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Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 11,577,020 bytesMr. Hayden. Of which how much has already been appropriated? Mr. Reed. $400,000 is available up to June 30, this year, and I think that the bill finally carried, or does still read $200,000, or $250,000 for the next year. Mr. Hayden. All that you need to complete the main canal, the Pima lateral is about $100,000. Mr. Reed. About $100,000. The Ashurst-Hayden dam was completed within the estimate of $250,000. I think the expense estimated now is $248,000. Mr. Hayden. There is an existing canal system and laterals for the lands in private ownership and you contemplate no appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States to carry the water from the main canal to the land belonging to white people? They do that themselves? Mr. Reed. Yes; I was just coming to that. When we had this San Carlos feature staring us in the face we made contracts before the Ashurst-Hayden dam was constructed, before we began any operations we entered into a contract with all the white interests and in that, knowing that the system serving to some extent at the present time was there, and had been constructed by the people, we did not include the distributing system for the scheme at all. We left this out, believing that it would be more to the satisfaction of a greater number of people to construct and maintain and operate their own distributing system than for the Government to do it. On the Indian reservation there also is a system, but not in as good shape, that will require some repair, but I have no doubt if the water can be served in the main ditches that the Indians will be glad to furnish the labor necessary to build their sublateral system. So that those two items, which ordinarily enter into an irrigation project will be necessary but will not be a part of the Federal expenditure or activity. Mr. Hayden. Assuming that the San Carlos dam is built, and approximately 80,000 acres is irrigated, what amount of that acreage will be cultivated by the Indians themselves? I am speaking now of the Indian cultivation, not land to be leased by Indians but cultivated by the Indians. Mr. Reed. The Indians hold in the following ratio of the project as it stands to-day, 35-62--the ratio is 35 to 27; 35 and 27 is the ratio that they own. The Chairman. What does that mean? Let us get that clear. Mr. Reed. The flood-water project is assumed to serve 62,000 acres. Of that 62,000 acres the Indians have 35,000 and the whites 27,000. It is contemplated in working this scheme out that the Indians shall be allotted 10 acres for each individual. Mr. Hayden. Man, woman, and child? Mr. Reed. Man, woman, and child. That is, they shall be allotted water for that. Mr. Hayden. What is your estimate of the total acreage of land that can safely be supplied with water from the San Carlos Dam, Indian and white combined? Mr. Reed. The minimum amount, from the available records, would be at the beginning 80,000 acres