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Show -5- to her it was understood that the Government would soon build an irrigation ditoh and place water on the land. Ahe water was filed upon, but no effort as yet lias been made to put the -vat er on the land, The house that Chipeta built on her allotment lias long been deserted and is falling into decay. Chipeta and her brother McCook reside for the greater part of the year in the mountains on Bitter Creek where they have their sheep and. cattle:. They have close to 1,000 head of sheep and something like 100 head of cattle. They are careful people; thoughtful people. Rue lands that she refers to as being on the bottoms of the lower Duchesne are desert lands. They were allotted to the Indians and the Indians built a little ditch by means of which they placed most of their bottom lands under cultivation. This ditch is now a "hi .-h-water" ditch as she says, owing to the fact that rA.ny canals take out water from the river at points above, and consequently the wator is so low in the river at the point of intake of this ditch that for years it has been impossible to get wat er In the ditch during irrigation season. There are "too or three thousand acres of land in this locality which was allotted to these Indians', and filings wero ra.de for the water in 190,5. A ditch .vas started and soma oork was done thereon, with the intention of wat er'ing these la .ids. Thia ditch is Ino-wn as the Henry Jim Ditch, but it his never been |
