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[[strikethrough]] they declare [[/strikethrough]] is regarded as unjust.  [[strikethrough]] They have counted up the money [[/strikethrough]]  The crops, ponies, & moneys [[strikethrough]] they have paid out [[/strikethrough]] expended individually for work, [[strikethrough]] they needed done [[/strikethrough]] to [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]] the men have counted up & which the are counted up, and the men declare that to be unjust & detrimental to prosperity.

Employees are paid by the Tribe to do.  In the busy season for farms men come to the Agency & camp for days to wait their chance at the blacksmiths.  [[insert]] 3 or 4 days [[/insert]]  [[strikethrough]] After these [[/strikethrough]]  It is owing to the repetition of [[strikethrough]] several [[/strikethrough]] such expens[[?ive]] [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] the people have come to [[strikethrough]] see [[/strikethrough]] realized that time has a greater value [[strikethrough]] greater [[/strikethrough]] than the money he would have had to pay a white blacksmith in one of the border towns.  [[strikethrough]] And [[/strikethrough]] Every year fewer & fewer make the attempt to use the shops.  It is too costly for the worker on his farm to lose a day going 10, 15 miles to the Agency & then 2 or 3 days waiting his chance.  The fact is that no one shop with but a single man to work [[strikethrough]] begin to  [[/strikethrough]] do the [[strikethrough]] work [[/strikethrough]] what is needed by of 255 families, the trade is too large.  This [[strikethrough]] fact [[/strikethrough]] is clear to the [[strikethrough]] better [[/strikethrough]] thinking part of the [[strikethrough]] Indians [[/strikethrough]] tribe,