THE TREATY OF 1864. Ixiii 



treaty with these Indians more forcibly before the Government than ever 

 before. In compHance with instructions from Indian Commissioner Will- 

 iam P. Dole, Superintendent J. W. Perit Huntington, accompanied by 

 Agent Logan, went through the Des Chutes Valley to Fort Klamath, and 

 found there a large number of Indians of both sexes assembled, seven hun- 

 "dred and ten of whom were Klamath Lake, three hundred and thirty-nine 

 Modoc people, and twenty-two of the Yahuskin band of Snake Indians. 

 They unanimously concurred in the desire that Lindsey Applegate, a settler 

 of Jackson County Oregon, be appointed as their agent. The treaty was 

 concluded on the 14th of October, LS64, and duly signed by the contract- 

 ing parties, including twenty-six chiefs and principal men of the tribes. 

 Huntington's estimate of funds necessary for fulfilling treaty stipulations 

 and subsisting the Indians the first year amounted to a total of $69,400. 

 The text of the treaty being too long for insertion entire, I restrict myself 

 here to the contents of the principal paragraphs : 



Article 1 stipulates the cession of the territory described above (p. xvi), 

 and sets apart as a reservation for the tribes referred to the tract included 

 within the limits following : Beginning upon the Point of Rocks, about 

 twelve miles south of the mouth of Williamson River,* the boundary follows 

 the eastern shore north to the mouth of Wood River; thence up Wood 

 River to a point one mile north of the bridge at Fort Klamath ; thence du3 

 east to the summit of the ridge wiiich divides the upper and middle Klamath 

 Lakes (now called Klamath Marsh and Upper Klamath Lake); thence 

 along said ridge to a point due east of the north end of the upper lake; thence 

 due east, passing the said noi-th end of the upper lake to the summit of the 

 mountains on the east side of the lake; thence along said mountain to the 

 point where Sprague's River is intersected by the Ish-tisli-ea-wax Creek 

 (probably Meryl Creek); then in a southerly direction to the summit of the 

 mountain, the extremity of which forms the Point of Rocks ; thence along 

 said mountain to the place of beginning. The tribes will remove to this 

 reservation immediately after the ratification of the treaty and remain 

 thereon. No whites, except employes and officers of the United States 

 Government, are allowed to reside upon this tract, and the Indians have 



*At the foot of Nilakshi Mountain. 



