Show An Open Letter To The Owners Of Indian Land And Water On October a report was submitted by Darrell Superintendent of the Uintah-Ouray Indian Agency proposing that the rates for operation and maintenance of the Uintah Indian Irrigation project be raised from to per This report sets out certain information which the feel is highly speculative and not entirely We further feel that there are omitted from this report certain material facts which should be brought to the attention of the Water Users and the persons charged with establishing For that purpose we are entering a protest to what we consider a completely unjustified Some years when the laterals and ditches were being when checks and were being installed the water assessment was 40 cents per The initial construction was performed by men hired by water users from the locality where the work was to be Men reported to work at 8 a.m. and worked for an eight-hour The present employees report to Fort or and then report to the charging the for all time consumed in traveling to the project upon which they are to The trucks and cars of the association are used for transportation and frequently they spend only from four to six hours on the All ditch riders are furnished with paid and are paid for overtime by the irrigation Analysis of the time spent indicates that employment could be so arranged that five days a week by each ditch rider would accomplish all of the necessary A more efficient schedule could be provided whereby one ditch rider could service one ditch an the morning and ride back over another in the A survey of some operators of heavy equipment convinces us that much of the construction work now done could be completed at half the cost which we are now Some of the items listed in the such as increase in the cost of and we fell are inaccurately and that the percentage increases therein represented are not in line with actual Comparisons which we have made indicate that there have been no increases in this area on some of these items above the 1953 A conference with Senator Arthur V. who is with the irrigation problems in this convinces us that this project could be broken down into more economical His recommendation is that we make subdivisions of the present operation and operate them independently of each In this manner closer supervision of expenditures of each unit and substantial savings would be It was his suggestion to the irrigation service that the Association post a bond and operate certain designated This we agreed to but were then required to collect all the Indian Because of the rigid control which the Indian department has of the funds of the this requirement was not feasible to It is still our desire to operate designated units without the requirement of collecting from the Indians for their assessments which can be done through existing facilities within the There are currently acres in this project Approximately are lands which are not susceptible for profitable Taxes on these lands have been paid by grant from Approximately acres are owned by A negligible portion of this land is farmed directly by the Indians and the balance is to other The remaining acres are owned by who have no voice in the operation of the irrigation All of the where possible to employ are We are advised that a considerable portion of the Indian land has delinquent O. and M. charges which are equal to the value of the If this condition is allowed to these delinquent charges in offset the property We fell that it is unfair that the Non-Indians should not have a voice in effecting policies and operating the irrigation We are convinced that substantial savings can be made in administration and that more effective service can be and that proposed increases in rates can be averted by allowing all the land owners to We further believe that the federal government should represent the acreage under their which is that the individual Indians should represent their acreage of that the other fee owners be represented to the extent of their acreage and that the administration of the tion be constituted according to acreage INDIAN WATER USERS ASSOCIATION Floyd E. 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