56TH CONGRESS, 2nd Session, SENATE, DOCUMENT No. 88. IRRIGATION FOR THE PIMA INDIANS----LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING COPY OF THAT PART OF THE REPORT OF INDIAN INSPECTOR WALTER H. GRAVES RELATING TO IRRIGATION FOR THE PIMA INDIANS.----January 14, 1901.--Ordered to be printed.----Department of the Interior, Washington, January 11, 1901. Sir: In compliance with your request of the 10th instant, I hand you herewith a copy of that part of the report of Indian Inspector Walter H. Graves of September 12, 1900, which relates to irrigation for the Pima Indians, which was referred to in my letter of December 3, 1900, on the same subject. Very respectfully, E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary. Hon. O. H. Platt,United States Senate.---Department of the Interior, United States Indian Service, Pima Indian Reservation, Ariz., September 12, 1900. Sir: In reference to your instructions of July 16, 1900, directing me to proceed to the Pima Indian Reservation in Arizona to ‘‘ascertain the feasibility of a limited system of irrigation by the construction of necessary ditches to take the water for the use of the Pima Indians from the reservoir proposed by the Geological Survey,’’ on the San Carlos Reservation or elsewhere along the Gila River, ‘‘in the event that Congress shall hereafter provide for its construction, * * * and prepare plans and specifications, with estimates of cost, of such ditches as may be necessary for limited irrigation and can be built for
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