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Show i II I I /State State / State to Act in Uintah UintahIndians UlntahIndians Indians ' ' Water VVater ClaimsAttempts Claims Olauns ClaimsAttempts ! Attempts will wilt be made by state stateomclals stateofficials stateofficials omclals officials to overcome the cause of ofa ofa ofa a dl dispute dLspute . ' pute between white and Indian Indianresidents Indianresidents Indianresidents residents of the Ulntal1 UtntahoBastn UintahsBasin tBasin < over overdivision overdivision overdivision division of the waters waLers of or the Du- Du Duchesne Duchesne Du-chesne Du chesne - - chesne Ulntah Uintah and Lake Fork riv riv- riv rivers rtv-ers rtv ers rtversThe - ers ersThe The Indian service persistently persistentlyhas persistentlyhft hft has < ; refused to allow al10w the state en- en engineer engineer en engineer - gineer to allocate the water and andha andhas andhas ha has ' ! maintained that the Indians Indianshave Indianshave Indianshave have superior claims The service serviceI servicehas servicehas servicehas has gone so 50 far as to contend that thatIndians thatIndians thatIndians I I ( Indians are art ' entitled to some of the thewater thewater water at"r atr ! " In the Moon Like proJect projectwhich projectwhich which h Ich v . was as built by the U S reelamatlon ree reelamatlon reclamatlon lamatlon bureau tor for the white far farmer farmers farmers farmersAt mer mers , > mersAt At a meeting Wednesday of last I ) | \ week \IIet'k IIet'k IIetk ' in the capltol capitol State Engineer EngineerT T H Humpherys Hunipherys assured a delega delegatlon delegation delegatton tlon tion from the Basin tha that t he would wouldmakt wouldi wouldmake wouldmake I / /makt makt make ' another attempt to al10cate allocate al10cateI al10catethe allocatethe allocatethe the water according to state law lawand lawand lawand and the attorney general gent-ral gent ral - s , > officeI omceI omce office omceproms'd officepromised promised prom\s'd prom s'd sd \ ( ' to back him up upMr upI I Mr Humpherys said If the In InIdlan Indian Indian dian service objects there thert " is 1s a like likeIIhood likelihood likellhood Idlan IIhood lihood that the dispute will w11l have to toi tobe tobe likeI I be settled ettled In the courts court , > The stat state stateengineer statrengineer " englnt'er englnter engineer ' said he would proceed proceedwith proceedwith proceedwith with the thl ' distribution d1.5trlbutlon d15trlbutlon . only If It the thewhite thewhite thewhite IIenglnt'er white water users make a request requestIn requestn in ( n writing and It was prom promised prom.sed \.sed .sed \ . that thatthis that.ithis thatithis ' . 1 thls this wO would ld be done ' v The delegation deJepUtm from the thll ' DIWn Basin DIWnwaa Basinwas Basinwaa I waa was headed by lL II . tj to . t , . . Allred JUlred , . pro pr prEldent , Eldent rider.t ridert ; . of the th " Moon Lake La t.a ta . e Water WaterU U . ' . e < . i -oslatlon oslatlon eoslatlon .Ctat.1on Ctat.1on Ctat1on ciaUon , - . ' : , . . , . Lsute tule Laute ' : ) GallOway Gallowaysecretary Gallowaysecretaryman's , , secretary-man secretary man : -man's man's mans - . ' " + g T r ard i\t'd i t'd td at'd atd \ ' ' Ray nay stay E EDUlman EDillman EDUlman Isecretuy.mfan"i Isecretuy.mfani Isecretuymfani DUlman Dillman attor"e attore actor"e actore " all aU ot of Roose- Roose Roosevt Roosev - . vt v- v vC vtribul vrlbul vC.ribut ' - . -rlbul rlbul -.ribut .ribut - - _ . -ribul ribul e |