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repair and rebuild their houses. This is much needed. The task I propose could not be done under the Agency system. These people on the eve of Citizenship need to learn ^[[self]] reliance and business and the Agency system opposes both.  I speak in [[?]] and with knowledge of Affairs here, and of the limitations of government work.  It is to the Board that these people must look for help that shall tide them over this transition period. 

Permit me suggest two other stations beside those four missions making 6 in all. The largest and best tract of agricultural land some 15,000 ^[[acres]] lies in the S.W. corner of the Res. I hope to induce a survey to go stake that land.  They should have a Mission station. At South Fork there will be a full allotment & those people would like a station. Both these missions could be very helpful and well treated.
 
There is one point I would like to state clearly.  This reservation is not agricultural but grazing.  It has been officially stated that there are [[35000?]] acres of agricultural land. I doubt that there are 75,000 acres all told. Lest white men and Indian would starve at farming, except on the S.W. corner, all must depend on stock raising. I have traveled carefully over the Res. and also the length and breadth of Camas Prairie to see what white men could do. I talked with the most thrifty. All speak of it as grazing land.  However interested parties might deny the present hard facts.

Let me hear soon as to how you would place your station where there is but little farm land to secure.

Respectfully 
[[signature]] A. C. Fletcher [[/signature]]
Spl Ind. Agt.