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Show Cost cf to save the water for the larger allotments for a sum no larger than $300.00. Tha averajro cost of the subjugation 0 h . of thia raw land is $10.00 or 112.00 an acre, the coat varying from about $5.00 an acre up, as I have heretofore noted* Allotments of 160 acres, or 320 acres, thorsfore, possibly could not be reduced for the sum of $600.00, fixed as a maximum, by the regulations, for any one Indian. The sufjresticn which I made to y-uperintendsnt Xniials as to ths exchange, with a cash consideration as a medium, of a part of the land on Jomo of tha larger allotments will, if carried into effact, be greatly helpful to both ths Indians and the Superintendent; but some of tha 320 %sr? allotments yat will remain In their entirety to "bo subdued. They are too valuable, for tho most part, to justify the Indian Office and the D*partm$nt to permit the lapsing of the partial water right appurtenant to them. It follows, therefore, as a business proposition, that it ?ould be vrise to use $1,300.00 of the reimbursable money in ths subjuration of those A Part of V. isdem. lands. I desire,to make it clear that thia waiver of the regu- : 0 ;" •< lations will not apply to every allotment in the Uintah Basin, but only to the larger once where th® necesiity for the subjugation of the land is obvious, the land la jrood and the cost of r-sduction will net be unreasonable > In thia connection, Superintendent Kneale said: |