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preparing the people to accept allotment. Over 90 men met me at their church on Monday July 22, 1889 when I read and explained the Act of Feb. 8, 1887, answered their questions and told them my plan of work. Upon this meeting I reported July 25, 1889. Within the week a large number of Indians were registered and the work of running out their patches of land in the Kamiah Valley, begun, their fences standing at every angle to the survey which covered a part of the valley. The work of straightening out the little home plots was continued during a part of August, when, harvest being over, the people began to scatter to the mountains to lay in their winter supply of fish and meat. The severe drought having greatly reduced their grain crop they were anxious to be off to secure food for the cold weather.

The limited extent of the valley, it having but a few sections of available land, rendered it needful to scatter the people out upon the uplands to take there