1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



241 



IntheYakima Chief Engineer Newell 

 Valley. has directed that a care- 



ful investigation be 

 made of the Yakima Valley, with a view 

 of ascertaining if there is a feasible rec- 

 lamation project in that district. Res- 

 ident Engineer Noble, at Spokane, has 

 instructed Assistant Engineers Bliss and 

 Harley to begin a reconnaissance of the 

 valley and prepare a report upon the 

 physical conditions, the stream measure- 

 ments, and the available dam sites at the 

 proposed reservoirs at the head waters 

 of the Yakima River. 



Congressman Jones has been very 

 earnest in urging upon the Department 

 the importance of making this investi- 

 gation. 



Reclamation 

 of Central 

 Oregon. 



At the request of Sen- 

 ator Mitchell, a recon- 

 naissance party will pro- 

 ceed late in June to 

 make an investigation of the central 

 part of Lake county, Oregon, with a 

 view to ascertaining whether there is a 

 feasible location for the construction of 

 a large irrigation work by the govern- 

 ment. 



Senator Mitchell describes this district 

 as having a fine climate, where all ce- 

 reals, fruits, and vegetables that are 

 cultivated in any part of Oregon grow 

 abundantly, and where there is a large 

 body of fine agricultural land. The 

 Chewaucan River, which flows through 

 this section of the count} 7 , is reported to 

 furnish an ample supply for the recla- 

 mation of nearly, if not quite all of these 

 lands. 



It has been reported to Senator Mitch- 

 ell that reservoir sites can be secured to 

 hold the flood waters at different points 

 along the stream. As I^ake county has 

 contributed probably as much as any 

 other county in the state to the arid-land 

 fund, the citizens of that district are ex- 

 ceedingly anxious that this project shall 

 receive early consideration. 



Favor Chief Engineer Newell, 



Malheur of the U. S. Reclamation 



Project. Service, has received a 



letter from Ira S. Smith, 

 Vale, Oregon, President of the Malheur 



County Board of Trade, in which he as- 

 sures the Department that the citizens of 

 the valley are very enthusiastic over the 

 prospect of the early completion of the 

 Malheur Project. 



He states that they are ready and anx- 

 ious to assist in the adjustment of all ex- 

 isting water rights which are likely to 

 conflict with the government plans, and 

 offers to cooperate in every possible way 

 in order to secure the early commence- 

 ment of the government work. 



Public The Secretary of the In- 



Notice. terior has issued the fol- 



lowing public notice re- 

 garding lands embraced in the ceded 

 portions of the Crow Indian Reservation 

 in Montana : 



Warning is hereby given to all per- 

 sons against trespassing upon the ceded 

 portion, or any other portion, of the Crow 

 Indian Reservation, Montana. By act of 

 Congress approved April 27, [904 (Pub- 

 lic, No. 183), the agreement with the 

 Indians of said reservation, dated Au- 

 gust 14, 1899, providing for the cession 

 of the northern portion of their said res- 

 ervation, was ratified, with amendments, 

 and provision made for the manner of 

 the disposal of said land. It is provided 

 (i) that the survey and subdivision of 

 said ceded lands shall be completed 5(2) 

 that allotments of land shall be made to 

 the Indians residing on said ceded por- 

 tion, or, if they elect to remove to the 

 diminished reservation, that their im- 

 provements shall be appraised and sold; 

 and (3) that it shall be ascertained by 

 the Secretary of the Interior what feasi- 

 ble irrigation projects may be found 

 within said tract, and that the lands re- 

 quired for such projects shall be with- 

 drawn for reclamation and disposition 

 under the provisions of the reclamation 

 act of June 17, 1902. 



Thereafter, in accordance with the 

 provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, 

 the lands not withdrawn for such irriga- 

 tion projects, and not allotted or other- 

 wise disposed of, shall be opened to 

 settlement by proclamation of the Presi- 

 dent, "which proclamation shall pre- 

 scribe the manner in which these lands 

 may be settled upon, occupied, and en- 



