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Show I - 63 - A part of the allotment might be reduced, at great labor and expense, but tha,amount of land possible to rsclaim would not -; pay for tha time and money expended upon it. If: _, ' w In respect of this allotment, I suggested to Superintend-ij vi s _L _n & s 3 *ent Kneale that it be sold for such'reasonable sum as might be offered for it and the proceeds of the sale used to acquire other and more desirable land for the allottee, it being p3rfect-ly patent that he could do nothing with the present allotment. Thia transaction would be, substantially, an exchange, with a cash consideration as the medium. Such an arrangement would be particular 1;/ advantageous to the Indiana, and would, likewise, greatly facilitate Superintendent Kneale13 work. In the Uintah Easin are, approximately, 39 allotments of 320 acres each. *^any of them can be made fine agricultural lands, but, manifestly, no single Indian can handle 320 acres of irrigated land. I suggested, in connection with the proposed exchange of some of these Very rough allotments with a cash censideration aa a medium, that ' these 320 aore allottees might dispose of aorce of thoir land, to .0 : ' • '.::P f.-o their own advantage, to their less fortunate brethren. :Qr -,•_.,„ i„< s Superintendent Xneale regarded the su^geeticn as excellent /.ie-.v of It. and believed that It could bo worked out to a very great advantage. In addition to the advantage such a transaction would be to the Indiana concerned in it, it would greatly facilitate the efforts |