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tracts of their land for five or ten years.  The [[?]] arrived  Where are the Indians [[?]] to live meanwhile?  They [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] must be [[?precariously]] thrown back on the poorer lands among the bluffs, a distance from market, and [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] excluded from contact with the growing population that clusters along the Western sides of the reservation.  Then years they must live thus, men now 40 or 45, would be 50 or 55 before the term would expire and they could enter into their heritage.  They would find their lands now, [[strikethrough]] and their ambition abated.  They had not not having the [[/strikethrough]] the [[?region]] strange about them, they having [[?to]] or no share in building it up they would be 
and import [[strikethrough]] skill to [[/strikethrough]] the skill, much is [[?]] of experience [[strikethrough]] to compete [[/strikethrough]] to enable them to hold [[strikethrough]] up [[?else]] [[/strikethrough]] their own [[?]] their white neighbours. [[strikethrough]] to unprepared [[/strikethrough]] 

A (It is not proposed by me to lease farms in township 24 range 9 & 10 - where the Indians are the least advanced, & where the land is [[strikethrough]] broken [[/strikethrough]] less desirable, [[strikethrough]] then a [[/strikethrough]] & where farmers could demonstrate how poorer land can be improved by labor made remunerative.  [[strikethrough]] As I said before it is the best lands which are desired and these [[/strikethrough]]  But [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] it is proposed to lease the lands lying in T 24 range 7 & 8 & 27-25 range [[?]] where lies the best farming land the Indians possess, & the allotments therein are in the main held by the most industrious part of the community.  These lands, are now owned by Indians who [[strikethrough]] with a little help would in time [[/strikethrough]] in time, will improve their lands themselves & who with a little help would take hold at once.  

B  These lands are the choice spots on the reservation.  It was of these tracts that