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Red Bluff August 12th 1861

Friend Latham

Mr Hanson the
newly appointed Supt Agent for
the Northern District has
recommended the abendining [abandoning] of the Nome
Lackee Indian Reservation, and is
taking all the Inds stock and
property to Nome cult farm. I
understand that he wishes the reserve
to be sold in a body and if so
sold I presume he or some of his
stock jobbers will get it. I hope
you will see that it is sold
in small parcels from 40 to 320
acres thereby giving a chance to
those that will become actual
settlers, if it is sold in small
parcels at auction it will bring