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Attorney-General which relieved them
from these payments. More recently.
the question arose as to the validity
of the waite rights on the reservation.
Mr. Mondell was Instrumental in Sc
curing the Indian Office the Is
suance OF certificates II water rights.
He has been very actively engaged in
urging cooperative action by the state
n federal authorities whereby water
rights on the reservation shall be
finally established and clearly de-
fined. and under which settlers on the
reservation may secure without ques-
uon loans from the Federal Land
Banks.
Wyoming Public Buildings.
When Mr.. Mondell was first elected
to Congress, Wyoming. with nearly a
hundred thousand square miles aud
scores of thriving and ambitious
towns, did not have a single federal
public building. To-day nearly every
Important town in the state Is adorned
with such a building and more are
under way. Cheyenne, Laramie, Raw
Inns, Rock Springs, Evanston. Douglas,
Casper, Lander, Sheridan and Basin,
all have splendid buildings, of which
those at Cheyenne, Evanston. Lander
and Sheridan contain fine court
rooms Buffalo and Cody have build
ings appropriated for; Newcastle and
Green River have sites bought and
paid for. int had buildings provided
for in a bill which passed the House
Of Repre- en~tntives, but which failed
In the Senate in the closing days of
the Slxty-fourth Congress in the
spring of 1917.
Within the past year Mr.. Mondell's.
attention was called to crowded con-
dltions In the Casper postoffice, and
through his efforts additional space
was provided for lock boxes and in
the workrooms for employees. The
rapid growth of that city necessitates
still further postal facilities, and Mr..
Mondell has well under way plans
which will provide additional postal
space; particularly for the workers,
and also for additions to the federal
building within which to house other
government activities now occupying
rented quarters there. He has also
under way a similar plan for the. en-
largement of the Laramie postoffice
building.
The next session of Congress will
undoubtedly make provisions whereby
construction of the Cody and Buffalo
buildings may proceed, and further
provision for other growing towns of
the stnte.
The Cody Road.
During Mr.. Mondell's entire service
he has been very greatly interested in
the subject of roads,. A visit to the
Yellowstone Park emphasized the fact
hat while the park was wholly in
Wyoming, 1t was practically inacces-
sible except IN horseback, and he per-
sonaily began the Investigations and
followed them up by securing appro-
priations which led to the construc-
ton of the wonderful Cody entrance
{ the Yellowstone Park.
Road From Fort Washakie to National
Park.
Following the troubles that grew out
of the unauthorized hunting of In
dams in the lower Jackson Hole
country in 1896, Mr.. Mondell became
active in securing an appropriation
for a road from Fors Washable north
west into Jackson hole and into Vel
lowstone Park. Thus was opened the
first wagon road through that section.
The Moran Road.
Following this, Mr.. Monden became
active in securing appropriations for
the adoption as a part of the Yellow
stone Park system of the road from
the southern boundary of the park to
Moran He later secured an appro-
priation for q new bridge across the
Buffalo Fork of the Snake River. In
the meantime, he had been active from
year to year in securing appropria-
tons of $4,000 per annum for roads
and bridges IN the Wind River Res
ervation.
Forest Roads.
Mr.. Mondell was one of the first
--Aa r,rroa n 1frtcfnn nf tho rooaitNtc
from Forest Reserves with the states
for road purposes, and was active in
aiding to secure first the % per cent
contribution to the states for roads,
and later the 10 per cent provision
under which forest roads are con-
structed by the Forest Service. Out
of these funds, particularly the 10 per
cent fund, he early urged work IN the
road through the Teton Pass into
Jackson Hole, and on the Upper Green
River and in the Hoback Canon, roads
leading from Pinedale into the Jack
son Hole.
Good Roads Legislation.
MI. Mondell was actively interested
In the first agitation of the legislation
for federal aid in general road con-
struc.ion, and particularly with a view
of securing a liberal provision for the
new public land states, and also in
the effort to secure liberal provisions
for aid in the construction of roads in
the Forest Reserves.
Section 8, Forest Roads.
Section 8, the forest road section
of the original Good Roads Act, vas
along the lines of the efforts that he
had made in this direction, and imme-
diately after the adoption of this leg
islation he began to urge the construc-
ton of roads on or in the vicinity of
Forest Reserves through state cooper
alton in the building of adjacent and
connecting roads within the state.
Buffalo-Ten Sleep Road.
Owing to energetic local co-opera-
ton the Buffalo-Ten Sleep road vas
one of the first fruits of Section s