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Upper Station, administering the Medicine himself when they needed it. I further directed Mr Whipple to lease the place, Lower head quarters, to some one man who would take care of the property, and give him possession of it. The Indians that were idling about there I instructed him to move to the Upper Station, and put them to work, and see that they remained there. On this Reservation, as at Round Valley, the character of personal property is poor indeed; in fact almost entirely exhausted. The farming implements are not worth putting in a report at all. Mr Whipple assures me that he would not have been able to get the crop in last Spring had he not used his own and borrowed teams and plows. He has nothing whatever to harvest with but I will send up some Sickles, Cradles, and rakes in time to save the Crops. So that you may form an idea of the value of the personal property there, which looks so well on paper, I will say that I do not believe $1500.00 could be realized today for Every head of stock and every peice of personal property on the Reservation. I trust therefore, that the Department will loose no time in