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Show land irrigated, While the Indian who retains his allotment. cultivates it, make.3 it his home and has reached the ultimate aim of the Indian Bureau and "become self supporting ™ must _.s,ve added t$ the annual charge for maintenance, "an amount sufficient to pay back into the Treasury the cost cf the work done, suitable deductions baing made for the amounts received from the disposal of the lands within the former Uintah Reservation." (34 Stat., 375-376.) There will probably be no added charge to maintenance, pro-vided the ceded lands do not become liable for any more reimbursable appropriations; but why should the liability to the Government attach to the Indian allottee and not to the lands irrigated? There was but one first thing to do in September 1911, There is but one f irst thing to do today. Appoint a superintendent for these Indians. Those who have been in temporary charge are not resoonsible that appreciable results have not been accomplished. The nature of their detail permitted only the preservation of a status quo. The Indians have petitioned you for the appointment of an agent who shall be a resident of Utah. The Indian who secured the signers to this petition, Henry E. Harris, has -stated to us that he was induced to procure the A petition because a Utah man would have greater influence with the Utah delegation than a *nan who was not a resident |