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farmer where good crops have been harvested and they are well provided for. Of the eight hundred Indians on the farm about three hundred and fifty are of the Owens River tribe, and all seem comfortable and satisffied. Their houses are built of posts put in the ground and covered with split boards and are very comfortble.
This farm consists of twelve hundred nd eighty acres of land of which about three hundred are cultivatble and is owned by Mr. T.P. Madden from whom it was rented by former Suptg Agent Wentworth. The crops are excellent this season, much better than on any frm in that section of the country, owing principally to the fact tht the crop was sowed very early and to the exertions of the Agent in charge in carefully attending it.
I am confident that there need be no lack of food at this point. The climate of Tule River Valley is generally considered rather unhealty but the proximity of the agency to the mountains to which the

farmer where good crops have been harvested and they are well provided for. Of the eight hundred Indians on the farm about three hundred and fifty are of the Owens River tribe, and all seem comfortable and satisffied. Their houses are built of posts put in the ground and covered with split boards and are very comfortble.
This farm consists of twelve hundred nd eighty acres of land of which about three hundred are cultivatble and is owned by Mr. T.P. Madden from whom it was rented by former Suptg Agent Wentworth. The crops are excellent this season, much better than on any frm in that section of the country, owing principally to the fact tht the crop was sowed very early and to the