We have been unable to get any contracts taken in either Oregon or Washington for the survey of agricultural lands at the rates provided for in this bill. Augmented rates are provided for heavily timbered lands and lands covered with thick underbrush. We have had some surveys of those lands at the augmented rates. but the agricultural lands. where the tide of immigration is necessarily setting in. can not be surveyed at these rates. for the deputy surveyors can not make surveys at these rates except at a loss. The surveyorsgeneral have been unable to get any contracts taken at those rates. The surveyorgeneral of my Territory informs me that unless some provision is adopted allowing a discretionary power in reference to some increase of rates the appropriation of last year will lapse. and we shall get no surveys at all.
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