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Show l i n e , and though making a most thorough and earnest search, I am compelled to report my i n a b i l i t y to do- s o . L rode down White River on the North side fully twenty five miles from Rangely u n t i l absol u t e l y c e r t a i n I was w i t h i n the r e s e r v a t i o n , uut without finding any S u r v e y o r ' s mark, mound or monument. Then r e t u r n i n g two miles and c l o s e l y c o n s u l t i n g Hayden's Map the topography of the country showed I must be in the immediate v i c i n i t y of the l i n e , and close s e a r c h revealed a mound of stones such as are made by s u r v e y o r s , b ut t h e r e was no monument i n s i d e to denote i t s c h a r a c t e r . Climbing the high, p r e c i p i t o u s bluff by the r i v e r the search was continued without s u c c e s s , only an unmarked s t a k e , 14 by I? i n c h e s , being found- Descending and c r o s s i n g the r i v e r to the South side another small mound of stones was found but no monument. Climbing the mountain on that s i d e I t r a v e l l e d southwards in u n a v a i l i n g search t i l l thoroughly exhausted, and on the t h i r d day returned to Rangely convinced that i f t h e l i n e ever had been properly l a i d down a l l t r a c e s of i t had been o b l i t e r a t e d . Here the Indians were found in force, and c a l l i n g them t o g e t h e r in council I s t a t e d my i n a b i l i t y to d e f i n i t e ly l o c a t e the l i n e , whereat they were very much pleased and began clamering that I had looked in the wrong p l a c e ; that the line was somewhere east of Douglas Creek, some claiming i t extended to near Meeker, Colo-, and the s t o r y was rehearsed that the Commissioners •A0 removed them from t h e i r old r e s e r v a t i o n and t h e i r Agent at the time, Mr. Berry, had so advised them. However without further parl ey T p r e e m p t o r i l y ordered the Colorow brothers to at once move t h e i r camps and a l l t h e i r f o l l o w e r s ( t h e n s c a t t e r e d from ten miles e as t of R 'AIXYJ 1 y t o w i t h i n t h i r t y m i 1 e s o f M 2 e k e r ) d own Wh i t .-.• River c l o s e to about where 1 supposed the (line?) was- They mode b i t t er o b j e c t i o n to what they termed was an unjust order and began p s r l e y - xng again, out i n s i s t i n g upon an immediate answer, they r e l u c t a n t ly u^rsed to obey and move t h e i r camps where I d i r e c t e d. |