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16 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