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than I can command, it has become necessary for me to ask authority to employ more assistance.

Heretofore in allotment work I have had the use of the Indian police, in summoning Indians to go out and see to their allotments, in calling them together for the adjustment of contested claims, to bring my mail and to render other services incident to the work of allotment, which could not be performed by my driver and interpreter. This assistance has been impossible here, as every Indian in the employ of the Agency still opposes allotment, not to mention their opposition to other beneficial projects; the police deliver messages to the people concerning allotment, insubordinate in character, and thus harass orderly Indians. I have not taken any official notice of these things, as my experience and observation here has shown me that safety to my work lies in silence and isolation from the Agency.

Never before in any work I have done have I been so far removed from communication with the outside world or in a country so difficult to traverse. Permit me to mention a few of the conditions here: I have already called your attention to the remarkably broken nature of the country, where to reach a place a mile or two distant one must travel from 5 to 10 miles in order to head impassable canyons which lie between. This journeying takes