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from their homes located on the Langford claim by my instruction not to allot those lands. Also by the appropriation of a large trust by the Gov't as a hay reservation, where no hay is cut, but upon which tract several Indian families have dwelt for many years. The families [[insert]] on these two tracts [[/insert]] numbering about 30 in all and their friends form a very formidable group of discontented people, and add to these the Indians who own herds of ponies & cattle, and who object to the range-land being circumscribed by allotment, and the material for opposition to the enforcement of the Severalty Act is plentiful, at the least estimate. For all that, I shall, unless there is some injudicious conduct toward the [[insert]] turbulent [[/insert]] men, make a number of allotments here and open the way for next year's work hereabouts.

The Survey is completed in Township 37, R4. W., Township 31, Ranges 3 & 4. East, Township 32, Range 4 East; Half of Township 32. R.3. East; Township 33. Range 3. East, nearly all of Township 33 Range 4 East, and a part of Township 34, Ranges 3 and 4 East. All this work has lain in a very rugged country cut up by canyons and very difficult