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Idaho, June 26, 1889.

Hon Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Sir:
I have the honor to state that I am still at the Agency. The team and wagon turned over by Agent Monteith of [[?]] arrived safely in due time, having been brought thro. with skill and care by my messenger during an intensely hot term. The horses are well adapted to my work. The wagon and harness needed considerable repairing which has been done at the Agency, under the careful supervision of Special Agt. Welton.

The entire Western boundary has been retraced, Surveyor Briggs finding all the old landmarks, and setting right corners which had been lost. One man Mr J. D. Martin, was farming in the reservation, his lines having been run incorrectly by the County Surveyor. He has agreed to move his fence to the proper line after harvest is over. The south boundary will next be run, and I trust the authority will soon be received, for the Surveyor to close in the lines in the unsurveyed and partially surveyed townships and sections.

The difficulties incident to the incoming Agent, whose presence is resented by the tribe, considerably affects my work. The Indians feel aggrieved by the indifference shown toward their appeals, and they distrust the good faith of the Government in its laws, as well as executive acts. In reply to the stimulating picture