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Ft. Lapwai Idaho.
May 30. 1890

Hon. Commis of Ind. Affairs

Sir:

I have the honor to report that my head quarters are still at Ft. Lapwai, where I am at work trying to close up the allotments in this immediate vicinity. I have settled the disputes, and the Surveyor has run out the improvements, and I have effected compromises between the lines of the survey and the lines on which the government built the fences, to the satisfaction of all parties, along the south bank of the Clearwater, below the Lapwai; along the Lapwai; and Sweetwater. The Tom Bell creek, a tributary to the Lapwai from the East, is thickly settled for five miles, and is upon unsurveyed land. The Cottonwood creek some twelve or fifteen miles long, emptying into the Clearwater 4 or 5 miles East of the Lapwai is also thickly settled, and is unsurveyed. As these creeks run Northeast and Southwest, and Southeast and Northwest, all the fences and improvements cross the lines of survey