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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 31 The expense of road work on other reservations was ,met from the regular support appropriation, the largest amount belng expended at Crow, Mont., and Uintah and Ouray, Utah. Indian labor is largely employed, which assists in their support to this extent. THE FEDERAL WATER POWER ACT. A number of applications have been filed under the Federal water omer act of June 10, 1920, the provisions of which, it is believe$, will give greater encouragement to water po-we: devel-opment. Careful attention has been given to the subject with such preliminary work as has been practicable, and it is expected that defimte progress will be made during the commg year. METALLIFEROUS MINERALS. Operations under section 26 of the act of June 30, 1919 '(41 Stat. L., 31), while still in their infancy, promise a good income to the Indians. A rich silver mine has been discovered on the San Juan Reservation in New Mexico. A number of good wpper prospects have been covered on some of the reservations. The most im-portant and most promising claims are robably those located on asbestos deposits in the San Carlos and &rt Apache Indian Reser-vations in Arizona. Judging from the known field it is by no means improbable that the values will run very high, so as to brlng many thousands of dollars in royalties to the Indians. The Indian appropriation act of Mzrch 3, 1921, contained an amendment to section 26 of the act of June 30,1919, supra, directing that wherever the term "metalliferous " occurs in said acq of June 30, 1919, it shall be defined and construed to Include magnesite, ,gypsum, limestone, and asbestos. The amendment is a legislative mnterpre-tation of the word LLmetalliferous," and inasmuch as it has been considered that magnesite, gypsum, limestone, and asbestos were nonrnetallife~ousm inerals,,the amendment so f a r as authorizing the mining of these minerals is concerned is retroactive to the date of the original act of June 30, 1919, and validates mining locations covering such minerals made prior to March 3,1921. PUEBLO INDIAN PROBLEM. The condition of the Pueblos with respect to their land titles and , the encroachment of smatters is one that has nroved verv trouble-some in the past. Last year a plan was formulated whereby the Department of Justice is to -cooperate with the special attorney appointed for the Pueblos in removin-g treswassers and auieting the title of the Indians A - to their lands-. A number of suits had been filed, somequite recently, not only for the purpose indicated but to determine the right of the Indians who use water from irrig-a tion ditches which the whites have an- propriated. A The Attorney General of the United States has appointed an attorney to represent his office in the matter of Indian litigation, etc., who will have an office in Santa Fe, N. Mex. He has.been instructed |