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Nome Lackee Reser, Sept 24th 1860

Hon A B Greenwood

Sir
The dilapidated and neglected
condition in which I found this Reservation and the
immediate necessity because of the near approach of
planting and seeding time, have induced me to
report to the department throug you, in advance of
the general report which I am instructed to make after
visiting all the Reservations. The buildings generally answer
very well. Fences none except a temporary one much out of
repair enclosing only the main quarters. This Reserve is located
in the centre of the best grazing country in the State, and
the feed in the Sacramento Valley being in a great measure
eaten out and much of the land enclosed which having created
a scarcity of feed for the immense herds owned by persons
squatting in that valley and led them to drive their stock
to the inviting pasturage adjoining this Reserv, which, being
without fence renders it impossible to make a crop, to plough
and seed is only Labor thrown away besides discouragement
to the Indians to work as the see no return for their
labors, there are at this time at least a dozen if not