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Show Moon Lake Water Off icals Attend Important Meet Government Officials In Big Meeting Consent to Elimination of Agreement Clause Causing Long Stand-ing Stand-ing Friction February 20, H. L. Allred, Ray E. Dillman, James Lloyd, Oscar Nelson and Louie Gallo- .way left Roosevelt to attend a conference which had been ar- 1 ranged at the suggestion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to compose a point of disagreement disagree-ment responsible for the failure of the Moon Lake Project and the Uintah Indian project to consummate an agreement for the exchange of water, which has been written and pending since Jiyoo. The conference was held at the Bureau of Reclamation office in Denver, Colorado, and lasted three days, commencing February Febru-ary 21st. Superintendent Knute Hill and project manager, W. E. Kronquist from Ft. Duchesne, were the local Indian Bureau officials of-ficials who attended the conference. confer-ence. The officials of the Moon Lake project and Bureau of Reclamation, Reclam-ation, consented to the elimination elimin-ation from the agreement of the clause not acceptable to the Indian Ind-ian Bureau, and the adoption of a substitute clause suggested by the Indian Bureau officials. The Moon Lake Water Users' Association Associ-ation committee members, who attended the conference, while cognizant of the fact that a maj-1 or concession was made by the Association in the elimination of the clause which was stricken, they are, nevertheless, convinced convinc-ed that the solution arrived at for compromise is as satisfactory as can be expected, and consider the conference to have been successful. suc-cessful. . .t . rhe Agreement, as now written, writ-ten, must be approved by the commissioners of Indian Affairs and Reclamation, thence by U.S. Secretary of Interior before the Uintah Indian project officials are authorized to sign it. It is fully expected the agreement will be approved. |