Condition of the Navajo Indian Country, page 32

OS7000, 8 bit, 400 dpi, 8,260,000 bytesthe ""wash"" of the creek are two water holes, which one man can clean out thoroughly in one day; that a water trough should be provided for the use of stock at that point; that good corn is produced about two miles below this place on the creek or ""wash,"" and that here again facilities are offered for irrigation; that at No. 17 is a very small alkali creek, on the south bank of which and one-third of a mile up the ca±on is a small, somewhat alkaline spring; that a day's labor will be sufficient to dig this out, which will probably increase the flow sufficiently to water 500 head of sheep, the water in the creek being muddy; and that about half a mile still farther north on the north side of a hill is another spring very alkaline, which should also be cleaned out and rendered suitable for stock-watering purposes.Sheep Spring, still farther to the north, is defined as a well-known spring and camping place, where the Navajos have built several stone and adobe houses and constructed two small reservoirs for the purpose of holding water, which can be deepened and improved by constructing a low wall of rock and mud on the lower side of the same, making a reservoir large enough for all possible needs; labor required, one man four days.Sulphur Spring is located almost due north of Sheep Spring, and between these two points Lieut. Brown states that two bore or artesian wells should be established at the places marked on the map referred to; that the former is a well-known camping place and was once the location of the Chaco Indian trading store, the building of which still stands; that the spring, quite strongly impregnated with sulphur, flows at the rate of about 5 ounces per second; that it would be well to build a 2-foot wall there, which would require the labor of one man for three days; that, if the wall is well built and proper means taken for carrying away the sulphur water, a trough will not be needed; that there is sufficient water at that point to irrigate several acres of ground in the valley below, but that for some reason it has not been utilized in this manner, probably because there is no wood to be had nearer than the mountains; that about a mile northwest of Sulphur Spring are two other fine sulphur springs, indicated on Powell's map; that a few hours' work would be sufficient to clean out the one to the west and make it a suitable drinking place for stock; that the other spring or springs--there being several of them--have a much greater flow, enough to irrigate several acres of ground where the Indians disposed to take advantage of the same, scarcity of wood being probably the reason why the do not do so.The lieutenant states that Chaco River was found to be dry, but that there is plenty of water in its bed at a depth of from three to five feet, which occasionally appears at the surface; that the river bed is from 20 to 200 yards wide, while the valley itself is in places a mile wide; that the latter contains so much fertile land that it is thought that soundings might to advantage be made to determine the practicability of irrigation there by means of submerged dams; that at No. 20 (Powell's map), along the east side of Hog Back, is another very fair sulphur spring, and not several miles, as the said map indicates; that search was made for the water holes in the Bad Lands near No. 19, but that they could not be found, finding instead thereon several fine veins of coal in that locality; that, while he did not visit the extreme eastern portion of the reservation, inquiry developed the fact that the regio