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Show I wish to pick out the better agricultural areas along the creeks and establish Indian townsites there, giving to each Indian room enough for his house and a small garden, allotting him a further part of his allotment in the second qualityof agricultural land a little farther out, and the rest in grazing land beyond that. Superintendent Carroll, at Mescalero, discovered this common-sense plan independ-ently of the office, and deserves great credit for this and other plans he is initiating. ~rocedurea long these lines will go far to put an end to the old cry "the Indians will not live on their allotments." Each of these little townsites will naturally group itself around a day school. It will be a good center for church work. The relations between the Indian and the trader, sure to become established there, will im-prove. The boy who has learned carpentering and blacksmithing, returning from the nonreservation school, will lind work awaiting him. The status of the allotn~ent work in the field briefly summed up, is as follows (Table 17): Moqui, Ariz.Specia1 Allotting Agent hlathew M. Murphy has been making allotments to the Indians on this reservation under the provisions of the act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1021). The act provides for allotments in such areas as the Secretary of the Interior may determine. On February 26, 1909, the department authorized ap allotment of 40 acres of agricultural and 320 acres of grazing lands to be made to' each Indian entitled. Tentative allotments have been made to some 456 Indians, and it is believed the work will be completed within a few months. Navajo extension (Arizona and New Mezico).-Executive orders of November 9, 1907, and January 28, 1908, extended the boundarias of the Navajo Reservation over certain lands in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico. Special Allotting Agents Riilliam M. Peterson and Joseph G. Kent have been engaged during the past year in making allotments to t h k ~ a v a j oIn dians within this exten-sion. They have completed allotments of 80 acres of agricultural or 160 of grazing lands to. some 1,667 Indians. On December 1, 1908, the allotments within that part of the extension in New Mexico ' east of the first guide meridian, west, having been completed, the President, by executive order of December 30, 1908, restored the surplus unallotted lands there to the public domain. Allotments within the extelision west of the fugt guide meridian, in Sew Mexico, have been practically completed, and it is expected that the surplus lands in this part of the extension will be restored to the public domain by executive order in the near future. Pakz; CaZ.-This reservation-aim about 4,000 acres, composed of irrigable, agricultural, grazing, and waste lands. There are |