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wells have been sunk over 100 feet and no sign of water.

In order to fully, and fairly estimate this land I have visited the length & breadth of Camas Prairie that portion outside the reservation where white men have settled. I have looked over their farms, and talked with the most thrifty men. All agree that this is a grazing country, that a man would starve if he had to live by farming. It is grazing for two reasons, first the climate condition, the elevation is about 3700 feet above the water, and second its isolation. Camas prairie is a bowl shaped valley about 30 miles diameter, hedged in by Mts. almost impassable on the north, east, & south except at a few passes, the only road being over Craigs Mt., in ^[[the west]] to the valley of the Snake river. What ever is raised must be able to walk out, as all other produce must go out on pack mules, and it would be impossible to get grain to market in paying quantities even if it could be raised. Grazing land must be the main stay of the inhabitants both whites and Indians.

The allotment goes a little slowly owing to the unsurveyed land, and difficulties I have mentioned in earlier reports. The independent men, mostly those belonging