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Show ' A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, Uintah & Ouray Agency, Whiterocks, Utah. June 15, 1905. The Secretary of the Interior Washington, B. C. Sir: On the 13th instant I mailed to the State Engineer seven (7) applications for water rights on behalf of the Uintah and White River Ute Indians. The proposed canals head on White-rocks, Uintah, and Lake Pork creeks and v/ill cover an area of over forty thousand acres. We v/ill soon send in the application for the Buchesne later on will forward those on Green and White Rivers. We have been laboring with the White River Utes for the past week and held a council with them on the 10th Inst., which was not encouraging. They made a demand for 150 acres . of fanning land for each Indian, and upon being pressed to make their selections of allotments they requested an adjournment until Monday the 12th inst. We gave them a beef issue for the following Sunday feast, and Captain Hall promised to begin payment of their "grass money" on the 12th inst. A large crowd of Indians were at the Agency on this latter date and the prospects were good for a well attended council, which we desired. At the appointed hour in the afternoon, however |