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and will make compromises necessary. All the land along Garden gulch creek which empties into the Lapwai from the East opposite the Fort has has been resurveyed and allotted, and ^[[also]] the land to the Eastward some 5 or 6 miles. 

This part of the reservation is very much broken, cut up by gulches, not deep canyon as in the South Eastern part, and this makes it needful to go over every 20 or 40 acres to grade the land accurately. Moreover the country is destitute of water except these creeks, there being very few springs among the hills, and this renders it absolutely necessary to divide the creeks bottom so as to give as many allottees access to water as it is possible to do. The retracing of the old survey, owing to the nature of the soil, and the conformation of the land, is about the same as making an entire new survey, and this makes the work heavy. And added to the disputes, and the care which must be taken in grading, because of many conditions which surround the reservation, causes the work to go more slowly than I could wish.