“Our friend in Congress introduced ‘House joint resolution 250’ for Attorney General to settle our water rights. This is good, but Secretary Interior hold up this resolution and try to make Jones bill 6693 law, so Reclamation will own all water and have us flat. We want you to stop Jones bill and make law the resolution 250. Then Attorney General will settle all justly. If this is not done we are bringing suit in United States court to settle our water rights. We want the white man to be honest and treat us right. Our words are done. “Our friend, help us. We want to hear from you. “Your friends, “(Signed) WE-YAL-LUP WA-YA-CI-KA (his x mark), “_Chief Judge of the Yakima Tribal Courts_, “_Clan Chief of the Ahtanum_. “(Signed) LOUIS MANN, “_Corresponding Secretary of the [Indian] Councils_.” The Utes of Utah and Colorado never have been progressive, though some of them do work. They require special treatment. A Government employee remedied conditions among them in August, 1912, and wrote me, giving sensible advice, as follows:— “What good does it do to send out circulars on sanitary conditions and dairying, when some of these Indians are in destitute circumstances? The poor Utes down at Navaho Springs need something to eat and wear, and some blankets to keep them warm. They sleep on sheepskins on the floors of their tipis. They get but little rations. They have been compelled to sell their ponies and buckskin suits, and beadwork, and Navaho blankets, to get something to eat for themselves and their children. They have no allotments, do not farm and have no way to make a dollar. [Illustration: INDIAN PACK-TRAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS Photographed by E. R. Forrest, Washington, Pa. ]