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Show judgement in favor or the ute Indians in the amount of #3,305,000. 7 On the same ratio, wnereoy the former fund produced individual shares of $610, this new fund, if accepted on the part of the govern-••", R ment, would, produce snares of about 'l-- 43.33. With the other share •>'••<•' added, eacn.Ute Indian would now have trust funds rignts to the - yf ,.' fy •'•••• • . w-" ••. > . - " . ' 3* ytk amount of aoout #itej63.'. 37'* '••?'< •.'••. r,'Rt' In addition to the foregoing wealth, there is due from.'the -sale of lands formerly belonging to this reservation a sum of" money un- '' t xnown to me, out whether in excess of the $700,000 used a>or irrigation construction I have no means of knowing. Then in audition to these trust funds, this tribe holds in reserve 250,vOO acres of. grazing lands, certain rights to timber on forest reserves rormed from the old reservation, and some timber and coal reserve lands. And still further, in carrying out treaty stipulations. Congress is no?/" appropriating annually for their support $53,740, applying to all the Ute bands. All these resources can well be estimated at $1700 to $1800 per oapita for the Indians or this tribe, in addition to their in-j* dividual allotments. w • A ... '. y / t ^A In view of all the conditions named above I recommend that congress be asked to make available a fund of #300,000, and;to be immediately available, to be used as the Secretary of the Interior , .v. • i " may direct in developing the lands allotted to these Indians or for their industrial upouilding, the amounts thus expended to bo charged/'' to the individual shares according to the amount expended on their :' ws individual holdings of lands or in the purchase of live stock, implements, seed, reed, buiiding3 material, etc.,to enable the allot- |