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to the Indian Village at the upper end of the bay. But very little land has been cultivated. In the immediate vicinity of the employes houses, and the old school house, there is a small field of unclear bayas?, containing perhaps two or three acre. This and a couple of small gardens, attached to the residences of two of the employes comprizes the land under cultivation at this point. What is called the Agency farm, lags to the South, back of cosn? Flattery?, and as the farmer states in his affidavit, transmitted herewith,- is composed of four or five acres of ploughed land. A few potatoes, and other vegetables are growing on it, according to the Statements of the employes.

 This is all the farming there is done on the

reservation. The Indians are not cultivating any land at all. I was not able to reach the place called "the? farm, on account of high water. but I learn that something like a thousand acres of tide lands