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Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 12,253,268 bytessively that it is practical and that it would be profitable to build this dam, and that it should be built and this reservoir constructed. * * * "These facts seem to be well established--indeed, uncontroverted. ‘‘Your committee having found such things to exist, therefore recommend that the bill do pass and become a law at an early date.’’ The bill did not become a law, the chief objection to it being that up to that time Congress had not adopted the policy of providing for the irrigation of arid lands. An amendment to the Indian appropriation bill appropriating $100,000 for an investigation of the San Carlos dam site was defeated in the House on February 26, 1901, for the same reason. S. M. M'COWAN--In 1900 S. M. McCowan, superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School, said: "The Pima and Maricopa Tribes, practically inseparable, are located on the Gila Bend and Gila River and Salt River Reservations. Nearly the entire population is dependent upon the resources of the Gila River reservations for support, the others being small in area. The Pima have been an agricultural people from time immemorial, and are notably peaceable, industrious, and independent. During the last 10 years they have suffered greatly from scarcity of water. As a result, they have gradually fallen from a condition of independence and prosperity until they are practically on the verge of starvation, and are largely dependent upon Government rations for support. ‘‘The Gila River Reservation contains about 357,120 acres, of which it is estimated one-half would be cultivatable if it had a sufficient water supply. The soil is very fertile, but without irrigation is practically a desert. The Gila River has always been the source of water supply, and approximately 7,000 Indians are dependent upon it for their support.’’83 ENGINEERING INVESTIGATIONS--The report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1904 contains an extended account of the various attempts both of a legal and engineering nature that had been made with a view of increasing the water supply of the Pima Indians. I shall quote such parts of the report as are pertinent at this time: "Gila River (Pima) Reservation, Ariz.--The unfortunate condition of the Pima Indians on this reservation, owing to the scarcity of water for irrigation, has recently attracted such great attention and excited so much sympathy, especially in the official boards of the Presbyterian Church, which has long supported missions among the Pima, that I deem it advisable to make a somewhat lengthy statement of the efforts of this office to maintain the rights of the Indians and to devise some practicable method of increasing their supply of water. "October 7, 1895, this office recommended that the sum of $3,500 be set aside for the expense of an investigation by the Geological Survey, and Mr. Arthur P. Davis, hydrographer, was detailed No- -------------------83. Report of the Governor of Arizona, 133