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T. 14 N., R. 13 W., 9,606.29 acres as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, and 29.

T. 15 N., R. 13 W., 8,979 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, and 35.

T. 16 N., R 13 W., 11,356.45 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, and 35.

T. 14 N., R. 14 W., 5,131.44 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 23.

T. 15 N., R. 14 W., 8,318.34 acres, as follows: All of sections 3 and 5, NW. and S. 2 sec. 7, all of sections 9, 13, 15, and 17, NE. 4 and S. 2 sec. 19, W. 2 sec. 21, all of sections 25, 27, and 29, S. 2 sec. 31, S. 2 sec. 33, all of section 35.

T. 16 N., R. 14 W., 10,578.88 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, N. 1⁄2 sec. 15, all of sections 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, and 29, W. 1⁄2 sec. 31, NE. 14 and W. 2 sec. 33, all of section 35.

T. 15 N., R. 15 W., 6,889.97 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15, E. 1⁄2 and Frl. W. 2 sec. 17, all of sections 21 and 23.

T. 16 N., R. 15 W., 9,601.40 acres, as follows: All of sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11, E. 1⁄2 sec. 13, all of section 15, NW. 4 and E. 2 sec. 17, NW. 4 and S. 2 sec. 19, all of sections 21 and 23, NW 4 sec. 27, all of sections 29, 31, 33, and 35. Total in McKinley County, N. Mex., 117,918.05 acres.

LANDS OF NEW MEXICO & ARIZONA LAND CO., NORTH AND WEST OF PRINCIPAL BASE AND MERIDIAN OF NEW MEXICO, SAN JUAN COUNTY, N. MEX.

T. 21 N., R. 12 W., 5,760.24 acres, as follows: All of sections 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, and 35. Total in San Juan County, N. Mex., 5,760.24 acres.

According to Mr. Stacher and Mr. Roblin in statements made at the Santa Fe conference all of this land should be secured.

In addition to the lands adjacent to the reservation which it is hoped to acquire for the Indians by purchase or exchange, there are certain other lands in segregated districts adjacent to the Ramah, Canoncito, and Puertocito groups of Indians which it is desired to secure and block up for these various groups, and concerning which there has already been much negotiation and correspondence.

Ramah.-There are about 335 Ramah Indians. The lands which it is desired to secure for their use lie in townships 10 north, ranges 15 and 16 west, and 9 north, ranges 14, 15, and 16 west. In townships 10 north and 15 and 16 west 14 sections have been bought from the Vogt Sheep Co. (see above); i. e., 8,960 acres at $2.50 per acre. There are 10,877.6 acres more in possession of the McKinley Land & Lumber Co., which can be bought at $2.25 per acre and which are much needed by these Indians. This would amount to $24,474.60.

Canoncito.-The Canoncito band of Navajos are located east of the Laguna territory. For years Mr. Stacher and others have been working to get an area set aside for their use. It has been a subject of much correspondence and negotiation and should be buttoned up as now planned. This would involve the purchase from the Santa Fe Railway of 24,506.42 acres, as follows, at $1 per acre:

T. 9 N., R. 3 W.

T. 10 N., R. 3 W.
T. 11 N., R. 3 W.
T. 11 N., R. 4 W.

Total

Acres 7,679.83 5, 328. 90 10, 236. 50 1, 171. 39

24, 506. 62

Puertocito.-The Puertocito band is located in Socorro County along the Rio Salado and is in even greater need of attention than the Canoncito group. It is proposed to buy for them 24,868.14 acres of Santa Fe land, as follows:

NEW MEXICO MERIDIAN, NEW MEXICO

T. 2 N., R. 5 W., secs. 7 and 19; T. 2 N., R. 6 W., secs. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, and 35; T. 3 N., R. 6 W., secs. 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, and 35; T. 2 N., R. 7 W., secs. 1, 3, and 13; T. 3 N., R. 7 W., secs. 23, 25, and 27. Total, 24,868.14 acres.

And certain ranches of Jose Chavez Y Baca described and valued as follows: 1. Ranch No. 1, described the NE. 14 NW. 4, NW. 4 NE. 4, S. 1⁄2 NE. 4 sec. 24, T. 3 N., R. 6 W. Total acreage 160, and improvements as follows: One

pole corral and one barbed-wire corral built with 8-strand barbed wire; one dug well, 25 feet deep, with water. Total value of improvements. $400.

2. Ranch No. 2, described the S. 2 SW. 4, W. 1⁄2 SE. 14 sec. 24, T. 3 N., R. 7 W. Total acres 160, and improvements as follows: Three pole corrals; one 16-room stone residence dwelling, roofed with red roofing iron; one frame barn; one dug well, 9 feet deep, with plenty of water. Total cost of improvements on ranch No. 2, $1,000.

3. Ranch No. 3, described the W. 2 NW. 4, SE. 4 NW. 4, NE. 4 SW. sec. 24, T. 2 N., R. 6 W. No improvements on this ranch.

