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Contains letter and petition referring to the rights of the Pima IndiansOS7000 Zeutschel, 400 dpi, 8 bit,would be worth the cost of seven wells at about $10,000 per well, or, approximately, $70,000--a very nice snap for the whites, without counting the land and improvements. However, it is stated that even with this assured water supply there is not enough water at Gila Crossing for purposes of irrigation. This is undoubtedly true, and it is also true that there is seldom or never enough water for irrigation purposes anywhere, even under the reclamation system. That this natural supply of assured water at Gila Crossing could be augmented by means of pumped water there is no doubt, nor is there any doubt as to the feasibility of extending the transmission line to Gila Crossing. But the cost is said to be prohibitive--as much as $4,000 per mile, it has been stated. This is obviously not true, and certain officials of the Reclamation Service, who should and doubtless do know, and whose names can be given, state that the transmission line can be installed at a cost of $1,700 per mile. This estimate is nearer the truth, as will be apparent when it is known that the cost of the 40-foot towers which are used in constructing the transmission line strung between them cost but $50 apiece laid down at Mesa, Ariz., and the transmission wire is No. 6 cable, composed of three strands of hard drawn copper wire, twisted together. There are 16 of the said towers to the mile, and three strings of the said three-ply wire used between the said towers. In taking this line down to Gila Crossing, a transformer station would be required midway between the end of the present power line as far as it is now completed and the terminus at Gila Crossing. Allowing the cost of this transformer station to be $30,000 and the cost of the transmission line alone to be $1,700 per mile for 25 miles, this being about the distance from the end of the present power line to Gila Crossing, amounting to $42,500, it can be seen that the total cost of such transmission line would aggregate, approximately, $70,000. The supply of gravity water at Gila Crossing and at the Maricopa village some miles below it, which supply it is proposed the Indians should abandon in favor of pumped water at San Tan, has been shown, according to Mr. Code's figures, to be equal to the output of seven wells, at an estimated cost of $70,000, for which a transmission line might be installed to Gila Crossing. Seeing that it would cost approximately $70,000 to get as much pumped water at San Tan as now is running at Gila Crossing by force of gravity, why not expend this amount of money on an electric transmission line and augment the natural supply of water at Gila Crossing with three or four wells, seeing that this additional supply would cost no more to pump there than at San Tan. Another advantage, amounting in a few years to big figures, would be that there would be no electricity to buy at a cost of nearly 1 cent per killowatt hour for this natural gravity water nor any maintenance charges to keep up for the seven wells that would be required to produce an equal flow at San Tan. Moreover, in the case of pumped water, there is always danger of the permanent water plane of the country being lowered below the depth of the wells from various causes, thus necessitating the deepening of the wells at great additional expense, and perhaps at a very critical time for growing crops