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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 9,511,264 bytesinsurance afforded by the stored water, and like the original farmer, are assessed, in addition, for the remainder of the project, whichc benefited the large land speculators alone. The water rights decreed to these Indians by court were likewise juggled into the reservoir without their being consulted or recompensed. Among the canals taken over by the Reclamation Service was the Consolidated or Chandler Canal, also called the Meas Canal. This canal was about 30 miles long and was constructed to convince the Interior Department that Chandler's ‘‘dummies’’ were actually reclaiming; that is, watering the lands they had fraudulently entered. When this had been accomplished and title to the land secured, the canal was allowed to run down. When the Reclamation Service came there were from 4 to 5 feet of sand and numerous trees and other obstructions in the ditch. One bank had been washed away for a distance of nearly a mile and a half near the intake, and it was hardly possible to travel along the banks. Hill the engineer in charge of the reclamation project, negotiated with Chandler to purchase this so-called canal. He testified before us that he and Chandler estimated the cost of digging a similar ditch at $187, and Chandler was paid this sum. Reclamation reports show it cost $100,000 to put the canal in repair. When repaired, it served to reclaim the very lands of which the Government had been defrauded. Also Hill permitted Chandler to reserve a power site at which power is developed to operate pumps which supply additional water for Chandler's use. Hill also gave Chandler a contract similar to that given to other large land speculators, by which the Government of the United States, in effect, guarantees to deliver water to such persons as Chandler may induce to settle upon 160 acre tracts or less. This action was taken by Hill in spite of the fact that many small farmers on the south side of the river, who for years have been compelled to pay assessments to the water users' association, are refused water by the Reclamation Service. In short, the ‘‘dummy’’ system by which Chandler fraudulently acquired title to lands now irrigated by the Government, is again in process to get the water. The reclamation act limits the amount of water which any one user may purchase to 160 acres, but by giving a deed to a ‘‘dummy’’ and having that dummy in turn execute a mortgage to Chandler for the full selling price or more, the law is evaded, and one individual thus receives sufficient water to irrigate many thousands of acres. The secretary of the interior has ruled that it is clear that a corporation otherwise competent is entitles to take water under the statute. This opens the door for any three persons to incorporate any number of companies, each of which may secure water for 160 acres of land, and thus destroys the purpose of the act. It might be claimed that because of the requirement of actual, bona fide residence on or occupancy of the land irrigated a corporation could not secure water under the law, but First Assistant Secretary Adams nullified this provision by holding that any landholder residing within a radius of 50 miles is an occupant residing in the vicinity thereof. These two holdings destroy the restrictions as to residence and as the number of acres for which a person may obtain water. The severest critics and opponents of this law were not reckless enough to anticipate such rulings on the part of the department