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Show - 5 - inches of wator to and upon divors and extonsivo tracts of land, aggregating in amouht about 30,000 acres, and raised upon said lands crops of grain, grass and vogotablos. And ovor since 1889 and July, 1898, tho Unitod States and tho Indians havo divortod and used tho wators of the rivor in tho mannor and for the purpooos mentioned, and tho United States "has been onablod by moans thoroof to train, oncourago and accustom largo numbers of Indians rosidinp upon tho said reservation to habits of industry and to promote their civilization and improvement." It is allogod with detail that all of the waters of tho river are necessary for all thoso purposos and the pur-poros for Vhioh tho reservation was created, and that in furthering and advancing tho civilization and improvement of the Indians, and to oncourago habits of industry and thrift among them, it is essential and necessary that all of the waters of the river flow down the channel uninterruptedly and undiminished in quantity and undctoriatcd in quality. It is allogod that "notwithstanding tho riparian and othor rights" of tho Unitod fltatoo and tho Indians to tho uninterrupted flow of tho wators of the rivor. the defendants, in tho yoar 1900, wrongfully ontorod upon tho rivor and its tributaries above tho points of tho divoreion of the. waters of tho river by tho United States and the Indians, built largo and substantial dams and roscrvoirs, and by means of canals and ditches and waterways have divortod the wators of tho rivor from its channel, and havo deprivod tho Unitted States and tho |
