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Show It might bo well, just at thia point, to note tho itches let 'r'emair.tained.faQt that same of the Government ditches are not being well maintained. This ia notably true of tho lower end of the Island Bitch, below Randlstt. At tho time I saw it, tho Ditch waa practically level fall of sand and grown up thickly with cattails. Hot a drop of water was In it and no water could get through it to be delivered to the lands undor it. To a lesser extent, other ditches ars clogged with sand and silt. Yet others have haa so much watar turned through them that they have become arroyos rather than irri^atiorJ^v ditches. The flow of vator haa hewn so hoavy aa to oau3a serious erosion cf tho sides and bottoms of the ditches. This -jas particularly true of some of tho ditches in the De«p Creois: country. Saccate from the ditches has becoma a real menace to tha Indian lands., This ia especially the case with tho Land iiiled - •• By Seepage.j^ t^xlch Ditch,, northwest of %ton*. Thero hundreds of acres of land practically had bean ruined for agricultural purposes by alienage from tho Ditch, whioh is duo, 1 understand, to an inordinate and wasteful Use of the water. 00O00 |