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The Wadsworth Dispatch
Wadsworth, Washoe County, Nevada
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Johnson Sides reports on his three-week visit to Pyramid Reservation: Indians well-fed by Agent Warner, boys studious in school but girls not; anxiety over delayed Truckee River irrigation ditch; unfulfilled promise of $20,000 cattle from commissioners Ormsby and Morgan three years ago, leading Indians to claim land rights.
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Johnson Sides, the great Indian peace-maker, has returned from the Pyramid Reservation, where he spent three weeks
He says Agent Warner gives the Indians plenty to eat. The boys at the Indian school are very studious, but the girls not and he does not think it is any use to send girls to school, at least the girls' parents told him so.
The Indians are anxious to know when work will be commenced on the irrigating ditch from the Truckee river.
It was surveyed a year or two ago and it was reported that an appropriation had been made for building it. The Indians have not land enough to cultivate, on account of the scarcity of water, If the Truckee ditch was built then all could have plenty of land and water and could raise big crops.
Three years ago commissioners came out from Washington, and Messrs. Ormsby and Morgan, two of the Commissioners, said the Government would give the Indians $20,000 worth of cattle by New Years'. Since then New Years' has come three times, but no cattle.
For this reason the Indians claim that all the land between Wadsworth and the Agency belongs to them yet, as they were to receive the cattle for relinquishing their title to that part of the reservation.-Journal.
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Pyramid Reservation
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unfulfilled government promises of cattle and irrigation; indians claim land rights due to non-delivery.
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Johnson Sides returned from three weeks at Pyramid Reservation, reporting adequate food from Agent Warner, studious boys but unmotivated girls in school per parents, anxiety over delayed Truckee River irrigation ditch surveyed a year or two ago with reported appropriation, and unkept promise from three years ago by Commissioners Ormsby and Morgan for $20,000 cattle in exchange for land relinquishment.