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Show (V . 5 Sducation-Industries. T BB.7 : ' • / r vJ '.'•''''• £2sniI_!_;l-.-.-l' ; ' There are 249,340 acres of land under this jurisdiction,' of which 99,407 acres have been allotted to 1284 Indians. An irrigation project has b8en constructed at an estimated cost of $862,260.78, - 82,112 acres of land now• being under ditoh. Up to December 1, 1914, the Indians had brought under cultivation 6147 __cres, and lessees cultivated 7,113 acres or a total of 13,260 acres, thus leaving £"8,852 acres of land now actually under ditoh but not cultivated. Under present conditions, this. land.must all be brought under cultivation and beneficial use ma.de of the v/ater by July, 'ry, 1919, else there i3 danger of forfeiture.of the valuable water-rights attached to tha land, as fully set forth below. The Act of. June 21, 1906 (34 Stats. 1. 375), provides, in.';,-'.; part, as follows; • For constructing irrigation systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Tjtes in Utah, the limit of cost of which ia hereby, fixed at six hundred thousand dollars, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars which shall be immediately available, the cost of said entire worlc to be reimbursed from, the proceeds of the sale of .the lands v/ithin the former Uintah Reservation: Provided, that such irrigation systems shall be constructed and'completed and'held .y_nTTipera"i;e d", she. water tnarefor ap'propriaUeo. under the Maws ofTITe 3tate of Utah. |
