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Show Tokanna C__ca -am allotment. From this point we returned directly to tha Agenoy, having covered during the day approximately 50 miles. A Long 0^ Tuesday, October 31st, Superintendent ^noala and I laft Trip. Fort Duchesne in an automobile, shortly after soven o'clock in the morning, gaingc. directly to "yton by way of the twon of Hoosevelt. ^yton is sixteen miles 3outhwest of Fort Duchesne, and Is ane of tho flourishing littlo cities In the Basin. Thara we picked up the Government District 7armer, George Elliott, and drove to the Indian allotments lying under the U. S. Dry Culoh <e-r. V Canal, In the valley of Laka Fork Hiver. Among the allotments we visited wa3 that <^T Secretary, a very progressive Indian. In thia territory, we went over a tract of 340 acres, comprising varicus allotments,which had been advertised for sale for a considerable period. i'any prospective settlors have viewed the land, but no SJRIB yet has been offacted. The land is of the heavy clay formation and lies in a aort of basin between tha irrigation canal and the Duchesne River. It happens, therefore, that the seepage frora the canal seeks its level on thia land, and, seemingly, has no outlst to the river. The result i.i that the land is practically continuously wot. It Land Ruined By Ss--'parrs, shows, too, a tremendous amount of alkali, which ,3-ivcs tho land the appearance of being covered with snow. It is not at 6 |