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Round Valley Oct 10th 1863

To E Steele Esq
Superintending Agt Northern Dist Cal.

Sir
On the 21st August last I made sale &
contract with your predecesser Hanson
as represented by enclosed copy's, Vouchers &
Treasury drafts, the cattle now marked
[illegible] but in fact were turned into the
pasture of White & Gibson at fifty cents per
month per head to await the payment of
the Treasury drafts, the cattle an half
broods here are tame & docile, [illegible]
the band of fifty, more [entend?] at 20 cows
now a part of these steers - The cows are of
good quality some first rate, the wheat &
barley are yet in my possession, awaiting the
payment of the draft. The land & improvements
are also in my possession, if the sale of the
improvements should not be affirmed by the
department the wheat was to be at the rate of
one & a half cents per pound in coin. & barley
at same rate. The sale of all this property
was fixed at coin prices and twenty in
the cent added in the vouchers & draft to
cover the losses in legal tender notes
The improvement are maintained at quite an
expense and if the sale depends upon a
[spend?] appropriation the whole of the plan