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Show "School Sections" and that a corporation known as the •, 7 Antelope Shearing Corral has leased all of these small scattered areas that are available and thereby control an exceedingly large area of these unsold lands. I am advised that this corporation holds leases on something like eighty thousand (80,000) acres of these scattered homesteads and school sections and that by virtue of ,y these leases they run some eighty thousand (8©, 000) head of sheep from about Oct. 15 to about April 15 of each year. The eighty thousand (80,000) acres that this corporation claims to hold under lease would not' support to exceed eight thousand (3,000) head of sheep during this period, hence it is securing winter forage for seme seventy two (72,000) thousand head of sheep on lands that it does not hold under lease, and this office is certain that a large portion of these 3heep are wintered j on lands such as we have attempted to describe.. If small sheep-owners attempt to place their sheep on these lands they immediately get in trouble with the Corporation and suit is instituted to collect trespass. We feel that such of these Indian lands as remain unsold should be leased for the benefit of the Indians and should continue to be so leased until sold." The surplns land within Indian reservations, the sale of which has been authorized by Congress, may be divided generally .into two classes- (l) Those ceded to, and pur- • chased by, the United States outright, payment being made -A-therefor in cash or its equivalent,, and- (2) ThosH. ceded nig to the United States conditionally or in trust, to be ,dis-3 posed of for the benefit of the Indians.. On June 27, 1911, the Indian Office wrote the Secretary of the Interior relative to the status of the unsold land within the ceded portion of the Round Valley Reservation, California, in part . " ' " ' * • " - ' •'•>.. •-' .; '-. as follows: ..... ]';'.. yy.; •This being the case, the Indian title apparently -3- |