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changes of custom, and also those who own herds of ponies & cattle. They fear the cutting down of the range. With the Agent in sympathy with the law these difficulties will soon be overcome.

Mr Briggs, the Surveyor, has been in the field, for a month, running out lines, and working from new survey, on difficult ground, near the Clearwater, meandering the stream from above the Mouth of the Lapwai, to the Western line of the reservation, and completing some unfinished work in Town. 36. Range 4. West. He was off duty three days at the close of the month making some surveys adjoining the Western line of the reservation. This work was requested by the Surveyor General and is now completed.

I have been busy with my quarterly accounts for the 3d quarter, and shall go to Lewiston Monday to swear to them.

The intense heat & lack of rain is beginning to turn the young grass yellow & to threaten the grain crop.

Respectfully
[[signature]] Alice C. Fletcher [[/signature]]
Spl. Ind. Agt.