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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 11,595,088 bytes56TH CONGRESS, 1st Session, SENATE, DOCUMENT No. 304.IRRIGATION UPON THE PIMA INDIAN RESERVATION, ARIZ.-------LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING, IN RESPONSE TO RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF APRIL 9, 1900, A REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RELATIVE TO THE PROPOSED PLANS FOR IRRIGATION UPON THE PIMA INDIAN RESERVATION, ARIZ.----------------------April 21, 1900.--Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed.----------------Department of the Interior,Washington, April 20, 1900.Sir: I have the honor to be in receipt of Senate resolution of the 9th instant, calling for certain information respecting the proposed plans for irrigation upon the Pima Indian Reservation, Ariz. In reply I transmit a copy of a report, dated the 16th instant, from the Director of the Geological Survey,to whom the matter was referred for consideration, his Bureau having had charge of the work of investigating the subject of a water supply for the said reservation, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1898 (30 Stat., 571-594).I also transmit a copy of a report from the same official, dated March 13 last, upon a proposed amendment to H. R. 7433 (the Indian appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1901), offered by Senator Baker, appropriating $20,000 for continuing the work commenced under the aforesaid act of 1898.As H. R. 7433 has since passed both Houses of Congress, but without Senator Baker's amendment, it is thought proper to also transmit a copy of the last-mentioned communication for the information of the Senate as bearing upon the subject of the Senate's inquiry.Very respectfully, E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary. The President of the Senate