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Show 44 - Tho next allotmant we passed was that of Charley Travis, an . Indian, who had three or four hundred tone of hay in stacks. Ho lives- in a two-room log hou3« with a shingle roof. Tie passed several houses of this oharacter i y .'.'.• : before we reached Handlett. At Handlett, we crossed tha Uintah River on a dilapi- 'Baneficial Use'' dated bridge and returned to tho Agenoy on the east side of the of the , at ;r. river. On this return trip we saw several allotments on i which beneficial use of water had bean made. T.e passed the heme of Dick ft'ash, Indian, consisting of a two-room log house with a shingle roof,, several stacks of hay and a good barr£) At practically ever/ place we visited *e saw chickens, turkeys and some barn-yard ducks. On Monday, we started out early in a buckboard behind a span of mules, proceed in cr directly to Handlett. Thon we draws to the residence of the District Farmer, Hugh Cwena, Hr. Owens, on a saddle horse, accompanied ua. Wc proceeded in a southeasterly direction to the Duchesne Hiver; crossed the river to the island; oroased.the rivor again from the .ands cn island, and vent down the Laland Canal to th** allotment of Lei and 'ar.ai. J Wamiore, on the low»r end of the canal. After viewing the allotments lhider th* Laland Ditoh, we retraced a portion of our journey, ana proceeded up the Duchesne River to a point three |