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Show REPORT OF THE COMaflSSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXVII by official survey, and consequently the miners and prospectors, flock-iug into the neighborhood from all directions, dispute the jurisdiction of the agent, who, by astronomical observations, has approximately determilled the location of the bonnda,ry, and declares the discovkries to he within the reservation. In regard to this he says: The great wrong in not surveying these reservation lines and moonmenting them leaves all these border complaiots for continuance, and it is along these the wrangles commanoe; the ranohmen and the prospeotoraalilim they are off, thesgent sodhtdiaoa that they are on, the reservation; at sng rate the whites crowd the line to the very greatest extant, and only on assurance of removal and loas of improvements do they hesitate to make them. It is s hard matter to take s crooked line 70 -ilea long, and ranging from peak to peak, and decide within a mile whether a ranch is off or on the reservation, and become responsible for the oh~ervetione nd action. If the governmeot will not appropriate funda to eurvey t,he line, I do not think any agent will or oan run the risk of deuiding the sxaat location of it. I believe, had these lines been surveyed and determined belonging to this reservation, that thausauds of dollarawould already hare been saved to the government, and if it does not do 80 soon it will cost tho~isanda of dollare more, and many lives. The agents at the Klamath Agency, in Oregon, and the military offi-cers as well, have repeatedly warned the department of the immineut danger growiug out of the disputed boundary question at that agency. Rerds of catt.le arc drivcn and grazed upon what is no doubt a pal% of the Klamat,h Xeservat.ion, and the Indians claim that lauds acquired by them under solcmn treaty st.ipulatio~lsh ave been sold to white set-tlers who are uow in full occupation and enjoyment of them. It is ad-mitted by the General Land Office that the treaty lines of the east alld south, and a portion of the west side of the reservation 'irere not fol-lowed by the surveyor who made the survey of the reservation in 1871, but that cerbaiu lines of the pul>lic survey lying considerably illside of the reservation, as defined by the language of the treaty, were followed instead. Hence it mould appear that the Indians have good grounds for complaint. Agent Niokerson has recently ma.de this matter the subject of a special report to this bureau, in which he again warns the government of the danger of further delay in the settlemerlt of this vexed question. He says : While thereis apatient waiting an the part of the Indians for the government to re-dress what they believe to be their wrongs, there is also e deep and-growing conviction in their minds that nothing will he done unleas eome complioation shall arise that will compel action. Not to heed these repeated warnings is to assume a responsibiIitp that this officei s ,uumilli~lgto take upon itself. Tillable lauds within the reservations should in all cases be subdi-vided, whereit has not already been done, in order that allotme~ltsm ay he made to individual Indians, aud that all such lar~dsm ay be made available for that purpose, whether remote from the agency or adjacent thereto. It is hoped that this matter may be pressed upon the attention of |