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Show 150 Shivwits Indians residing in the southwest corner of Utah near St. Georges. They have about 70 acres of tillable land with adjacent lands suitable for pasturage. A group of about 80 Paiutes he found near what is known as Moccasin Ranch, in Arizona, some 18 miles south of Icanab, Utah, where they have a fenced pasture of several thousand acres, and some 10 or 15 acres of tillable land watered by a spring on Moccasin Ranch of whose full flow the Indians own one-third. He recommended that a competent engineer be directed to measure the flow of the spring and stake out a pipe line and reservoir site; that there be purchased for the Indians from 50 to 100 2-year-old heifers with a suitable number of bulls, and from 50 to 100 high-grade coarse-wwl bucks; and that a strip of land immediately north of the Utah-Arizona State line and adjoining the Navaho Reservation, about 35 miles north and south and 75 miles east and west, be withdrawn for the use of the Indians from all form of settle-ment and entry. These recommendations will soon be carried into effect. Another group of the San Juan Paiutes live in the canyons along the Colorado and San Juan rivers in Utah just north of the Arizona line about 300 miles from Panguitch. Other scattered groups were found in Grass or Rabbit Valley in central Ilkah, a few families at Kanosh, and a few families, known as Pahranagats, in eastern Nevada. The inspector reported them as not needing assistance, and, in fact, as declining to acept anything from the Government. NINE= ENTRIES ON COZVICLE RESERVATION. At the request of this Office an investigation of mineral entries on the Colville Reservation, in Washington, has been made by repre-sentatives of the Gefieral Land Office, and in a number of cases the locators have been directed to show cause why their locations should not be canceled as being nonmineral. In many other cases where patents have issued, the Department of Justice has been requested to institute suits for vacating them. Most of these locations are re-ported to have been made in order to secure title to lands valuable for agricultural or town-site purposes. As the survey of the Colville Reservation has not been finished, allotment of lands on the south half of the reservation is not yet possible. YaRIMA RESERVATION BOUNDARY. 'on February 27, 1906, the General Land Office approved surveying contract No. 632, providing, among other things, for the survey of the boundaries of the Yakima Reservation, in Washington, by straight ' 8 lines running from the headwaters of the South Fork of Atanum River to Spencer Point, thence to Conical Hump, thence to Graybark |