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Show / ^n i.ednesday, November 1, Superintendent -*-noale and I retaained at the Agency office throughout the day, preparing notes upon tho trips we had cade and discussing various problems . which had arisen. Land Under ^n Thursday, Hovember 2, in a buggy behind a teaa of mulea, . Cultivation. we made a long trip, traversing almost the entire country knc^n as the Indian Bench. This bench cauprisca 5,000 acres of land allotted to the Indiana, 35J. of which ia ::G<* under cultivation, either by the lndi*.a8 or by lesseaa. -yuite 50^» of th«s cultivation is being oarriod on by the Indiana themselves. I am submitting herewith, as a part of this report, a photograph of a house erected by Superintendent .".noaie for Tooley Jack, a rather progressive Uintah Indian. In the picture will be seen Julia Tonner Jack, the wife, standing on the steps. Tooley Jack is making eatcellsnt uae of hia allotment. Adjoining looley Jack's allotment, on tha north, ia that of Billy Chapoosa. Hay stacks, grain stacks and livestock on the premises indicated clearly that Chapooae waa fairly prosperous. He is a good farmer. Enroute to H'ciltaiHocks, the fornwr site of the Agency, we passed through soc-.e sJacallant farming country. Several of the Other allotments recently had been made to Indians who had exchanged Good Land. them for worthless allotments previously made to them. Before |