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Show the Reclamation Service. The cost of this project was $123,015.71 for the year. Navajo Reservation.-At Wheatfields Superintendent of Irrigation Robinson completed work on a small storage reservoir. The sum of $534 was expended on this project during the year. At Tuba the sum of $6,969.35 was expended in the construction of a loose rock diversion dam, a concrete head gate, and about 1,800 feet of new canal. The new work diverts water to the agency farm and to the lands f m e d by the Navajos, who have placed 150 acres under cultivation since construction staked. Four 12-inch wells haw been driven to bed rock at Leupp for the benefit of the school and for determining the feasibility of obtaining water for irrigation. The total cost was $3,904.66. CALIFORNIA (XISSION INDIANS). During the year work was prosecuted at Campo, Pechanga, Morongo, San Manuel, Soboba, and Cabazon reservations; also in sec. 30, T. 5 S., R. 7 E., San Bernardino meridian, the total expendi-ture being $25,547.99, of which amount the sum of $6,421.21 was paid for Indian labor. COLOBADO. Southern Ute (allotted).Si~rreysh ave been made for continuing construction work, and some little construction has been done during the year. Expenditures for the surveys and construction amount to $1,780.95. IDAHO. Fort f i l l project.-A total of $197,583.88 was expended on the constn~ction of the various features of this project, which are as follows: Extension and enlargement of the upper canal, laterals and minor concrete structures, reinforced concrete siphon, concrete head gates, and the Blackfoot dam. The amount paid for Indian labor during the year was $9,316.08. IUONTANA. Cvm Reservation.-The sum of $51,638.85 was expended on this project during the peal', $15,745.11 of which was paid for main-tenance. The amount paid for Indian labor and teams was $27,480.13. The chief new work performed was the extension of the agency canal and the construction of l a t e r~l su nder the Two Leggins and Big Horn canals. The irrigable land now under the various canala is estimated a t 89,340 ocres, of which 27,417 acres are irrigated. A large peroerrtage of the land irrigated is for the purpose of native hay only. |