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Show fWork will vary soon commence on the Duohesne River and you should all work on these canals. You will be paid for this work at the same rates at whitemen if you will do tho same amount of work. I bollevo that many of you can do fully the amount of work that white men can do and i am very anxious to see you start in. It is very ' important that you cultivate your lands so that they will be Tof . value to you, rr~ that in /the future when .you are too old to work you vill have something which will bring you a living. / I want you. to understand however, about tho water for your land. I ( The water is yours now, but you/cannot keep it unless you put it on your land. You have about five years to do this in and at the dnd this of sasju: tirneVi-f your land is completely irrigated, the water will be yo'irs permanently unless you fail to culivate your land for a period of seven years. It may be that you are unable to work your land yourself, in that event you should lease it. In this way it will bring you in income, which if you are sick or too old to work will give you some tiling to buy the necessary artciles of food and clothing. You cannot sell your .own land now like white men. It is yours and no oho can take it from you, yet you cannot use it only for your own benefit. If,howevor, an Indian shows a capacity to handle his own affairs and gives indication thai", is ability and intelligence are such that he should be given a title to his land ("Fee Patent"), lie will be placed on the same basis an any white man so far as his land is concenred. (Hairy questions were asked by the Indians relative to this mat i-,or and explanations given so as to make the condition thorough ly understood.!! There are too, among you many old Indians and. norm sick ones who night be better n££. have the money for a portion or all of of their land in order that they might obtain a benefit there from during their life time. This will bo permitted and and any such |