Arizona republican., 1910-11-25

there for the mules and other con veniences which such a party could find no other place in the immediate vicinity of Phoenix
 C. F. Harrington and F. A Far man are the chiefs of the two sur veying crews. Like MT. Dunnington and Mir. Bryan. Mir. Farman was formerly with the geological survey. Mir Harrington joined them after they began to survey Indian reserva- tions.
 The entire party is coming from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana. over two years were consumed in surveying that reservation.
 It was in 1907 that Mir. Cunning ton was transferred from the geolog- ical survey to the land office and de- tailed to conduct a survey of the Blac<feet reservation in Wyoming It was understood that the arrange ment was only temporary and that he would soon be transferred back to his own department. But after his work in the BIackfeet country was con cluded he was told to go to Oklahoma and survey a reservation there. From Oklahoma he was sent to Montana and from Montana to Arizona. It is beginning to look like he has a life time job ahead of him. It is probable that after he completes his work in this part of the country he will sur vey a portion of the White Mountain Apache reservation.
 Mir. Baldwin has been right with the surveyors all the time, making contour maps for the geological sur Vey This is d radical departure from the old system. Surveys were once made by one party and maps by an other James R Garfield made the change while he was secretary of the interior, in the interests of economy. Now one party does the work for merly done by two at d saving of nearly half only one typographical engineer is required for the two par ties under MT. Dunnington. Mir Baldwin fluctuates between the two.
 There has also been radical change in the system of surveying reports. Formerly d survey was made and plats and reports sent to Wash ington by the engineer in charge. There an almost unlimited amount of red tape was gone thruugh and before survey could be approved the work had to be inspected Now, when Mr. Dunnington sends his notes and plats to Washington, that ends the matter His work is official
 Much of Mir. Dunningtons work is necessarily performed at Washington. where he has an office and a corps of assistants. He expects to make several trips to Washington during the winter.
 Charles F.. Robin, allotting agent of the Indian service, will arrive about December 1 and cooperate with the surveyors. He will ascertain the number of Indians on the two reser- vations and from Mir Dunnington will to decide just how much irrigable and how much pasture" each indi-- vidusl Indian is entitled to.
 The Fort Peck reservation covers an immense area. Each Indian was allotted forty acres of bottom land. available for irrigation, 320 acres of pasture and from 212 to 20 acres of timber land. After all the allOtments had been made between five and six thousand 160-acre tracts of pasture land remained to be thrown open to white settlers.
 There is no timber land on either the Salt or Gila reservation. There will be some difficulty in determin ing which is irrigable and which non irrigable land. At the Fort Peck this was easy for that along the bot toms of the creeks and rivers could easily be irrigated while it was plain that that farther back. in the bench country could not be irrigated from any source.
 Here only a very small part of the reservations are under irrigation but practically all the land would be suit able for farming purposes if irrigated, being quite level and as fertile as any in the world. And there is no section of either reservation which may not, in the course of time, be brought un der irrigation. The water may be pumped or stored in reservoirs yet to be constructed.
 It has been left with Mir Dunning ton to decide which is irrigable and which on-irrigable land. He is not yet certain what kind of a ruling he will make. Arizona conditions seem to call for an entirely new classifica- tion. If he decides that only lands now under ditches already construct cd can be classed as irrigable, each individual may receive only few acres.
 As the surveyors progress with their work they will lay the land off in forty tracts but as they go along they will drive temporary stakes which will make it easy. in case the allotments are less than forty acres, to divide the land into tracts of ten. five or even two and one half acres.