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Show Efforts will be continued during the current year to supply these reservations. Navaho.-On the Navaho Reservation the sum of $29,936.04 was expended for repairs and further development, of which $9,132.14 was paid for Indian labor and teams. Plans for the proposed Hogback .ditch from the San Juan River were approved, but construction work was not begun; $15,639.21 was expended on bridges, hauling of mate-rials, etc., and it is expected that the work will begin early in the fiscal year 1910. The approved plans include the construction of a ditch about 123 miles long, with a capacity of 100 second-feet., There will be under the ditch about 3,900 acres of irrigable land, with the pos-sibility of further extensions. The estimated cost of the work is approximately $100,000. Pueblos.-At Taos a small ditch was oonstructed, if miles long bringing 840 acres under irrigation. The Santa Clara ditch was repaired, and a part of it whioh was subjkt to damage at every - period of high water was replaced. A small, rock-filled dam was ' built at Paraje. Other investigations were made, but no construc-tion work done. Total cost of this work was $5,026.56, of which .+2,176.99 was paid for Indian labor and teams. Tongue River.=$2'7,278.33 was expended on the Tongue River system during the year, of which $10,111.39 was paid for Indian labor and teams. The cost of the system to date has been $88,783.96. It is estimated that the oonstruction work will be completed by October 31, 1909, and that 1,200 acres will be reclaimed. This system has been very costly, considering the acreage to be irrigated. Uintah.-The total cost of the Uintah system to the end of the fiscal year 1909 was $524,132.42, and there are 65,720 aores under (ditch, with an irrigable area of 98,360 acres. $137,497.80 was expended during the fiscal year; of which $6,015.50 was paid for Indian labor and teams. Walker River.-There has been expended on the system now under construction on the Walker River Reservation the sum of $53,738.05, of which $31,287.81 was disbursed during the past heal year; of the latter amount, $19,183.20 was paid for Indian labor and teams. 830 acres are now under ditch. It-has been estimated that $25,000. additional will be needed to complete the work, and that this prob-sbly can be done before the close of the calendar year 1910. Wind River.-$103,458.93 was expended on the Wind River project during the year. Fifteen milesof mainditchand 31.8 milesof laterals were constructed. 10,998 acres were brought under the main ditch and 10,509 under the laterals. $31,051.19 was paid for Indian teams and labor. 40,559.3 acres are now under ditch, with a total irrigable area of 63,657.3 acres. During the year effort was made to lease the 1ndin.n lands under ditch, with the result that at the end of the year |