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Show (COPY) Department of Justice Y' Office of ' United States Attorney, District of Utah. Gait Lake City, hovember 4, 1900. The Attorney-General, AA A .'•-•//•.'. .,\ y<y.A i/rti.c.-.v ,;.P> ' . / A - V/ashing ton, D. C. fj7 r j g •,;; "*;; '-' • ' cj., *' ' '"" " ""'*' _ . sir: '":," ""9 ii 2y y In reply to your letter of October 30th, with reference to the acticn taken by this office to protect the interests of the Indians' water rights upon what was formerly the Uintah Indian Reservation, a-yainst the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company, permit me to advise you that, in compliance with your instructions of July 10, 190 7., at which time it appeared." that the Dry Gu.ch Irrigation Company was proceeding to construct a certain canal over and across Indian allotments without having theretofore procured any right of way for such canal "by condemnation proceedings or otherwise, I filed a suit in the United states circuit court for the district of Utah, seeking to eject the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company from the Indian allotments affected. This complaint was filed August 15, 19Q7. Subsequently the defendants demurred, and later filed an amended demurrer, which demurrers were overruled' by th "i court Jununry 70, 1908. Shortly after the su.it was fi.tcd in il :•. U.D.circu. it ' court the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company, we were informed, discontinued any further effort to construct their canal over the rands affected and assured this office, and the Indian Agent at Whiterocks, Utah, o f their willingness to cease operations until they had proceeded in the proper |
