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of having a mill in that region [[strikethrough]] will tend to produce an [[/strikethrough]] because the site is owned by an Indian, [[strikethrough]] in [[?severally]] [[/strikethrough]] will tend to create a state of feeling not [[?condiction]] to the future welfare of the Indians.  

The land owned by the right is not fitted for farming & will be useful only for pasture.  [[strikethrough]] unless applied in there to [[/strikethrough]]  And surely it is questionable policy to force profitable land to lie idle.  I am well aware of the difficulties that hedge about the Dept. [[strikethrough]] in the way [[/strikethrough]] in the shape of antiquated land precidents founded upon past conditions & the proper conservatism [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] must [[strikethrough]] guide [[/strikethrough]] attend each governmental action but surely a plain statement of facts setting forth the changes [[strikethrough]] not only of 50 but of 5 years ago [[/strikethrough]] that has taken place in the different localities & now [[affording?]] the interests of White men and Indian, will help the Department to call upon an enlightened public to endorse & sustain its acts & of [[?]] in [[?inciting]] the requirements of an the [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] of the [[?]]

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