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all involving time, and miles of travel. An instance will show: about three weeks ago I received word from the Surveyor who was six miles from my camp that it was impossible for two men to come to terms and I was needed at once. To reach the place I had to travel 35 miles, & return 35 miles to my camp. Impassable canyons had to be heeded lay between the two places. The rugged nature of the country has delayed the work, and the necessity of carefully grading the land, and adjusting the allotments so as to avoid the masses of work, as much as possible, has made additional delay.  Beside the 655 completed allotments, I have 125 partial allotments making 780 allotments, altogether; for these partial allotments are far more troublesome than where the Indian takes his full allotment, as they almost all occur in the creek bottoms, where the fields lie in all sorts of shapes and must be adjusted so as to conform to the lines of the survey.

The Surveyor has run out 160 miles of new survey, beside establishing all the corners of the allotments, and adjusting the lines upon the