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Office Indian Affairs
San Francisco, Nov 1st 1864

Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that Indian Affairs in California are progressing far better than I had reason to expect six months ago. The non-arrival of the ship with clothing is a serious draw-back and as cold weather approaches I am compelled toprovide some blankets. The mountain Indians who are coming into Round Valley are entirely destitute of any kind of clothing. I am doing the best I can for them and others in like condition. _

I am waiting anxiously for an answer tomy notion in the matter of the Question at Hoopa Valley I am feeding those Indians now, they having brought in all their guns and pistols, I shall endeavor to subsist them in some shape until I can raise a crop, providing the location of a Reservation there be approved in time for me to get in a crop, if not, I shall be compelled to abandon them to the charge of the military authorities as I do not feel authorized to contract