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conduit to supply your motive power department with more water than will be required. The exact volume I only know from hears? for the largest spring and used for irrigating the cultivated. e iy, and this part of ranch was In former letters referring to was made of errors found in the original plat shows the great extent of these there is absolutely no doubt. The majority survey survey errors, and of of the ranch, mention of the township. The of their existence the corners of the public land survey found as shown on plat were dim but sure, others were well marked, and were proved to belong to a general survey system when latter is carefully studied out. Mistakes by ckainmen of original survey of l-£ & Z chains were found and proven. For instance,- I found section corner post _ mound l/2 and therefore very slight 34 36 25 to 29 to be too far Forth by 210 feet, a l/4 corner So mile east and'etidence of a l/4 cor.l/2 mile north, ifter proving that this 210 ft.error was continued with variations of a few feet throughout on Forth line of sections inclusive except on East township line, I concluded the chain- men had made a mistake of Z tally pins (S x 66’= 198 ft). Then to prove that the error was continued through more of the township, I run Forth from section corner 20[ 21 and found corner at 5201 feet and thence East to township line 29f28 finding errors as shown, end no signs of the corners at the proper distances from S.boundary of township.' Had I not found the original survey corners to run in. certain systems, even if the lines were proved to be run. Eas t & West instead of Forth and South as the law required, I would have thrown the job up commended a re-survey of the township, and which is very hard cure from the Gov.land office officials. and re- to se- Where no trace or evidence of the point or place where miss­ing section corners were originally set viz:- the F.E.Cor; the B*W. Cor; and the Forth l/4 Cor of.Section ZZ, I set same in strict conformi­ty with the general instructions relating to missing corners as issued by the General land Office. Others were set from evidence found fixing the locus within a few feet if not closer to the exact point. The centers of sections 25 and 27 were obtained by intersect­ing lines run between the four 1/4 section corners of each section. The forth acre corners were set hair way between the section and l/4 section corners, and centre of section and l/4 sec.corners. I did not take the time to obtain the exact courses to the minute of are owing to Mr.McDermott1s hurry to got, through, and for same reason did not take the time to remark the dim corners off the ranch. For instance the F.W.Cor. and S.l/4 Cor.Sec.£9; the East l/4 Cor See.28; the F.W.Cor & H.l/4 Cor.Sec.25, and all corners on South boundary of township. The exact courses do not cut much figure until close work such as townsites, rights of way,etc. are concerned and the dim corners I did not think best to urge t e resetting and 'marking with good posts until sure you wou d purchase the ranch, when these corners should be re-marked, so as to protect the corners to ranch, and prove accuracy of latter for many years to come. I enclose a letter from Surveyor General's office that may