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good service in preventing illegal squatters from cutting hay on, or removing it from the reservation. In fact cheerfully furnishing all detail for the services required judging from your letter of the 6th and one of the 8th inst. just received from the Surveyor (here with enclosed) for I think a still further delay probable during which I propose to continue and complete my personal examination and apprisement of all improvement known to be on the reservation. I have been thus engaged for the past four weeks (driving from 25 to 40 miles daily) and am now having a pack train with [strike] and military escort with company outfit &c, and will leave here on the 13th hoping to make the entire round by the 20, when I shall complete my report as directed by your letter of -- no -- when I will be ready for other duty unless the out boundry survey shall be completed.

    Mr. Stallstiners (the local agent here) informs me that he finds a post (burnt off) lying on the ground at a point where the D & RG R R crosses the Colorado State line in Sec 11 T 32 N Range 3 West said post being marked SECSUR which he construes to be the South East Corner of Southern Ute Reservation and hence claims that to be the 107 degree of West longitude thus trhowing out (for the use of settlers) some seven miles of the east end of the Southern Ute Reserve