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[[stamped]] 473 [[/stamped]] ^[[1891]] Ft. Lapwai === July 11 1 My dear Gen'l and Mrs. Morgan Your welcome letters have remained unanswered because of the heavy pressure of work, I have been unable to get a moment from early morning until late at night. I thank you for the help you have given me and I shall do my utmost to complete the allotment. Mr Briggs and I are both doing all we can and we are confident that we can get thru if we can get the Indians to come and see their allotments [[?]] [[out?]]. The country is so very rugged and the Indians are so entirely ignorant of the amount of land in 80 or 100 acres (they can judge of a twenty acre lot) that it is impossible for them to indicate where they take land, and frequently six or ten families will pick out a tract that does not contain three hundred acres and they are filled will astonishment that they cannot all be allotted on that tract. The [[opposite?]] [[page torn]] to this condition is for one or two men to claim nearly a township and then battle with [[each?]] allotment near them, destroying landmarks and