Show o oVALUE 0 VALUE OF CROPS RAISED BY DY UTE INDA INDIANS S IS t The commissioner cf ot Indian affairs In in his annual report discussing Irrigation Irrl irrigation gation gallon on this Indian reservation has hns the following comments to make The controversy over water rights in the Uintah valley I fc still pending before the district court for tor the state stat of Utah a decision In the m matter no not I yet having been handed down In the meantime a satisfactory division of the water between between between be be- tween the Indians and the whites Is being beng made through a water awater commissioner commissIoner commis- commis appointed by the court Large areas of or land within this were opened to entry years year ago It Is la lathe the settlers on these lands who are arenow arenow arenow now contesting the prior right of the Indians to sufficient water unter for their needs In the entire district there I are some acres s under irrIgation irrigation Irrigation tion being an an Increase of acres over last year This sens an increase of or over 30 per cent The value of the cro crops s raised by the Indians themselves exceeded eded 96 95 Some Som acres iJ within this this this' reservation were cultivated during the past year roes by lessees I of Indian land and acres by the r Indians Increase of ot themselves an I over acres The principal r crops clops are alfalfa grain gran potatoes potato s and I sugar beets the aggregate value or of orth ortho th the tho crops raised on this project durIns during during dur dur- ing Ins the year exceeding A number of or difficulties hamper the tIle most successful operation of ot this system The canals an and ditches constructed constructed constructed con con- years ago are not of sufficient sum sum- I lent cleat grade and carrying capacity t tc toj serve the area ly to be gated I |