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making such trouble for the Indians and for me.  I am in continual warfare, almost every allotment being in conflict of some sort.  But the people are learning and I see considerable progress.  The allotment work is a great education to them, and they are getting daily new ideas and developing toward citizenship.

Your words in parting with me sing in my memory.  You told me what you wanted to do here & bade me task look you & report to you.  I have been looking for you and now I attempt the difficult and delicate task of reporting what I have seen.  I do this confidentially and beg of you to so treat it.

First let me reiterate that this location presents unusual natural advantages for a training school.  The surrounding influences could be better and will improve as the country becomes more thickly settled and advanced in the standards of living and culture.  The climate is suited to the children living between the Cascade and Rocky Mts. and the ample tracts of agricultural land here, the use of irrigation, the good pastures.  All fit the needs of a large school.  When the care of stock, the raising & care of fruit, not to mention the ordinary farm work of the grain fields & vegetable garden, can be [[?]]