Show I I I STARVING STAR VIN PIMA INDIANS On co a Prosperous and In Industrious Industrious Community p NOW NOSY DARREN BARREN i Its h the ri tile Ihl or the slid time h ot of tile Pour hundred years years ago according to the narrative of at that intrepid Spanish adventurer ge le Vaca the jor Ilor lion ol of southern Arizona now occupied by the Olin cHin IndIan reservatIon grew luxuriant crops of fruit and ond maize for forthe forthe the friendly Pima Ilma IndIans Indiana TillS ox ex them very er much os as they are tada today The They occupied the same sarno lands land as ut at present and were OUI farmers und Irrigators as they lIOn con continued UnuM to be for many years after atter the acquisition ot of Arizona b by the United States Stahl They have raised corn wheat pumpkins beans benn sorghum and ege tables In profusion The They have hae lived In small villages and ana held their lands In and they are expert x rt weavers of oC fine fino fabrics All Mi this has been bem tic ae through Irrigation by them before tile the discovery ot of the New World What la i the situation In thIs roaena tion today Those philanthropists who bewail the passing passIn ot of tile the American fI In Indian dlan dian may well turn tb their lr attention to the destitute condition ot of the tho Pima In diane brought about by the tue push puth ol of the white settler and the criminal Qt of tile the government Whose wards the tho In Indiana diana dlana are says ays the tho St Johns Aria Herald The have bRO always been bettO friends ot of the whites enemies ot Of the Apaches TIle They gave aid and succor to early white pioneers and their to te tepees pees were always open alen to II peaceable whites or Indians when hard hanl Pressed d dby by 1 tt savage toe toc It Is today their b boast that theIr hands have hae never neer been treen stained by the white mans blood It was these conditions that the they were joined about a ago b by bythe the who came WI as fugitives from th tb more powerful Yuma Vuma trIbe When the belligerent Apaches broke broko out upon the thc warpath the troops of at the United States often otten obtained sub hal aid and froth from the gen gentie Im tie Pimas their has haa been carrIed on entirely by Irrigation with water vater diverted from the Clia river The tribes have supported not only but ha have shared their worlds goods goode with tile the poorer IndiuM Indians to the south ot of thorn thom not by inn gatlon They h Ilave O learned readily nt at atthe the thc Indian and advance toward mod modern has hos been regarded ne aI one or of the encouraging features of at the Indian problem Dur During Ing the last 10 years their Irrigating life lite been taken away from them the are perforce lapsIng Into Indolence mIsery and vice Ice The fhe waters ot of tM the Gila above them have been diverted by white settlers and instead ot of waiving fields nelds ot of green the they now during the summer look out upon the tho dry parched earth Year at af after atten ten ter year or they plowed and sowe sowed l and irrigated their crops only to pee eo them wittier wither and die before maturity owing to lack of sufficient clent irrigatIon water In the dryer der months month A few tew who are locate at points where water appears In the dry bed ot of the GUll Cilia can still mature their crops others can eke eko out a abare abare bare existence b by hauling wood or other precarious employments tile the larger number are oro l becoming more or less dependent on charity or have hae degenerated into thieves and ag About oj 01 these Indians are do de dependent pendent on tile the lands ot of the reservation containIng areS acreS while the tho water supply In the Olla last year owing to use for tor lands aba abo has not been sum dent clent to irrigate acres belonging to the Indian Fully halt the crops ed have not produced enough for tor seed notwithstanding the great reat fertility ot the soil soli Two acres arre per lIer Indian of oC Irrl gated land has been shown b by corns com potent authority us 08 ample land for tor their use and ond comfort |