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Office Supt Indian Affairs
Southern District of Cal
December 3d 1862

Hon Wm. P. Dole,
Comr Indian Affairs
Washington, DC

Sir,
I desire
to call your attention to the Indians of
my District inhabiting what is known
as the Owens River Country, lying on the
Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada- I
desire to make an especial report on the
condition of those Indians because they
need the attention of the Government most
and have received it less, than those of any
other portion of the State.

On my return
from Washington last May, I found
the Southern Country filled with apprehension
of a destructive Indian War, threatening
to desolate the sparsely settled region, bordering
on the Great Desert- already has=