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Show onions, peas, beans, potatoes, and other garden truck on their sllotments. Dozens of them aame to me for wheat and various other aeed to plant. The trouble is that they h v e no aeed, no plows, no wagons, no money, no anything but a few ponies, worth about 50 oents each. They want to improve their lands, hut they do not know how to begin. I believe their salvation (in this world) lies in the school now being eatabliahed at Fort Bidwell. I wrote the office when I was first sent to thia seation that I would consider making these allotments a very donbtfnl experiment were it not for the proposed establishment of the school, but with the general supervision inoideut to the soh001 I thought the allotment work could he made a ~uaoesa. Most of the allatteea are children, and for every one of them there is hope. The old peoplemay not do much in the year8 left to them, but they know enough now ta be very anxious far the school to be established. I think a smell annual a m could be most adventageonsly expended through the official in charge of the school toward enahling the deserving and indnstrious of the elder Indiana to make a living on their allotments. Let thepl be given seed to plant. Let them he given such farming utensils as they are obliged to have. Let the industrial teacher or farmer, with the aid of the boys in the farming cl~asg, o over the allotments and help the old folks get started. Thh would prove practical 5nd intereatiig work for the school bogs and a valuable object lesson to their fathers. And let the doctrine be driven into the Indian that "God helps him who helpa himself? Allthia I earnestly recommend. Mr. Bsmher, now in oharge of the soh001 organization, made from my maps of the townships near Fort Bidwell a composite map embracing all the townships, and showing in colors all my allotments, and knows personally the sllottees, and is regarded by them as a p& of the general plan. He, therefore, mnch better than anyone elaq could carry out the above and kindred snggestions. I gave him also sohedulea of all the other allotments in the Surprise Valley; and these, at little expenae, aauld be visited and aided, and the movements upon them direoted in the same way. February 3,1897, Senator George W.McBride transmitted to this office a letter dated January 6,1897, from the register of the local land office at Burps, Oreg.,reciting that there were then in Harney County about 165 Piute Indians (men, women, and children) who desired allotments, being a remnant of the tribe which formerly occnpied the Malhenr Indian Agency. They wereverypoor,about 40 of them dependingentirelyupou the charity of the peopleof Burns for sustenance during the winter; the rest, located at Drewsey, Harney, and other points in said county, being similarly provided for. They wished to take allotments of land in sev-eralty in as nearly compact a body as possible. Angust 4,1897, this d o e instrncted William E. Casson, of Wisconsin, to proceed to Burns, , Oreg., for the purpose of making allotments to these Indians and to any others in that locality who should be found entitled. Since the last annual report this office has received for consideration the usual number of dlotment applications referred from the General Land Office. Some of these cover allotments already made by agents in the field; others embrace lands to be allotted by the special agent on duty in this- office. Aportion of the latter have already received his attention, and the remainder will be considered as soon as practicable. Schedules embracing all the allotments in severalty made by the late special allotting agent, Bernard Arntzen, from September, 1893, to March, 1895 (67 excepted) were submitted to the Department for |