SURVEY AND SUBDIVISION OF INDIAN TERRITORY 113 
States courts the Territory would long ago have been in a state 
of anarchy. 
This situation of affairs, instead of improving with time, is 
rapidly becoming worse, inasmuch as the number of interlopers 
in the Territoiy is constantly and rapidly increasing. The remedy 
OUTLI.NE .MAP OF INDIAN TERRITORY, SHOWING PROGRESS OF SUHDIVISION SURVEY 
UP TO JANUARY I, 1896. 
for this threatening aspect of affairs is plainly the substitution of 
a territorial government by all inhabitants for the present tribal 
governments of the Indian minority, the allotment of land to 
the Indians, and the con.se<iueiit establishment of land titles. 
Foreseeing the neciissity of this solution, (longnj.ss has for the 
I>ast two years been endeavoring to treat with the tribes for the 
