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is objectionably for a military Depot. -
Already the Government has [illegible] many
thousands of dollars in sending, and keeping
troops there to suppress difficulties, that
would never have occurred, had Congress
appropriated a year ago, for this reservation.
The discovery of Gold and Silver mines in
the ranges of mountains, on the borders of
the Great Basin, make what was, three years
ago, an unknown region, at this time a great
thoroughfare, and the importance of averting
such a calamity as an Indian War, is
more pressing as it would prevent travel,
and deprive the country of valuable resoures
made known by the energies of our hardy
pioneers.

It would be impossible to [reserve?]
the Indians of the mine. Southerly portion of
my District to this proposed Reservation, because
the rigor of the climate is such, that it
would be difficult to keep them during the
[illegible] past of the year, when snow
covers the ground, even if the [expense?] of
removing them was not an insurmountable