Show Im DISPUTE r T OVER V INDIAN INmAN WAT WATER RI RIGHTS HT I IS NO State Engineer and Others Return From the Capital I Where Practice in Utah Was Declared in Error T THE PHE HE contention of Indian IndianA 1 A officials in the Uinta basin with regard to dead Indian lands carrying with them an inherent water right regardless of the state regulations that the water must be put put- putto to a beneficiary use has been based on error Cato Sells United States commissioner of ot Indian affairs declares according to George F. F McGonagle McGonagle Mc Mc- Gonagle state engineer who returned Thursday from prom Washl Washington after a conference with the Indian depart depart- ment P Present sent at th the conference be besides besides be- be i sides Commissioner Sells Sens and Mr McGonagle McGonagle Mc- Mc McGonagle Gonagle were Governor Simon Bamberger Bamberger Bamberger Bam- Bam berger former Senator Don B. B Colton Mayor Bracken en of ot Roosevelt and BIshop Bishop Bishop Bish BIsh- op Wilkinson WATER RIGHT SOLD Commissioner Sells sens was informed that the Indian department here had sold acres of land originally al allotted allotted al- al I to who have since died and no effort at improvement of the theland theland theland land had been made This land the local lo local local lo- lo cal Indian officials claim carries an inherent water right which was sold with the land The claim of ot the government government government gov gov- Mr Sells Sens stated is that the theland theland theland land originally carried a water right but when the title passes pases from the government the lands become subject to the state regulations and must be put to beneficial use He advised the committee to return to Utah and draw up a stipulation the stipulation the kind they desired and and submit it to him JOINT RESERVOIRS Mr Sells stated that his department would consider favorably an agreement with white settlers of the basin for the construction of pf Joint reservoirs to store water Expenditures of ot the government to July 1 1920 will total in instead instead instead in- in stead of ot the original estimates es estimates estimates es- es Senator Reed Smoot vice chairman of the committee on appropriations appropriations appropriations I of t the e senate said according to Mr McGonagle There are more persons employed by the government in Washington now than during the war Senator Smoot Is said to have as as- as |