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mountains, otherwise to labor through the
harvest for a subsistence, and especially did
I condemn every employee, who had a knowledge
of the intended masacre, and either winked at
the same or clandestinely aided in its
consumation, (the guilty will all be discharged
as soon as I can supply their places.)

Some of them viewed my proposition for
renting & paying others for their planted crops very
favorably others, do not.

Thus, Hat Creek & Con-Cow tribes, (numbering
now only some 350) who had left the
Round Valley reservation last Oct. and who I had
placed under the care of an employee on the
Sacramento River on the lands of Maj J. Bidwell
are still at that point, and have been provided
for through the winter incuring a debt of
less than two thousand dollars - This was done
by allowing the Indians to work on farms and
public roads for a remuneration, when
opportunities of such kinds offered, thereby economizing
all they posibly could. If I can make no
purchase of crops in Round Valley for these tribes
they must remain for a time, as the Indians who
raise new crops in the Valley, would see the
injustice at once, of the Hat Creek & Concows returning
& devouring the substance of their hard labor.

I have the honor to be yr. Obt. Sevt.
G. M. Hanson
Suptg Agt &c