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Show 3,929 aer-33. This leaves, unaccounted for- IS,327 acroa. This includes land on "which thoro is no leaso, no farming by Indians and no advertisement for sals. Some :t>-id Theoretically, and according to tho maps of tho Basin, Cannot be Subdued all of this allotted land Is under the Government ditches. As a fact, the topography of thousands of acres of this land is such that water could net be gotten cn to It from the 'Government ditches, except -with a steam fire nnrine. harry of the allotments are rough and uneven and practically impossible of leveling. On scans of the allotments which I irirtTrod, there ur» buttea and sr-ail mountains and sand dunes varying in height, above the ditoh, from 20 to 2S0 foot. fVeral Sf the allotments on which I was could not have b*«n plowwd axcopt, poasiMy, by a battery of artillery, could not be seeded exeunt Ttirh shotruns, and, if the seed terminated by any chance, the crops could rot be harvested a-eont by th* uco of Zeppelins. I have no information aa to the personnel of the alloting commissions, but it appears perfectly clear to ma that they ;' •7/ent cr-t of their way to give at least eomo of the Indians the _ ,. . . -wcrst of It in allotting those lands. It -ran fair to assume, Indians -ST. r> the Worst W It. particularly a* the time tha allotments novo mado, that tho Indians should bo given tho best land in the Basin. This was |