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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 93 ing of the lands purchwed for the Campo Indians, at an expense of about $4,000; the construction of a reservoir and irrigation ditches, with the necessary laterals to irrigate the camp0 Reservation, to cost approximately $20,000; and the fencing of the Mesa Grande or Santa Ysabel No 2 Reservation, Santa Ysabel No. 3, and that part of the Las coyotes Reservation which adjoins the Warner's ranch grant. In northern California the following purchases have been author-. bed: For the use of the Cortina band, 480 acres at $4,800; for a band of Indians in Yolo County, 74.16 acres for $2,000; at Blue . . Lake, Humboldt County, for $1,500, a tract of about 27 acres, to fur- . nish homes for some ten families; at Trinidad, Humboldt County, about 60 acres for $1,200, though, owing to a defective title, this tract may be rejected in favor of another 60 acres; at Poilasky, 140 ades for $1,675 for the use of the Millerton band of Indians. At Colusa the purchase for $3,800 of a part of the rancheria near Packer, for the use of the Indians residing there, has beenconsidered. The title to this lind has twice passed through the probate court in the city and county of San Francisw, but the county court records were destroyed in the fire of 1906, and as the probate proceedings are not of record in Colusa County, ,evidences of title are difficult to procure. An abstract of title is now before a title insurance company, and, if approved by them, the purchase will be made. The purchase from William Westbrook, for $7,200, of a tract of 163.86 acres for the Smith River Indians has been decided on. It borders three-quarters of a mile on the ocean and 1,200 feeton Smith River, and is desired by the Indians because of its convenience to a supply of sea food and its nearness to the fisheries in which the Indians find employment. The Indians in the neighborhood of Etna have been living on lands which are a part of the Central Pacific Railroad Company's grant. 'The company offered them to the Government for the use of the Indians at the rate of $5 per acre, and the purchase was author-ized at $2,208. The Hopland band, numbering 120 persons, was without lands, and 630 acres are to he purchased for them in the McDowell Valley for $5,750. The band of Indians called by the various names of Guenoc, Low-nomi and Middleton, has from time immemorial resided on what is known as the Guenoc ranch. The part they occupy having recently been purchased by a land company for speculative purposes, land is to be purchased for them elsewhere at $2,000. The wst of the ten tracts in northern California whose purchase has actually been authorized will aggregate $32,033. Other pur-chases in prospect are 75 acres for the Rumsey band and 92 acres for the Upper Lake band. |
