The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-02-17
MORE LIGHT ON SURVEYS
Continued from list Page.

applications for land located in
Kootenai Valley, Idado, had been
made, embracing the town of
Bonner's Ferry, in this state, and
requesting an investigation be made.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office, in conveying the said
letter from the Indian Bureau to
me, directed that l do NOT approve
surveys of T. 81 ~. r. 1 e., or any
other surveys embracing lands in
the possession, occupation and use
of Indian inhabitants, or covered
by their houses and improvements,
"until / had exercised the greatest
care to insure the designation Of all
such lands upon the official town
ship plats, to the end that the
rights of the Indian occupants may
be fully protected in the disposal
of the lands"
The necessary correspondence be-
tween this Office and Deputy Rob
inson, in connection with the sur
vey of this township before his
notes were put in condition for APP
prevail, lasted until January 4, 1894,
when his final satisfactory returns
were received here. Then the work
on the usual official plats and
transcripts were performed in this
office, and said plats and trans
scripts have since been submitted
to the Hon. Commissioner of the
General land Office.
There were no unnecessary de-
lays whatever in this case; on the
otherhand, had | not recommended
acceptance of the surveys of that
township, in advance of the com
pletion of Deputy Robinson's con
tract No. 155, the approval of the
survey of the township in which
Bonner's Ferry is situated would
have been deferred until all of his
work had been satisfactorily per
formed and the necessary office
work here completed in connection
Herewith, which would not be in
, its regular order until probably
r sometime next fall.
Idaho is a pretty large state
$4,000 worth of field contracts are
now outstanding and $1,000 ad
ditional about to be awarded il
4 other contracts. For various rea
e sons in each instance, and from al
parts if this state, come request
for early action as to particula
contracts. The people of Pocatello
+ situated in the heart of an Indial
5 reservation, have for fifteen month
:, been praying for the approval 0
q surveys for allotment purposes
made under a contract which wa
awarded in January, 1892. Their
n is urgent reason for the earlies
j possible action in that case. TIL
r state c,.;d of land commissioner
have for months been urging tn
usual necessary office work in con
nection with the approval of sur
a veys of land made for state selection
n purposes. In this case again ther
) is an emergency for immediat
: action. Several United States der
uty surveyors, now under contract
5 in Idaho, are urging the plattin
lie and transcribing of their returns i
IS this office, required to be done hel
p before | can submit their matter
the Hon. Commissioner for fni
action, and in time to prevent tt
u appropriation, from which IL
I'd surveys are made payable, fro
r lapsing into the Treasury. He
"a again is an emergency.
The several foregoing claims upC
this office from all over Idaho, f
ne early action upon survey return
he are as pressing and as just as a
Sc those of Bonner's Ferry. Certai
et ly neither your people nor yourst
have cause to complain under t
circumstances
TX This office is crowded with wo
tn with half enough clerk hire appr
err priation to accomplish it, the appr
~ priations for the office not beii
. commensurate with those for t
~ field service. The returns OF Dep
" ty Surveyors are filed here in t
la order of their receipt in conditi
lat for approval and the rule is to ia
no them up in that order
In the case of Bonner's Ferl
~ survey of T. 81 ~, of r. 1,