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The Surveyor, Mr Edson D. Briggs, has been most diligent and faithful, and has accomplished a great deal of work. The new survey was not authorized until August 16, 1889. Since then he has surveyed the fractional parts of townships 37, Ranges 4 and 5 West. Townships 31, Ranges 3 and 4 East. Townships 32, Ranges 3 and 4 East. The township lines new and closed between Ranges 2 & 3, 3 & 4, East, and between Townships 31 & 32, 32 & 33, N.

The running out of claim upon the bottom lands on the Clearwater, South Fork, and tributary creeks involved much labor and time. The country over which the lines had to be carried was cut up with cañons rendering the chaining difficult and sometimes dangerous. I was able to employ Indians, but the severity of the work told severely upon them, only one man holding out to the end. I should add that the Surveyor has retraced, and discovered all the monuments upon the old boundary line of the reservation from the Potlatch Creek on the north, to the West line, thence South to Waha Lake, and thence East to the South East corner, and North to the