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Show 12 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Ronnd valley comprises a tract of about 25,000 acres, containing land of re-markable fertility, both as to the arable and oastnre land. Under the charre of Agent ~airehild: the measurea taken for the 'care and support of the 1udia;s at this point have been carried on with enersv,and 2,700 acres have been enclosed with'a good fence, while preparations arrfar advanced towards the fencing of 3,000 acres more. Over.1,000 acres have been under cultivation this year; hut the erops are light as to all kinds of grain, though vegetables were plentiful. The occupants of this reservation comprise the following Indiana: Pitt Rivers 320, Wylackirs 80, Tlkies 300, Onocows 240, making an aggregate of 940; to which would he added immediately 370 of the Indians who have been kept at Humholdt bay, under charge of the military; the remaining 400 of those p r i ~ oners being at the old Mendoeino reservation, at present under the charge of an employ4 fiom Round valley. The agent also expects to receive some 800 of the Clear Lake, Ukiall and Xedwood hands, who have expressed a desire to come irk0 the valley, and thinks there will he no difficult in subsisting all of them. The superintendent has terminated a lease of certain f ancls which were no longer needed, and which was costing the government $3,350 per annum. He reeom-mends the purchase of the improvements of the white settlers remaining in the valley, bnt gives no estimate of the cost of such purchase. Hoopa valley was selected last fall by late Superintendent Wiley as a reser-vation, aud possession taken under an arrangement with the settlers that their improvements should he purchased. Upon his suggestion that these improve-ments would not cost more than $60,000, an appropriation of that amount was made by Congress, and a hoard of appraisers designated. An appraisal made under directions from this office, by parties represented to be disinterested, was alreadv in oroeress, and their reoort reached this office before the instructions under"tlre a'ct l f ~ ~ o n ~ rwereres ; .or out. It made tile valuation over S116,000. heeides a large qenntiry of agricultural implements, amounring to o v r ~FS ,OOO. Thc ao~raisshl v thr new Loard 11,s i u ~ tn .achrd thr offire. :rnd is arthin t l ~ e amouo2'approphated for the improvements, while the valuation of tbe imple-ments is about $4,260 in coin. Upon the payment of the amounts so returned, the reservation will he entirely in the hands of government, and all white persons excluded, except the neoessary employes. Superintendent Edalthy does not represent the capacity of the reservation for - sustaining a large number of Indians in as favorable terms as his predece~sor. There are now 600 upon it, under charge of Agent Stoekton, and l,b00 Kla-maths are expected, this being, as now stated, about the capacity of the reserva-tion. , No trouble is found in getting all the necessary labor from the Indians, an overseer only being needed to direct them. Much expense fbr transportation of supplies is necessarily incurred until sufficient crops can be raised to subsist the Indians. Smith River reservation is upon the coast, and consists of one farm of 1,200 acres, besides adjoining lands, rented at a cost of $1,948 in gold per year. Uponit are 700 Hnmholdt and Wvlaokie Indians. auietb and indnstriouslv o&npied ; and they have rained tlli; prar an xb~indn;nce fir tllrir eulrsisten&. The suptrinrt*ndeat recommends the purchase of tllese l.~nrlja, nd mow in tile r~cinitv,if tlecrazurv, as hr thinks the cost of rr>rnovii~t1e1 v 111diil11aan d unttit~r up thenecessary h;ildinga at any other point would @eatly exceed theLeost ouf such purchase. He will he called npon for an estimate of the cost of the land referred to, as well as of the remaining improvements in Round valley. The Tule river farm, in the southern part of the State, under the charge of Agent Hoffman, contains 1,280 acres, and is also rented at $1,000 a year. There are npon it 800 Owen's river and Tule river Indians, who, though the crops were light, have raised enough to subsist them. The snperintendeut makes the same recommendatiou as to purchase of this farm as in the case of Smith river, and |