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Sa *>; Pedro, L os A ngeles & L ake Railroad C ompany. t. E. GIBBON, General Counsel. C. O. WHITTEMORE, General Attorney. Office of General Attorney. COPY. Vegas .Ranch, Fov. ?th, 1902. Hen* Oh&s* 0. Whitt eiaore, Salt lake City, Utah* Dear Sir - Bill lining you are anxious to receive a report from as 1 will send an incomplete one since I find I cannot complete counting all the stock for eight ©r tan days yet, 1 had to depend upon Harry Stewart to plan and arrange for getting1 the stock together said yesterday he thought the time had come to find them near together down the wash* We all went down and drove everything in 'sight to a common point, hut could only count 70 head, this added to the 277 now in the pasture made a total of only 347 head » I showed my displeasure ih an unmistakable manner, which had a good effect, for this morning the Stewarts agreed to put four Indians in the field- with my man Smith, for ten days and to stand all expense of hoard and wages -except Smith’s wages, and the plan is now as it should he ' HI first, to drive all the cattle into the pasture when they can be seen and counted* When that is done, we will try and see as many of the horses as possible, but can’t very well get them in an enclosure as they are hard to run down, I have had quite a time with the family, especially about the grave-yard proposition, but at last we.have come to an agreement, The north line of the ranch is to be the : north line of the plot which is a change north of 121 ft,, and it will be moved further west 100 ft., thereby giving us a free passage between the plot and the creek, and making a decided improvement for us and equally as good