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and ects up on the reservation. the modocs was located on Klamath lake, on the east side, near a point. the point is known as modoc point today. named on the account o the modocs being settled there November 1869. Jack in a few days had all his people well settled. about the month of December, he calld on the Indian agent, Knapp at the agency. he told the agent that he wanted chopping axes cross cut saws wedges and maul. rings. he said he wanted to put his men to work. making rails, and ects agent Knapp furnished Jack with what he asked for. Jack went home to the modoc settlement happy in afew days the modoc mean were working like beavers they made nine hundred pine rails in a very short time. it commenced to snow Jack told his mean to quit for the winter as it was bad weather but as soon as the weather would get good in the spring they would comence making rails again. it only snowed a day or so, and quit the snow soon melted off. Jack concluded to comence work again. the modocs went out one morning to work only split a few rails. long come five or six Klamath Indians with their wagons and teams, and loading their wagons with the rails that Jacks mean had, made. drove out of site in the timber. Jack and his men did not stop work. Jack told his men