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Show - g - » ' without permit, anu in certain instance* have wasted water' across allotments in such a way as to greatly damage the land. furthermore, much trouble ha__ been experienced through the tect that these white settlers, though holding the sub3equent right, appropriated water to their use, frequently leaving the Indian who holds prior right, without water when moat needed. Another serious depredation on the part of the white*-* is the practioe of running waste water into the ditches used by the Indians for domestic purposes. The soil is soluble ana easily erroded anu contains considerable alkali. It will readily be seen, therefore that waste water from the farms should not be returned to ditcies the water of which i:; being uJed for culinary purposes. 'Sndeavr has been ira.de oo Seek protection through the channel of tho U. S. Attorney, but the action ia so slow and usually so wide of the point that it seems useless to attempt redress In this manner. Cuzrming up thd situation -e find the following problems in connection with the Uintah Irrigation Project. 1st Tho necessity of cultivating 55,COO acres of Indian lands ^y 1919. 2d The necessity of cultivating, by sale or lease, of forty thousand acres of deceased Indian lands. 3d The proper restraint cf white settlers anu the protection of the Indians* rights. -;, AAA- • 7, .. AAA^YA-WAAWY 4th The renewal of practically all of the structures of tho system before the expiration of the six years. It is only possible to make a suggestion as to tha method >y which the cultivation of the land can be accomplished, an"- |» to the means by which existing unsatisfactory conditions can remedied. In the first place every possible means must be Jloyed to induce settlets to buy or lease Indian lands. To do |
