4

3

Indians. He also informs me that pretty much all the Owen's River Indians which were moved to the Tejon Reservation two years since have left and returned to their old haunts. What few are left I will cause to be moved to the Tule River farm It is much to be regretted that Government could not have held possession of the Tejon Rancho, for Reservation purposes. It was originally the peaceable abode of many indians and having been taken possession of by the Department for a Reservation, and having an immense amount of Government money expended upon it in that capacity, it is certainly a hardship, not to use a [illegible] term, that the indians should be driven from it to seek new abodes upon rented farms contiguous to white settlements, and their fine pasture lands and fields given over to the herds and labours of he who expended the Government money in improving the lands for the astensible benefit of the Indians. I refer to E. F Beale, who holds possession of the entire ranch under Government patent. There is some little Government property on the ranch yet which Mr Beale is modest enough to admit belongs to the Indian Department. In charge of this Mr Wentworth has a Supervisor and employe. I have