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Show 24 BEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. road from Eugene City, by way of Middle Fork of Willa~nette River and the most feasible pass in the Cascade Range of u~onotains, near Diamond Peak, to the eastern boundary of the State, alternate sections of public lands, designated by odd sections, for three sections i n width on each side of said road. Subrrqueu&ly, on the 14th of Oqtober, 1864, a. treaty was concluded between the United Btates and the Klamath a~rdM odoo tribes and Pa-hooskin band of Snake Indians, which, however, was not ratified till February 17, 6870, (16 Stats., p. 707,) by the terms of the first article of which the United States reoog~rized the existence of the ludian title or claim to the regior~o f courltry therein described, by having the Indians cede and relinquish their right., title, and claim thereto to the United States, with the proviso "that the following-described tract witbiu the country ceded by the treaty shall, until otherwisedirected by the Pres-ident of the United States, be set apart as an Indian reservation." Then follows a description of the tract of country reserved, known as the Klau~athIn dian reservation in Oregon. Tbe route of the said wago~l-roadim sses throngh the entire length of the tract of country reservetl for these Indians. On the 4th of Novem-ber, 1874, the General Laud OBce advised this of6oe that the odd sec. tions fallir~gw ithin the Indian reservation had been approved to tbe State for the benefit ofsaid road, as follows: April 21,1871 ....... : .................................................... 51,248.56 December 8,1871 ........................................................ 37,414.51 April 2, 1873 .... :. .. .: ......................... ...,. ................... -4,48-7.34 - - Total. ............................................................. 93,150.41 ~ n c l e rd ate of the 28t,h of December, 1874, M=.B . J. Pengra,, agent for the parties in interest, stated that these lands granted to the State of Oregon by the act of July 2, 1864, were. by the legislative assernbly of said State, in September following. granted to the Oregon Military Koad Company, by wfiom they have recently been conveyed to said Perlgra of Oregon, ,md by him to Nicholas Lunning, Edgar Mills, N. D. Rideout,, W. H. Parks, C. W. Colby, W. C. Beleher, John Boggs, and others, of California; that said owners of the grant had instructed him to propose, as an equitable settlement of t l ~ em atter. and to iudemnify thern tbr the lands taken by the governme~~tht,a t Congress pass an act at its present sassiou allowing said owners, ill lieu of their lands em-braced in the Klamath reuwvatioo, t.o locate en equal number of acres of anv vacant eoveroment lands elsewhere. &a. TI& nwrter \;.a* before the first seasion oi tit* Forty-fourth Cor~greas, in House t~illI slti, I I I I ~n o detiuire acrioi~w an take!,. A rennrt was made to tbr dent~rtu~eount t l~e2 9th of F ~ b r u a r1~8.7 6. givinpiheviews of this ofice on' this bill and involved tderei<, with several propositious for their adjnstment,.one of which was for authority to negotiate an sgl.eeatent between the road com[)ang, the In. dianu, aud the government whereby the company may receive such a fair and equitable assigrlmeut of lands within the Indian reservation and lying in a eon!paet body, as will be an equivalent in area and value to the alternate sections within the reserve r~ow claimed by said cow-yany. The Iudiao reservation contains orbroue million of acres ot'land, while tbe number of Indiaus is but little in excess of one thousand. One hundred and thirt,y thousand acres, or an area equal to the quan-tity that may be four~d to belawfully claimed by the road company within the reserve, could be~relioquisl~eidn compact form to &lid com- |
