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Show I I t- I REPORT 0? COUNCIL MEETING HELD IT 7JUITSR0CKS, UTAH, MARCH 15, 1915, Oil THE QUESTION 0? WHETHER THE INDIAN GRAZING RE5ER7E SHOULD 3S LEASED. SPEECHES BY THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE Supervisor Martin "When I first came to this agency last summer, James S. Murdock, a she9p man who had had a lease on the land in'the Lake Pork country, came into-the office and asked about renewing his lease on that land, and I looked at the correspondence that was on file there in, the office and read it all over and I found out from that correspondence that these Indians did not want to lease their land. We need to lease the allotted land An order to prove up on the water right, and the allotted land should be leased as fast as it can be unless you farm it yourselves, but the grazing ground, according to the letters in the office, the. Indians do not want to lease it, and I found that out by reading the letters and so I told Mr. Murdock at that time that I would not. renew any lease on that land to him or to anyone else. rlr .-••'• Crystal.', had a lease on the land over here and he ar.ked me twice in the summer to get a renewal on that lease, and I told him I thought it was the policy of the Department and the wishes of ty /• s yF tc " •_• - •"•' / |