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Show All will Be with the • important difference that there ia no shortage of Subdued. " "•- '" water In the'Deep Creek Country. Quite 30;£ of the land in this country is under cultivation and th-J re_iainio.g 20£ will be gotten und-sr cultivation by 3uperintcndt3.it Kneale, probably, during tha eocdng year. V-a raachod the A^ancy about 6;30 P. 2., after having driven moro than 50 miles. Streaking generally cf the trips vo had taken, Super intend ant Kneala aaid: On the trips uo h.^ve made y_ju have seen sum-plea of practically everything we have in th_ way of lanes* In tho .-iltonah. country, lying north cf the Redcap country, we have 11,000 acrtss in a bench very similar to the Shite Hocks Sonch. Of thin 11,000 acres, approximately 35p or 90?» i3 und&r ouItlTfctian or definite arrangsuenis have been made £or its cultivation. Cn this bench are located soma excellent Indian far».rs. Cther Fine Ir- *ke Haola country, southwest of Thits Indian Lands. Rocks,we hava three benches: ths Hoola bench, with 6,CC0 acres] the r-aphl Bench, with 2,COO acres, and the Black Hawk Bench with 1,760 aersa, all allotted. Tho land comprising these benches is, very.like that on the Shite Rocks Bench. yy- Throughout, that-territory there are- a number of; > P good 'Indian farmers. Oypo > iy Korth of the ??hite' Socks Bench, as you noted, lies the cedar country. Tho soil of this section is first rate, but it is so donsisly covered with scrub cedars that it ia vory difficult to subdue. Ihe grubbing of the cedars, -which is a necessary preliminary to the cultivation cf tho ground is a very serious proposition. It is all hand work and ia difficult and takoe a great daal cf time,. 00O00-" |
