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Show ~s~ The Indians then spoke of various matt err., emphasing particularly ;.. the importance of having the out boundaries of their reservations surveyed and properly marked, so that contentions and possible trouble with White* might be obviated thereby. I next proceeded to the Ouray agency, thirty-five miles South of White Bocks, where I held a council • with the uncompahgre'o, by appointment, on the 4th inst., which council was fairly well attended and very satisfactory so far as good promises ! were concerned. it may be proper to 3tate in this connection that the Ouray school attendance was not effected by the oeasle epidemic, notwithstanding that two of the pupil:- died, as the parents did not stanpede over it as the Uintahs and White Rivers did, but left their children in the school to be nursed through their illness. Several, whose health has been impaired by the measles are, however, now at home to recuperate who will be returned as soon as they have regained their health. Host of the Uncompahgre»s who have allotments on the Uintah reservation (numbering about one-half of the band) have their children \ in school and it is those of tho band who have allotments on the former f | Uncompahgre's reservation and live east of Green River, from fifty to j seventy-five miles from the Ouray school, whose children are not in school. In fact those Indian:; living so far from tho agency are not under very good control and do about as they please, and I regard it I unfortunate, from what I learned of their locations, that they were | alloted lands so far from where they could be visiter more frequently and kept under better control. I was informed by severe! of the j allottees, also by white persons familiar with the country ani its resources, that the lands thus allotei are arid and undesirable, with no possibility of irrigation, and without which nothing can be raised |