Weekly journal-miner., 1910-05-18
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 M'DOWELL 7O8|
 <. VACATED
 Reported Indians WI Be Moved to An. other Tract Abandonment to TatI Place When Crops Harvested
(FSsm SaturdAy's Daily,

tr5sm SesuToAys Daily)
 According to reliable reports vI,a have reached this city, the ah..a. ment of the Fort Mcdowell I,a,, reservation and the removal of II, 300 Indians thereon to the Salt Ri,- reservation, will occur immed,.d after the summer crops are hsv,dI says the Phoenix Gazette.
 It has for some time been mt. of common knowledge taat ,A. x Dowell reservation was to be sS,,, oned because of the diaicul,y of mi, taining a dam in the Verde river divert irrigation water upon the i,u of the redskins. It is underss, that the reclamation service snd h dian bureau have agreed that tk h dians should be removed witAou, ,u unnecessary delay.
 The floods in the Verde river ,s tinue to wash out the brush d, which the Indians throw acfos s stream. To build an adequate ssss dam would cost many thousands dollars, SO 1t has been decided place the Indians on the Salt ErI reservation, where they will be tws ished with a scady and reliable vsu supply from the Arizona canal. n water rights of the Indians in Verde has been cancelled and they q given rights under the Arizosa ssl instead. This merely means that Indians take the water lower dssu The farmers of the valley are DO, | fected.
 For year or two the Indian reau and the Reclamation Service Ass been working out the details of Ii arrangement, and it is now usds stood that they have agreed p every point. Superintendent c Goodman of the Phoenix Indian xlss who has taken a leading part ia q negotiations. stated this morning ~ he had received no information hd the time of removal had been dehra ly settled, but thought it quite pnl able that some action had been tifs in regard to the matter. SupenX tendent c. F.. Coe of the MeDOvs reservation, is expected to arrive Phoenix in two or three days, ana will be acquainted with the laies velopments.
 The Fort Mcdowell Indian 'Ss vation was established six years It is ten miles square and 500 n' are under cultivation. It is erpe' that this will all be thrown n into the public domain, but 1" u will be no water available, for irrigation, this will not benefit settler, though the land is as ." any in the world for agricultural poses
 William Gill was largely iis'' mental in having the reservation tablished. He was a missinonaV found it exceedingly difficult to ps'' the word to a few scattered rall' who were roaming over the hl' wild as mountain sneep. A nun of settlers along the Verde we" possessed when the land was se' VI for A reservation. Among these Deputy Sheriff Jeff Adams.
 There are now about 300 lha at Mcdowell. Most of them are yeApaches and few are ia
 Gill was the first agent at M'p ell. About two years ago nc succeeded by MT. Coe, who stiil the position. ,l
 In 1893 the military post o' McDowell, one of the most imP@ in the Territory, during the J days, was abandoned. These p' ings are now used by the age" school teacher.
 General Adna K. Chafee, wno in command at McDowell whn' captain, long used the agents as his headquarters, and the te''. house was for several months pied by General Leonard Wooa ua lie also a school house and store at McDowell. All the sv" mont buildings will he dismanu"