4. Ranch No. 4, described the W. 2 NE. 4, SE. 4 NW. 4, NW. 1⁄4 NW. sec. 26, T. 2 N., R. 6 W., and improvements as follows: One 2-room stone residence building, one pole corral, one dirt tank, plenty of good spring running water. Total improvements on ranch No. 4, $500.

5. Ranch No. 5, described the NE. 4 of sec. 24, T. 2 N., R. 7 W.; total acres 160, and improvements as follows: Two pole corrals, one seep spring, one 2-room stone residence dwelling. Total value of improvements on ranch No. 5, $800.

6. Ranch No. 6, described the SE. 4 of sec. 4, T. 2 N., R. 6 W., and improvements as follows: One 2-room stone residence house roofed with good red roofing iron; one dug well 10 feet deep, complete with windmill; one dirt tank. Total cost of improvements, $1,000.

7. Ranch No. 7, described the N. 2 NW. 4, W. 1⁄2 SW. sec. 8, T. 2 N., R. 6 W., and improvements as follows: One 2-room adobe residence house; one 3-room stone residence house; one dirt tank; one dug well, 30 feet deep, with plenty of water and curbed; one cement tank and one good windmill; running water coming from spring. Total cost of improvements on ranch No. 7, $1,200. 8. Ranch No. 8, described the SW. 4 of sec. 4, T. 2 N., R. 6 W., and improvements, to wit: All of the land is fenced in under a 4-strand barbed-wire fencing costing $200.

9. Ranch No. 9 contains 160 acres in sec. 2, T. 2 N., R. 6 W., and improvements as follows: One dug well with water, being 10 feet deep; one 2-room stone residence house; one pole corral. Total improvements on ranch No. 9, $400.

Total value of improvements on the nine ranches, $5,500. The total contemplated needs, therefore, of these three isolated districts are:

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which is just about the amount left unexpended of the $1,200,000 authorization of May 29, 1929.

At the Santa Fe conference it was, as I remember, definitely stated by Mr. Stacher and Mr. Collinson that a gratuity appropriation had been made by Congress for the purchase of the Puertocito tracts above listed. It was also stated that, in their opinion, it was the intention or idea of the Indian Office that gratuity apropriations should be asked for the Canoncito and for the Ramah purchases.

At the tribal councils, while the Indians did not definitely state that they would absolutely disapprove of the use of tribal funds for the purchase of these three segregated tracts, they did indicate that they were adverse to the use of these funds for such purposes. However, as appears above, 8,960 acres of the Vogt tract costing $22,400 has already been bought and paid for out of the oil moneys as part of the $1,200,000 sum authorized.

On my arrival here in Washington, Messrs. Marschalk, Campbell, and others stated that they know nothing of any gratuity appropriation for either the Puertocito or Canoncito purchases. This is confirmed by Mr. Dodd, budget officer of the bureau. It is, therefore, evident that if these lands are acquired by purchase, they will either have to be bought out of the $1,200,000 fund or from gratuity appropriations made through new legislation.

III. Exchange.-The act of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1225-1239), authorizes reconveyance and relinquishment of lands in lieu selections therefor in San

Juan, McKinley, and Valencia Counties, N. Mex. The regulations governing exchanges under this act are dated September 19, 1922, General Land Office circular No. 850 (copy annexed hereto). These regulations were discussed at the Sante Fe conference (see minutes), and it was the consensus of opinion there that they are unnecessarily complicated, and that this complicated procedure therein required was responsible in no small degree that no exchange had ever been consummated under this law. Only one offer has been received under the act, and this is from the Santa Fe Pacific Railway Co. and involves about 23,000 acres of land in the Crown Point district. The railroad lands in townships 12 east, 18 and 19 north are to be exchanged for Government lands of like amount in townships 11 east, 18, 19, 20 north. At the suggestion of the Indian superintendent and the land commissioner for the railroad company the offer was submitted to the General Land Office on January 11 for consideration. After my arrival here I called on Commissioner Moore and Assistant Commissioner Havell of the General Land Office with Messrs. Marschalk and Campbell and went over the situation with them. Doctor Marschalk and Mr. Havell agreed that the question of how the exchanges could be effected under the law and what changes in the regulations so as to simplify the procedure ought to be made should be submitted to the Secretary for his consideration in a letter to be signed by the commissioner of the General Land Office and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Such letter was prepared; a copy thereof is annexed bereto. It is respectfully recommended that this letter be given immediate consideration by the solicitor for the department with the view of defining the issue definitely and providing a clear method for making the act effective.

Amendments were proposed by the Santa Fe conference for amending these regulations; a memorandum as to that was there signed by the various superintendents and is as follows:

"Proposed amendment to instructions contained in Circular No. 850, Department of the Interior, General Land Office, dated September 19, 1922, relating to the act of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1225, 1239), authorizing reconveyances and relinquishments of lands and lieu selected therefor in San Juan, Valencia, and McKinley Counties, N. Mex.

