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San Bernardino Sept 30th/58

Col Kendrick

Since you left this place we have learned that the Indians in Yucaipa will remove from that place to some valley east of that which they have in view for their permanent home if they can get as much as four or five hundred dollars for their improvements in Yucaipa.

If the Superintendent would appropriate four or five hundred dollars for these Indians they might be moved peaceably and to the great benefit of the Indians and the whites. While the Indians remain in Yucaipa so short a distance from San Bernardino they will be continually drunk and making mischief among the whites. Of this you are doubtless aware already from what you have seen in the streets of this place heretofore.

There are from one to one hundred and fifty Indians Yucaipa and more than half this number may be seen every day in drunkeness or tramping to and from San Bernardino the certain pool of this intoxication, and when we look at their condition we can but see that to locate them more remote from this place would be of no small benefit to them, besides it would be taking from our midst an intolerable nuisance.

Out of the amount of money appropriated