Deseret Evening News | 1906-03-08 | Page 2 | Water Rights on Uintah Reserve

WAH ATER RIGHTS ON ol UINTAH RESERVES Vf Senator Sutherland Introduces Amendment to Give Settlers Setlers the Right to Construct Canals ACROSS INDIAN FEED LANDS Without Consent of or Secretary of ot In Iii Interior II Appropriation for HI bubs A k kel l by h Senator Smoot lo to the th News tw Washington D C March S Sena Senator tor tar Sutherland today tod y offered an al amend amendment amendment ment to the Italian Indian appropriation bill bi which If I adopted wilt will wi settle set te the tho ques question question ues tion ton no on ni to the water rights of ot whitt settlers on 01 the Uintah reserve without reference to thu Interior Ir department Tho ho amendment grants grant without the tho reticent consent of t tbt i of at tho the Interi Interior or nn an 11 Ih right to to con construct construct and amil maintain necessary net cesarY ditches diches and canaLs across Indian grazing lands In Uintah reserve reGenO Senior Smoot favors It and und Senator Sutherland Is hopeful of oC success Ucc ss In securing Its adoption Inas Inasmuch much us as r the proposition Is does docs not In Involve volvo volve a 0 dollar tolar of at expense It has ta a better chance than an amendment requiring an al appropriation Senator Benator Smoot this afternoon roon Intro Introduced lace 1 nn am amendment to the same name bill hi which proposes proposed an appropriation of oC 10 0 COO to be b Immediately available I for tor tho purpose of or purchasing n a tract of oC land In southern Utah on which to lo establish the Indians It I In is II proposed ulso also to supply them with animals and implements Implements ments rentA for tor farming arming purposes There aro am only emily 74 jt members of at the tribe surviving