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both sides to prevent depredations from straying stock upon the land under cultivation.

An instance will show the difficulties connected with these roads. The stage road between Lewiston and Genesee runs through the western part of the Nez Perce reservation, north of the Clearwater. The road after leaving the Clearwater river, winds up the high bluffs, following a carefully laid out grade, cut on the steep sides of the canons, until it reaches the uplands, where it strikes a rolling prairie country. About one-third the way up the grade, the road enters the reservation, and continues upon the reserve until it passes out at the north line within a short distance of Genesee, which is about a mile and a half from the reservation. ^[[S]]ome distance beyond where the road leaves the grade, at the South West corner of Township 37, Range 4 West, the road is very nearly ^[[o]]n the West line of the township, it then turns easterly and forks on the S.E. 1-4 of N.W. 1-4 Sec. 31, the main road passing north through the centre of the West 1-2 of Sec. 30, and through the West 1-2 of that part of Sec. 19, lying within the reservation. The road as it passes o^[[ver]] this land, cuts up the allotments which occupy all of sections 31,30 & the fractions of 19, and seriously affect the farming interests of these allottees.