Show com VATER SITUATION OF INTHE BASI R N I 1 t aw J jackson i 1 1 egils 9 a letter I 1 wrote td ito ON willfam H king with reter refer aa images claimed by lessees lessels and utah apr aar 25 1921 ILY ii wllliam 11 king all I 1 angton ton D C editor Ne king belayed the information de arning the complaints of r ieves lessels lessees of certain indian damages ac hortage of water and later to because I 1 bill had been withdrawn withdraw y lien aen were all given a royalty tang the land and most of ipa e furnished tile the seed free I 1 oi of them ever paid a cent ie beef one old man near my aly dill 41 jn so 80 of adobe ground with zt re RM emall horses to do the work ol of course threw up the to etc call california fornia and died fas asks ks for him noir near independence pur 0 had 30 or 40 acres put tap twp ohp Z first year with plenty 1 bul a change in the chan Dry gulch submerged about place next year and noth aliee 1410 was done ile he asks 11 i damages or nearly double land cost him should damm cial E on account ot of too much g guess hess another man near h kiesne esne still on the job pre r atell aground fg round well asks only a fellow up near the W jat at loka as asks ks astruck ps truck a placer mine any ne fl citations may be sufficient nee ace you that nothing short shon potent pe tent commission withrow se i depositions of farmers rf ky employees employee s right here on sch kh ot of grou ground nd or a trial lija ever hope to award the what they deserve or col lages of the worst foi tor tail fall J tj amply with their contracts ling as Ms muddle Is to the aid as disappointing as it Is orty men themselves as well ther the department employing 4 JJ Is IB not a drop in the ocean ws va that awalt await about one vh bona fide settlers unless induce the government who ii here to come to our rescue AW byich h our water interests into simon system ir prears ears ago as the time drew apro on water vater the ad oil put far forth th every possible 5 p tring bring all available indian j tier der derwacter water tor for final proof and bs his time tie the worst t drought 9 ewt anand n ind the dett settlers dettmers lers were shut lEhti and notified noti fled there ther ewas was no was us since that time the company has ex 11 11 diore ore than ten thousand dol lavi arid and junkets to salt inythe nd ithe interior department at I 1 gan onry to find out that callable val lable drop of water in any gehad been hied filed on ahead of bahat that was proving insufficient or ahe the indian lands 1 ii ars and until this great koput 1 put all indian lands under t was launched everything 10 ell 11 our own great Dry gulch canals and ditches W here oe other water kater compan L re organized organic ed and everybody 0 o work to subdue this ilias wilder noss ness build homes make roads organize schools and churches run out oui bootleggers break up gambling and civilize the indians as we fel felt t our count rys call required we should do and no ie are still paying all the taxes nobody can ever make us believe the now sainted roosevelt and congress ever intended we sh should tie be run over and run out by the department in the interest of the indians for whom we were induced by our count rys call t to come here to save therefore in the name of Dry gulch bona fide settlers and others in smallen companies we ask you while considering si the claims tor for damages of forty men engaged in a little speculation ula tion to consider the higher moral claims of one thousand real homesteaders ste aders within the area of our company whose losses a million would not cover not to give us money no our people dont want that but a loan on condition condl tion that we all get together under one general management merit into say two districts one the uintah the other the Lake tork fork to include all indians and white people within this field and let us go to work and store water sufficient to irrigate every acre of available land in this field tor for there is plenty ot of it going to waste every year to do this our people have at great expense gone to work and fled filed on vaste aaste water storage sites and spent irk in a spasmodic effort to harness moon aloon lake and the dam went out two winters ago following the drought the seft settlers lers all bankrupted themselves buying feed from lessee and indians to keep the best stock alive and therefore are unable to proceed alone with any adequate storage system and in this appeal to you and through you to the congress my iny dear senator let me assure you I 1 have the backing not only of 0 every settler in this uintah indian reservation but the very best men in the indian adlan service here and ana every engineer of note that knows anything of the situation and last but not least ot of senator reed Sti smoot loot who in a recent letter to me sala said 1 I believe myself that there must be something done there to take care of the waste water and I 1 am sure it will have to be done dane before the country cart can be built up permanently I 1 am lylly aware of the hardships the early settlers passed through they were influenced by our government to go there and make homes and it no one had undertaken to redeem the lands in that reservation they would bein be in ln just the same condition as they were a quarter of 0 a century ago abw now while senator king has ills his hands full trying to settle a tuss fuss between the indian service and forty lessees lessels who are claiming damages on account of a shortage of water let lei me suggest that settlers all over the reservation write to senator smoot urging him to prepare a bill and ana with the help ot of king colton and all secure the passage of ot same looking to the consolidation of all our water interests and also a loan from the government sufficient to build reservoirs to store water for every acre ot of land in this territory then the war will be over and indians and whites hites will all prosper and be 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