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Kamiah Nez Perce
Oct. 17  89

Hon. Comm'r. of Indian Affairs

Sir:
I herewith transmit my estimate for funds for the Second Quarter 1890, & respectfully ask your approval.

In my letter of instructions dated May 4, 1889, marked "Law & Land Auth'y 19769 1889" the expenditure for the survey & resurvey of this reservation in limited to $1,500. This sum will not cover the needed work. The land is very difficult to travel over, and owing to the cutting up of the surface by canyons, the work goes more slowly than where the ground is level or merely rolling. The new survey now in process covers nine (9) townships or parts of townships intersected by three great canyons, Lawyer's Canyon heading in Craig's Mt.; Cottonwood Canyon heading at Cottonwood, Camas Prairie; Three-mile Canyon heading about Grangeville, Camas Prairie; from these main canyons numerous minor canyons branch. All of the large canyons finally open into the canyon of the Clearwater and the South Fork. Upon the benches lying between the main and