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Show '\i Uintah A/'on, U rr igatIon fro j o c t, ah, January if, 1925, i I r; j J. 0 3 I.Lr. C. A. ^ngla, supervising Hnginser', Blackfoot, Idaho. four latter of January 10, 1925, enclosing lottara from the Indian Office received. and .ilfonah mdiana has bean In answer to tha Indians letter I will give a brief account of the vatar situation on the project ":nd particularly on tha Daks fork canal, under which these Indiana are located, for Ana season of 1924. The fact ti amount of snow on tha mountains in the soring of 1924 foretold a ahortaiga of water for tha sa ..son. In anticipation cf this shortage tha project canals vers all put on rotation schedules and tha duty of water fixad ar, 2.24 acre feat for landr. in the higher altitudes, to bedi3tributad on a variable schedule as follows; \ Day 1 '»" ]_]_ " g ]_ J Una I July I AOft. 1 - .fay 1* !t J una July j> T» AUg. it 3 3Dt^- 10 20 51 50 10 21 51 10 21 .30 130 155 9 5 90 lib 155 155 17.5 19 5 2C0 icres to second foot In addition to thia vuter v-.a daliverea throughout October and part of dovembar. i'hi3 waa ample for all lands at tha altitude of altonah and on ovsry traot on whioh every turn of water -was applied thern was no shorta_>a of crops. ictically ail the Indiana on anas reservation r farms early in July to attend the sun uanca ahaeat for from two to thrsa left the i rt ,/hit-.rrocka, end warn iks. ju.: ring this time their i'vads ,7^re not .'Altered extra water to his of course and viv^n they returned homo they wanted make up for the period thay "were away, could not be dona for tha water waa being delivered cn schedule and other wat-r users could not ba deprived or their burns to suplly these Indiana 'with entra water. |
