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Show UINTAH BUI SUfiW HE Party Studies Problems Relating Re-lating to Irrigation and Soil. Profesfor O. W". Ipraclsen, ;n ci;arge of irrigathn Invetlg-ations at the experiment experi-ment station of the Utah Agricultural coIIckc; Mr. L. M. Winpor. In charge of irrigation in vst iRations In Utah for the United States department of agriculture, and Prof. John Caine. III., director of the extension di iyion of the Agricultural j colic ge. have returned from the Uintah basin, where they went to study some of the problems of the Irrigators of that j flection. Thfy were accompanied by Pr. I I K iv Jennings, in charge of soli surveys I for the cxp'-riment station, who went for the puriio.se of luakmg a preliminary ! Kolotci''al rcon nals.'.ii.'e of tiie area in i connect ion with the soil survey work of the mate w ht.-h is being conducted In cooperation with th bureau of polls of j th l"n it cd States department of agri- culture. I one qusti.n at Ifpuo in the basin, ac-! ac-! cording to Prof. l?raelnen. is the very Important ono of state supervision of wHt'T rights. For th last two years th" waters of Lake Fork, Uintah, and j White Kock crocks have been divided between the lands allotted to th Indiana In-diana by tho United States and the lands obtained by homestead and other entries by white settlers under tho jurisdiction of i t lie ferif ral court of this district. The United Slates Indian service claims the j United States, in allotting lands to the Indiums, roervod sufficient water to Irrigate Ir-rigate these landn. w hereas t he pen t ers assert tbM all water richts arc subject tii the supervision of the ptnte and are d-' pendent on priority of appropriation. Tlio authorities who visited the district are not yet ready to express an opinion hh to the outcome of this important issue. is-sue. Some important Items pointed out to the irrigators of the Uintah basin by the aut horit les were the neoesslt y of s!or1n the flood waters and the con- i solid.-) i ion of the miiiij- small Irncut ion companies that are nt present found In this section. The pi lor wnter filings of I (he Indian lands alone call fur more than the entire supply of these streams dur- I ing the low season. I |