"When lands are occupied or used by Indians and a tentative agreement has been reached between the railroad company and the Indian Department representative the matter of exchange will be submitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. If the commissioner finds the exchange to be in the public interest he will recommend to the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of the General Land Office to request the railroad company to relinquish its lands to the United States by proper deed and abstract, and authorize exchange of other lands specifically described in lieu thereof. Such exchange being in the interest of the United States, as the railroad relinquishes patented lands, patent without reservations and without charge will be issued for lieu lands, and all fees and expenses of the General Land Office will be waived. "Approved January 24, 1930.

"S. F. STACHER.
"CHAS. E. ROBLIN.
"JOHN G. HUNTER.
"C. E. FARIS.
"T. W. CABEEN.
"W. B. COLLINSON."

Mr. Havell did not think, when I submitted this to him, that so simple a procedure could be provided for, but he did indicate that he thought that the regulations could be greatly simplified.

IV. Allotments.-The Indian population of the Navajo country in Arizona and New Mexico is reported to be about 38,000. Of this number approximately 8,000 reside on the public domain adjacent to the reservations established for the Navajos, generally. A large percentage of these Indians are located in San Juan and McKinley Counties, N. Mex., and the others are scattered throughout the area from Crown Point, N. Mex., on the east to Flagstaff, Ariz., on the west. About 3,750 of these Indians have received individual allotments of 160 acres each under section 4 of the general allotment act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388), as amended. Most of these allotments were made prior to the year 1928.

In the early part of April, 1928, Mr. Charles E. Roblin, special allotting agent, was detailed to the Navajo country and began the work of assisting the unallotted Navajos in filing applications for land under the above-mentioned act. Mr. Roblin's last report indicates that he has filed a total of 259 applications. Twenty-five year trust patents have been issued on practically all of the allotments made prior to the year 1928. Similar patents have been issued on about 50 per cent of those made since that date. The allotment work to date is briefly summarized in the following table:

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It will be observed that the figures shown in the table are merely estimated, as the actual numbers are unknown. It may be said in this connection that Mr. Roblin places the number of unallotted Indians at approximately 6,000. Up to the present time the allotment work has been almost entirely confined to the eastern Navajo jurisdiction in New Mexico, but it is planned to extend the work to the other jurisdictions as rapidly as circumstances permit.

Some criticism has been directed against Mr. Roblin for being overzealous in his work in the Navajo country, and it was said that he had in some instances persuaded Indians residing on reservation lands to go upon the public domain for the purpose of securing allotments. This, however, he denies; and it is a fact that he has been consistently instructed to confine his efforts to assisting Indians who were residing on the public domain prior to June 30, 1914.

With respect to the policy of the Indian Service in allotting Navajo Indians on the public domain, it may be said in justification that it is only giving individual Indians who are properly qualified a right to acquire ownership of an individual tract of land, which he has in many cases occupied and improved or used for beneficial purposes for a number of years. In this way, to some extent, at least, he is placed on an equal footing with the white citizen who is permitted, under the public land laws, to acquire public land for a home site. Nearly all the Navajo Indians living off the reservation are living within the territory embraced in the Santa Fe land grant; that is, within a strip 80 miles wide, through which runs the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad. In this strip every alternate section is now, or was at one time, the property of the railroad company, and all of it, however owned, now comes under the head of privately owned land.

As it has an important bearing on the duration of the period of trust covered by the patents issued to these Indians (and other Indians on the public domain) prior to December 7, 1920, attention is invited to Executive order of that date which reads as follows:

"It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred and twenty-five and three hundred and twenty-six), that the trust or other period of restriction against alienation contained in any patent heretofore issued to any Indian for any lands on the public domain be, and the same is hereby, extended for a further period of 25 years from the date on which any such trust would otherwise expire.

THE WHITE HOUSE, December 7, 1920.

FINANCING

WOODROW WILSON.

According to information so far furnished me through the finance division of the Indian Office and other officials of the office since my arrival here (February, 1930) the

Total amount of money received and credited to the Navajo tribal funds since July 1, 1921, and up to July 1, 1929 (that is, fiscal years 1922-1929, inclusive), was_.

$785, 680.25

In addition there was received and credited to the fund between
July 1, 1929, and Jan. 31, 1930----

126, 003, 90

Total receipts

911, 684. 15

Amount expended or hypothecated according to said statements in same period-

Showing a balance as of Feb. 1, 1930, of‒‒‒‒‒‒‒

In another statement, however, the balance on Feb. 1 is stated to be..

$885, 097.42

26, 585.73

25, 245. 61

The statements so far furnished me upon which the above résumé is based are as follows:

STATEMENT 1.—Statement of the tribal fund known as “ Indian moneys, proceeds of labor, Navajo Indians (oil royalty and leases)," to and including June 30, 1929

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