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rocks and back to the power boat. They were on the rocks from thirty to forty 

 minutes. While they were shooting, the birds were flying in every direction 

 from being molested and we have seen no sea-lions on the rocks since. This 

 power boat had about ten or fifteen persons aboard, and we think was from 

 Tillamook Bay." 



In talking with Mr. Steele since that time, he said that he spent several 

 days in Tillamook, but was unable to get sufficient evidence to warrant bringing 

 the matter into the Federal court. 



The situation in regard to Malheur Lake Reservation, which was created 

 by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt, on August 18, 1908, is 



MR. AND MRS. VERNON BAILEY FEEDING GULLS NEAR THREE ARCH ROCKS 



RESERVATION, OREGON 



Photographed by William L. and Irene Finley 



substantially as follows: The Government had completed plans to file an 

 injunction to determine their right and title to their share of the water of 

 Silvies and BHtzen Rivers. Percy Cupper, State Engineer for Oregon, appealed, 

 through our representatives in Congress, to the Biological Survey to withold 

 the suit until a conference was held. This was done and representatives from 

 both the state and Federal government met in Salem during the spring of 

 192 1. The proposition put up by State Engineer Cupper was to divide the 

 lake into two parts, building a dyke to separate the east and west parts of the 

 lake, the state to have the western end, and the Government the eastern end. 

 Many of those who are interested in seeing Malheur Lake Reservation 

 saved have taken the stand that this would be a reasonable solution providing 

 the state would stand the expense of buUding the dyke, which should extend 

 across the lake in a northerly and southerly direction west of both the mouths 

 of Silvies River on the north and Blitzen River on the south, and that there 



