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the residue of their allotments. All these lands were unsurveyed, and authority to enter upon the new survey although made early in the season did not reach me through the Surveyors General's Office until August 16, when I at once engaged chain and axe men and the party started for Lewiston [[insert]] over 80 miles away [[/insert]] to take the oath of office and do some needful surveying in Township 37 Range 4 West.

Soon after I broke camp at Kamiah and went into camp some 40 miles to the Westward, where I was soon joined by the Surveyor and surveying and allotment progressed. Owing to the rugged and broken nature of the country, the steep rocky ascents & descents, the journeys had to be made by pack trains. The horses & wagon furnished me, could transport little over the country which was without roads, so that all my office material, as well as my tent, bedding, food and the forage for my horses, had to go on pack horses.