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Show -9-D O dollars in constructing dams, ditches and reservoirs, and in improving said lands, building fencos, and other structures, establishing schools and constructing highways and othor improvements, usually had and enjoyed in a oivilized oommunity, and that the only supply of water to irrigate tho lands is from .".ilk River, if defendants are deprived of tho wators their lands can-ot bo succo3ofully cultivated, and they will become usoleeo and homos oannot bo maintainod thereon. That thoro aro other lands within tho watershed of the Milk River and its tributaries and depondont upon its waters for irrigation upon which large numbers of porsons havo sottlod land under tho laws/of the United Statos and aro irrigating and cultivating the same by moans of said waters, and have a.isistod the defendants "in establishing a civilised oomrrunity in said country and in building and maintaining churches, schools, villages and other oloments and accompaniments of civilisation; that said communities consist of thousands of people, and if the claims of the United :;tatos and tho Indians bo maintained, tho lands of the defendants and tho other settlers will be rendered valueless, the said conrunitios will bo broken up and the purpose and object of tho Government in opening said lands Cor nottlemont will bo wholly dofoutod." It is all.god that there are a large number of springs on tho reservation and several streams from which water can be obtained for stock and irrigation purposes, and particul-.rly these; People's creek, flowing about 1,0^0 inehos of water; Big horn Creek, flowing about 1,000 inches; lodge Pole Creek, flowing |
