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Show NOTES FROM WASHINGTON Through the construction of a dam and modern fish ladders, the Piute Indians of Pyramid Lake Reservation near Reno, Nevada, Nev-ada, will conserve a vital food supply, protect their soil resource resour-ce and restore a sportsman's par- adise threatened with extinction. Eastern tourists and sportsman and he large transiet population of Reno have for many years visited vis-ited Pyramid Lake, one of the beauty spots of the West. This traffinc has been an important source of ' Indian income, which I otherwise has been seriously i threatened by years of draught. Because of thne progress made by the United States Government in its effort to place its native ; Indian population on a basis of increasing self-support, a com-, prehensive survey is now being made on the Indian reservations of Arizona and New Mexico on behalf of the government of Arabia. Ara-bia. K. S. Twitchell, who is making mak-ing the surver, will report his j findings in detail to King Ibn Saud of Arabia as a means of assisting as-sisting the Arabian Government to profit by -the experience of the United States in the development and conservation of natural resources re-sources and improving the conditions con-ditions of native peoples. Continuing its expansion of soil and moisture conservation work on public lands, the Depar-ment Depar-ment of the Interior announced approval of 17 projects areas on Indian Reservations in the Western West-ern states. Spreading out across 10 million acres in 11 States, the increased action program on Indian In-dian Reservation lands, brings the passing of another milepost in the rapidly advancing soil and moisture conservation activity of the Department of the Interion. These new projects will be located lo-cated on Indian Reservations in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho, and Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. : |