Show CONTROVERSY OVER DITCH PROF MEAD OF WYOMING WILL HELP SETTLE IT Ho Will Examine Irrigation Works on Fort Hall Reserve for Interior Bureau and Report TRIBUNE BUREAU n 601 Fourteenth Street V Washington DJ C Jan 1 1901 Prof Elwood Mead of Cheyenne Wyo expert Jn charge of Irrigation experiments for the Agricultural department de-partment reached here today and will remain several 1 months While here he will have charge of the issuance the various reports based upon the fieldwork field-work of his business during the past year i Secretary Hitchcock has requested the Secretary of Agriculture to accord the Department of the Interior Prof I Meads services In helping to straighten out 0 controversy over ditch construc tion In Idaho The controversy is between the Interior I In-terior department and the Idaho Canal company The canal company In IfiOC contracted to build for the Government an Irrigation canal to supply water to the Fort Hal reservation Indians The canal was completed last year but the department haswithheld final payment of 20000 for alleged nonfulflllment of contract In accordance with Secre tarj Hitchcocks request ProfTttead wlll examine tho Irrigation works and prepare a report to be used as a basis for further action by the Government PROSPECTING ON She S-he subcommittee on Indian Affairs In the Senate today adopted an amendment amend-ment to the Indian appropriation bill proposec by Senator Stewart of Nevada Ne-vada providing that prospectors and miners shall be allowed to prospect and mine within Indian reservations under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior POSTMASTER APPOINTED Orvill L Thompson has been appointed appoint-ed postmaster at Sclplo Millard county moved coun-ty Utah vice Thomas Memmott re |