Show t tW ff W Work ork of Construction 7 Period is 15 Completed L Ninety Thousand Acres in Uinta Project Watered at Average of 8 S an Acre re Cheapest Irrigated Tract of Indian Land in the United States Supt H. H C. C Means who V Worked on the First Government Reclamation Project Resigns to Become Actively Identified With Myton n and Reservation h The rhe construction period of the work ot of the Uinta Indi Indian n r e survey is a matter of history From rota now on or at least until the White river project is commenced com coin only a a maintenance r force orce will win be kept here and will be in charge of what is Jk known lOwn as a maintenance en- en y l This Thic situation t therefore tl h er e f Q o r e meant to H. H C C. Means the present superintendent of irrigation gation on U that he lie must either submit to a transfer to some ome other point as headquarters therebY thereby making it t impossible for him to tD keep in close touch r with ith the growth and development develop develop- r c ment 0 of f tl this section or r resign u from front from the go government ser service ic I I Aft After r twenty years jears of continuous con con- r. r service he has chosen the the latter His r resignation is isto is isI isto isto to to take lake effect on ou the first of the I I r I s. s coming mont month h This Tl This country country coun coun- tn try r said he be t to the Record has bas a bett r outlook than any ither r I 1 know of in the west est Rather than be he transferred to some tome other point J where it i would be impossible for a close nt ct with the growth gro of the thee e Reservation and with m my own t r ha have c d cl l to sever seyer my connections volt ith the government o t S 1 consider ton Myton the logical enter of the country and have havea a ec r e interested to o a large 4 nt here and I shall shaH become lely Y ely engaged in the buildup build build- up up of the town and corn corn- 3 unit Mr 1 Ir r. r Means will open an office officer 1 ii r r 11 1 Myton to look after irrigation y p tatters matters and to exercise person- person l 1 supervision over the inter- inter I he has acquired in the r own and country x The lute retiring superintendents superintendent's lis tory is closely ery linked with Government irrigation i in 1 the vest vest est In fact as a boy of fifteen te ie a worked as a chain carrier in n 1 lie r 1 survey w work rk on the Crow in 1891 which was iH he first irr irrigation work ever 1 by the government l his is t first n t government i 1 project eventually e cost I Sam a million dollars eight hirty acres acre's of I and nd were e irrigated It was lie he b beginning of tho expendi- expendi r E rue are ure of the millions that have ince been spent not only in It c H I. I Ian work but in an any ream re- re lain am ion tion undertaking At that irne Indians knew absolute absolute- c L nothing of manual I 1 labor a b o 0 r r. r ore lore re than that they did not are tre to learn When the Ins In- In 7 ians hats s were requested to work 1 n the Crow Cron project the bucks sit sid 1 labor a b 0 r beneath hem rem would send the squaws h ut t with the t teams ams The rhe Cr Crow row w P nb b was largely a n matter at r of to the Indians in bowing howing them how to wo work k nd it itras T ras as S not lon long until the they the E 1 ick k more kindly to it The C Crow ow project was under J r the supervision of V V. V H. H Graves Gray Grav I es a n noted ted irrigation engineer and one known as an ap exi expert rt illa in ill ina a all I 1 I 1 irrigation matters M N r r. r Graves W was 5 appointed irrigation I tion inspector rand and W. W B. B Hill still con conne nested ted with the Indian irrigation him loin Mr lr Means succeeded Mr l Hillin Hillin Hill fIill in charge of the engineering in 1898 and arid was connected with the Crow work in that capacity 3 when he took a furlough furlough fur fur- lough of ofa a year and a half to engineer the building of a large irrigation system in Montana owned by private individuals one of of whom was Senator Carter Carter- After the completion of the tem he returned system to I IIo Io government service taking charge e of the preliminary rn in i n a r y r surveys on the Cheyenne res I In the e spring of 1905 I he ie was transferred to the Uinta reservation where the got goA ern- ern nent had j just st started to make preliminary surveys surreys preparatory preparatory preparatory tory to filing on water for the theIn In hin I lands He Ife Ife's was s engineer engineer er I in n charge of this work until the thc spring of 1906 1900 at which time he ie was appointed superintend superintend- superintendent ent of irrigation in the Indian service again succeeding V. B. B Hill who has just been ap aJ- appointed ap- ap pointed assistant chief engineer of all the Indian irrigation work in n the west The construction of this system has been carried earned on under his direct supervision since that time He has also during that period period period peri peri- od had under his supervision the irrigation irrig projects projects' at Shoshone Shoshone Sho- Sho shone Wyo similar to the Uinta in magnitude and also the irrigation work on the Crow a and n d Cheyenne reservations Besides he has frequently been detailed for special investigation t tion on and and reports on projects in iU connection with lith th the Indian ser vice pice The Uinta irrigation system systems is s one of the largest larg st in the United States It consists of twenty separate canals a and n nd d there here is between four four and and five hundred miles of canals and mid main laterals Wi which ich have pe been heen constructed since the work begau berau be- be gnu gau in 1900 1906 In the project t there were acres of land covered in the thc original Of this this' approximately acres ha have e been provided provid pro I ed with canals and aud lateral systems The Thc con construction work has been carried on ors to such an nu extent exten t that tha l every forty acres of I this immense tract can now be supplied with water i have ha 1 h been en expended expended expended ex ex- in the construction of this system under Mr r Means Mean's supervision The land has been watered at an average a cost of 8 per ac acre e which is unusual in irrigation projects built by bythe bythe bythe the government Fifty or sixty dollars is very common where the soil i is no better in many cases not as goody than here on onI I the thc Re Reservation And it is not Ian an occurrence occurrence to tt have the cost exceed an acre The cost cost keep now now nov being heinA used used us us- ed d on all Indian ati rL projects pro pro- in to the United States was devised worked out and perfected perfected per per- d on this Reservation before before before be be- fore bein being installed on other projects It was through l the retiring superintendents superintendent's recommendation recommendation recommend recommend- mend mend- that Myton became the h e a 3 for the Uinta survey which which h up ii ip to the fall falI of 1911 pad had been at Fort Du- Du chesne Charles Davis acting Indian agent has been iri instructed by bythe bythe bythe the department to receive the government property from Mr Nr Means l and he will disburse the funds for the irrig irrigation tion work in I connection with hi his agency There will probably be no change made in the personnel onnel of or the present nt survey force fora |