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Show DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE UintphA Ouray Indian A.wncy, • Fo11 Du chte rre, Utah. rfavember l8,191o> ; CoiurJi^F.ioro-r of Indian /ffairn, Wn'shingt cfh.j, D.C. '.sir: , Receipt if- acknoVirl edgr-d -of Offioo letter of November tenth trangralt-tingva proposed form.'of pgree-mefrt with the Gurry Volley Irrigation Company nnd BSJCJPS * ! ' . my opinion as to the ndyifiability of Entering into cuch on agreement v.'it.h them. / The proposed, form'hafl b/on gone over with i - , / . some Oo _ End it if ce-rA-inly fci/wi ciently drastic 7 / Lo protect the interests oS tho Indian., provided itf, terms con l.,i. rigidly enforcoA *- p The fact ic that tp friction wfyich^haf* thus far resulted from ad.-ni/ting companies of white men to; poquirr- rights in <ur ditches nnd Btreoms has reoult-o.Y fro... our ir7i'ity to prevent them-from exceeding their rightr -n *r'}-.in/.T water from the streams fit time of low vmte' tliun dep£ivih£ the Indian lands-of the legal r;vov;;nce, oven though thp letter had the prior foil A T here h.ifi been no method in Vogue' - tc force thF to .'recognize our rights unlea.s force, were re so A'-''1 to r'n'i these compnnier of White men have riorply o^H-doz^d the Irrigation f-ervioi., tho agency A f'r*| o3th. le^rep ;:nd Indinnr nnd hnv I tpken r...ch • |