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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 9,542,288 bytesshould they be made to pay for their own funeral? Notwithstanding their protests, Code and his force persisted until more than a half a million dollars was thus spent in work disastrous to the Indians and valuable only to land grabbers. The Indians were to be allotted 5 acres each on which to make their homes and living, although the farm area in that region varies from 80 to 160 acres. The total area of the reservation is in excess of 357,000 acres if the land is not sold for the pumps. Having forced the pumps on the Indians, their next step was to load them down with the expenses of operation. Early in 1907 a contract was prepared and executed by the Interior Department with the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association. In preparing this, Code represented the Indians Hill, the Reclamation Service; and Joseph H. Kibbey, a Phoenix attorney who had been a governor of Arizona Territory, appeared for the water users. How the Indians were represented appears best from the contract itself, dated June 3, 1907, and signed by James Rudolph Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, by B. A. Fowler, president, and Frank H. Parker, secretary. The contract recites, in effect, that the Reclamation Service is engaged in constructing the Salt River project; that there will be developed and utilized a large amount of electric power; that the Government is desirous of supplying to the Gila Reservation water for 10,000 acres of land; and that, to accomplish this, 1,000 horsepower of the electric power generated in the Salt River project should be transmitted to the north boundary of said reservation; that the Government is desirous that the Indians shall ultimately become members of the association; that it realizes that they can not do so until they have become owners in fee in severalty of the lands occupied by them; that the sum of $300,000 (of the total of $540,000) has been appropriated by Congress to construct works or otherwise supply irrigation for the Indian lands, and that $100,000 of said sum is immediately available. After the above recitals the contract provides that the Government (meaning the Reclamation Service) shall construct a transmission line to the north boundary of the Indian reservation and transmit by means of the same 1,000 horsepower out of the excess power not needed by the members of the water users' association, as its membership is or may afterwards be constituted, the said power to be used to pump water for irrigation; that the Indians shall pay for the transmission line necessary to receive and transmit this power to the pumps; that the Government (meaning the Indian Bureau) shall forthwith pay to the Reclamation Service the $100,000 available, which shall be credited to the Indian Bureau as a payment on the cost of irrigation works for the Indians and to the water users' association on account of the cost of construction of the Salt River project; that the 10,000 acres of land to be so irrigated shall in consideration therefor be further assessed until the total charge equals that of any other lands in the Salt River project, the further assessment to be paid in 10 annual installments the same as the white farmers are expected to make payment for the project. The proportionate cost of repairs, renewals, betterments, maintenance, and operation of the Roosevelt Reservoir, power canals, house, machinery, appliances, transmission lines, and all other parts of said Salt River project shal