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Show A Condition Not Justified - 70 - I3SUE OF PA.U SlACHinST. Tha investigation which I made into tho agricultural operations of th© Indiana in the Uintah Basin, diaolosod, quite v.... •• y • '• •••..} incidantally, a condition of affairs that I cannot conceive to be justified.-.:']"' fyf . Kw A trifle over five months after Kajor Kneale became Super-i , . , . t . .. intondent of the Uintah and Curay Agency, he received a letter from tha Indian Offioe, under data of liny IS, 1915, directing him to prepare a li3t of agricultural Implements needed by tho Indians in his jurisdiction and ta submit it to tho Indian. Office, tha purchases to be made through the VJarehcusea. Els :>,, .. A. • attention was called, in tho latter, to a provision of the Treaty of 1'arch 2, 1863, which was in effect that each Ute family was entitled to free issue of seeds and implements whenever it bo^an to cultivate Its allotment. This instruction was so entirely foreign to what Superintendent Knsale conceived to be the needs of tho Indians in the Uintah Basin that, under date of June 8, 1915, he replied: > - }• •< ' . , •-, o- ..Oo ,.' y'i: .i y.."-., , ,,,.,,. A Pernicious ••' •% W ' I'have ,tho honor to advise that in my opin- i . . ii Proposition.) ' l°n ^i 9 application of such provision to tho \ Indiana of this Reservation would have a perni-oious effect* ' , i1' '" . ' • ' ' <ii ' - , . P A 0, . _; '. These Indians had ^ecn taught that they must pay for all se-sd-i and Lzalsssxis ihsy c'c-tsdzufi ir'js. , the commissary, just the same as if they purchased then from dealers. now, whon they expect to pay for the supplies, for this office to change ita |