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twenty squatters on the land immediately adjoining the Reserv,
on all sides of it and all owning stock, a few of whom are
making farms with a view of settling, but the majority only
to graze and raise stock their business being trading in
stock, cattle horses &c none of them seeming to have any regard
for the rights of the poor Indian their stock is turned on
grain fields if Indians attempt to drive them off they
are threatened with being shot and have been severely beaten
for trying to protect their grain, til at last they could neither
be persuaded nor forced to drive the stock from the fields without
being accompanied and protected by some of the employees.
Under such a state of things you will easily perceive the
utter impossibility of raising and saving a crop

The past season some three hundrerd acres was ploughed and
seeded with wheat rye and barley and from the appearances
of straw and stubble on the ground must have produced [illegible]
but was nearly all destroyed, by hard work and close working
260 Buck-wheat 600 of Rye and 60 or 70 Bushels Barley
are all that could be saved and is now on hand

If this Reserv, is to be continued provision must immediately
be made to fence a portion of it at least and the only way
this can be accomplished in time is to purchase sawed lumber
and have post and board fence made, as there is but little
timber on the Reserv, and the little there is I have already given
orders to have cut and put into fencing