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this plan Mr Osborne agreed. And if my memory serves me right he told me afterward that he had instructed the Agent to consult with Mr Briggs & report. If this was done the Agent never spoke to Mr B, and now the right of way is approved and the Indians are badly cut up. The Agent has according to his own statement never gone over the Potlatch valley and Mr B. tells me that the R.R. plats do not do justice to the Indian improvements. All the valley is thickly settled and some Inds have over 40 acres under cultivation.  More over the stakes of the R.R. have all been changed during the past two weeks and now the road cuts the Inds all to pieces. Before the line was laid down [[strikethrough]] between [[/strikethrough]] about 150 feet from the river and the Indians could crowd back of the right of way & keep part of their fields. Now the road runs at the foot of the bluffs and over 500 feet from the river & takes about all the fields and leaves the people without any bottom land of any amount when you take out the present traveled road along the river.  More over the R.R. crosses the river thro. the center of the place known as the [[Boom?]] concerning which I reported the first year. This is the place