WSP03059

• File Number: 8064.100
• Description: Section "D" General Federal Issues/Policies, Ute Indians
• State: CO
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Thomas L Iden
• Title: A History of the Ute Cessions of Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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to speak. He said, "Those lines the surveyors are

running on the reservation are not according to the

treaty. The mountains were the boundary of our reser-

vation, (on the east), and we want to know what treaty

has been made that gave them the privilege of coming

in and running these lines in our lands."

Mr. Brunot's answer and some of the resulting con-

versation is as follows:

Mr. Brunot:

"The treaty tells the lines of the reser-

vation. I had nothing to do with making the treaty. The

way the whites have of telling the lines by the compass,

you cannot understand, and when the treaty was made the

lines were named, but it was not put on the land; when

they came to locate the agency they thought it was on

that reservation."

Ouray:

"It was on the reservation.

I was inter-

preter and knew what the boundary lines were."

Mr. Brunot:

"The lines they are running is only

to see whether the lines are where you thought they were

or not; I do not know anything about these surveyors."

Ouray:

"They are measuring, and whenever they find

a mine they take a little piece more of our country. They

are running new lines all the time......I interpreted it to

the utes when the treaty was made, that the line would be

from the Rio Grande to the head of the mountain. We under-

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