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the benches where the only arable land lies. The water seeps out, and unless one happens to strike a vein carrying water, in digging a well, it will be almost impossible to get water. Springs therefore are very valuable. 

In the N.E. ¼ of the S.E. ¼ of Sec. 16, T.31.N. R.3, East there is a Spring. This "Tom" had selected, cleared out and fenced, and altho it is surrounded by a white alkali plain, the soil cracked, hard & barren, not to mention the rocky gulches running thro it, this Indian felt he must have that forty at any rate, and he desired to have his grazing land adjoining. He also wished to have some agricultural land. I went carefully over every 40 acres, and made the following allotment: NE ¼ & W ½ of N.W ¼ & the fractions lying in the S.E ¼ & the fraction in the NE ¼ of SW ¼ of Sec. 16, T.3l, R.3, East. As the fractions are not yet traversed out, owing to a discrepancy between the records at the Land Office at Lewiston, & the chaining from the corner to the mound on the South boundary of the Res., I cannot give the exact acreage but will do so approximately. 

NE ¼ & W ¼ N.W ¼ | 240 acres
NE ¼ of SE ¼ 38 acre. Fraction in SE ¼ of SE ¼ 5 acres | 43 acres
Fraction in NW ¼ of SE ¼ 25 acres. Fraction in NE of SW ¼ 15 | 40 acres
Total. | 323 acres.