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farming lands stretching but on every side.  The only mill site near the town be on [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] allotment no. 537, the greater portion of which is west of the R.R. this allotment [[recording?]] Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4, & S.W. 1/4 N.E. 1/4 Sec. 21-24-7-E.  The person to whom the allotment [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is made has already over 40 acres broken & planted and a two story frame house erected.  [[strikethrough]] He means to live [[/strikethrough]]  And nearly [[strikethrough]] completed [[/strikethrough]] ready for occupation.  Two white men having capital desire to erect a mill on this site but being on an Indians land, they have been informed that they [[strikethrough]] Dept. [[/strikethrough]] will not be permitted [[strikethrough]] this erection [[/strikethrough]] to do so.  [[strikethrough]] I have been informed that the Dept. are [[/strikethrough]]  The [[strikethrough]] manifest [[/strikethrough]] interest both of Indians & white people, demand that the old-time isolation of the Reservation should be manifest.  [[strikethrough]] Here the [[/strikethrough]]  In this locality, the Indian & the white people are [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] mixed up being often neighbors on entry side, and [[strikethrough]] thereto [[/strikethrough]] shut the entire community out of the advantage