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Show to settle the Uncompahgres if they were ever to be provided with farming lands for homesteads in Utah, and that preparation for this arrangement should be made at once. Gome four or five families having already gone twenty miles above the eight mile point on the PuChesne, and located there without objection from the Uintah reservation Indians, I concluded it would be best to encourage others to follow them, and with the assistance of Lieut. L. M. Koehler of tho Oth. Cavalry, commenced a survey of the bottom lands of tho DuChesme as far up as the Uncompahgres had located; the result showing that by providing and maintaining seven main canals, water could be taken from the Duchesne and Uintah rivers(one canal from the oast side of the Uintah) sufficient to cover all lands from the twenty mile point named above, down to the confluence of the PuChesne with the Green river, estimated at SO, 000 acres at least; after adopting this plan I was able to obtain funds from the Department from time to time to continue this work. The canals or main ditches are provided with substantial head gates. The longest and most important of these canals was taken out from the DuChesne ten miles above the Bridge on t.ho Price rorxj; th' head gate lr: just above Xiero tho first > A A ?./.-,• , Uncompahgres located; it runs two mites below the Bridge ant X-.Z-A. the waste water flows to the river; it covers 16,000 acres of good agricultural land. Above tiie cor.fluer.ee of the PuChesne and Uintah rivers there aro now located twenty two families of the Uncompahgres. Tiie heads of these families have been supplied with |
