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Ford Cr. in distance along the river bottom of about 30 to 40 miles. Here live about 200 Indians. It is impossible that these can all be allotted in their present locations. The country is very rough, wagon travel is impossible in places, and it is unsurveyed.  The only over flow for their group as for the people hereabouts and at Kamiah is upon the Country East of Craigs' Mt. where the work must be completed by early in October, & to miss the storms will prevent surveying.  It is impossible, as well as illegal to use the compass. In spots will hug the plots, the solar instrument is the only one by which one can find one's way up. The Surveyor starts today, with a list of all the people living there, to run the North boundary, to grade the land, so that I can tell the people how many can take land there, & so that the overflow can go at once to the region East of Craigs Mt. & secure their land. He will not stop to survey, for he has first to bring the lines up from the South, and to do all that now, will lose valuable time, for not only must I catch good weather beyond the mountains, but the