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Show i canal would be dry, without any water whatever, on the first day of Jul;/. He based his prediction on tho fact that YJhat the it had boon dry on that date during prev- Supsrintendent Bid. ious yoar3. lie advised further that this dry condition WDuld continue throughout tha months of July and August. I tcok up the matter immediately with tho Indian Offioe with tha result that a T.'aier Commissioner' waa appointed by tho County fcr the month in tthich w© might expect a shortage of wator during the season of 1915. The Sater Commissioner *ot on the job too late, and there was a period of, porhapa, two or three wook3 in July, 1315, when the U» _?< _*iry Gylch canal carriad no -»ator whatever- Curing that time, there va3 a great shortage of r.ater in tha Redcap canal. Tho sa.-2e condition obtained in the Oovernniont canals having intakes at the lower end of the Uintah River, vis: tho Bort Buchosno canal and the Henry Jin. oanal. Ctopa wero taken immediately by the authorities in Washington to provont a recurrence of this condition during the season in 131(3. Aa a result of those stops, an order waa issued by tho United States District Court, oarly In July, 1913, restraining all water usara on the lake Fork Ri7or and the Uintah River froa using any water until cur canaia wore carrying tho amount necessary to irrigate the lands that were being cultivated 7/hite ater Users thereunder. These water users, for tho Defiant. moat part, in fact, practically all of them, noglcctod to obey tho restraining ordor, and, consequently, thera was a period of ten days or two weeks in July of thi3 yeor,i during which tho canals nanod were either entirely without water,or short of water,:much to the detriment cf Uto Indian lsnds being handled either by Indians or by losaees. Tha companies on -jshlch' this restraining ardor was 133-jed finally decided to obey tho ordor, and from that time on, cur canals ; . |