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Show I) representatives of the Government came to your house and persuaded you to move to Utah and persuaded you to use your influence with the other members of your tribe in order that they might also be moved to Utah, and that these representatives of the Government premised you that the Government would provide for you in your new location a more cooifortable home than the home you deserted. As I say, I do not know that this is true becan.se I never liave heard you speak about it". The old lady answered as follows: "You have heard the truth. I did liave a good home. I was told by the representatives of the Government that if I cane to this country I would be given a home better than the home I was abandoning-. Lly people were made the same promise that they would be given good lands and that water would he placed on their lands. Uone of these promises liave been kept. I and ray people ..ere located for the most part on "'/hite River and on the bottoms of the lowerJjhche3ne, and these lands are desert lands today. The Government has oade no effort to place water on them. Believing the promises of the representatives of the Government, that they would, nut water on these lands, I built for myself a house on my allotment and sat down there waiting for the .vator, but the water did no'.: come. This was many years ago, aod the .vater has not been placed there yet and it appears that there is no oros-pect of its being placed there ooon. Some oC ray people |