Condition of the Navajo Indian Country, page 27

OS7000, 8 bit, 400 dpi, 8,260,000 bytesThe irrigating ditch should have a race and head gate. The race should be made 2 feet by 2 feet by 200 feet, of boards from Government sawmill 20 miles distant. It should run from 150 feet inside of embankment to 20 feet outside, where the gate should be made to regulate the flow. The ditch is 5 miles long, 3 feet wide at the bottom, 5 feet wide at the top, and 3 feet deep, and will irrigate 1,000 acres or more, if water is sufficient. The ditch is in firm soil except for 1,000 feet at the head, where loose soil and bowlders occur. It rained six days while I was at Cotton's, and although the lake had been dry, it had 8 inches of water in it after the rain. From this point I returned to Fort Wingate, camping at Defiance and Gallup. I would recommend that all Navajos digging and walling up their wells be furnished with a hand-pump and lumber for troughs. While wind pumps would no doubt give plenty of water, yet they require constant attention, oiling, etc. I therefore recommend the converting of springs into wells and draining them by siphons. In all my recommendations for work, material can be hauled in wagons from the railroad down the entire length of the Chin Lee Valley to every spring mentioned. I have no doubt there are other springs on my part of the reservation, but with the Navajos being unwilling to tell me the whereabouts of water, I had to hunt for it myself with the above results.Respectfully submitted.E. M. SUPLEE,Second Lieutenant, Second Cavalry.FORT WINGATE, N. MEX., November 17, 1892.Camps are marked down on Powell's map (number in red). Numbers in parenthesis black indicate area where good grass is now; not used on account of lack of water.Where windmills are recommended there is throughout a gentle slope, and with a little labor irrigation might be taught to Navajos-provided the bore wells are furnishing enough water-which I believe they will.Memorandum of cost of ""bore wells"" worked by ""windmills"" at Gallup, N. Mex.Cost of boring 300 feet, at $2 per foot .......... $600 Four casings, 65 cents per foot (300 feet) .......... 195 2-inch pipe, 18 cents per foot .......... 54 100 barrels tank iron .......... 150 Windmill .......... 125 Brass barrel and valve .......... 5 Derrick steel, 35 feet high .......... 100 Sucker rods, 10 cents per foot .......... 30 Total .......... $1,259Add one-third for incidentals. Days.Time required to put up derrick .......... 2 Bore, 30 days ( 300 feet) .......... 30 Put up windmill .......... 14 Total .......... 46 Information received from C. S. McIntyre, Gallup, N. Mex., who believes that he will strike water at from 200 to 300 feet anywhere on reservation. Indian names of certain springs and places. Marked 12, Tsa-yee-hat-chong. Marked T, Tsa-yee-hoyt-sho. Creek at camp 7, Tut-chin-leen. Creek at camp 9, fluming South: Tees-an-tit. Spring at 13, Ho-wass-sa-han. Springs at 14, Tsa-tsa-k-ha-ta. Springs at 15, Tsa-tsil-tso, also Big Oak Spring. Nolan's store on Sau Juan, Ro-ekas-suss-e. Gilette's store on San Juan, Na-shay. Store in Bluff City, Kinch-lan-hay. Camp 16, Creek Bluff City, Thee-pen-ta. Spring R, Kas-ka-da. 1 S. Spring, Badger Spring