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be in use every day, each day's driving averages between 30 and 40 miles of ground to be gone over, and the rough mountainous character of the country, & absence of roads makes the work hard for the animals. My camps must always be made near water and timber, and therefore there is frequently quite a ride from camp to the point of allotment work. I really need 4 working horses so as to use one team one day & to rest it the next. If I have 4 horses, in moving camp, one spare can be used to pack and thus avoid the necessity of hiring pack horses. It will therefore be necessary to purchase one horse, as as to give the needed number, 4 horses, for the allotment work of next year, which will be entirely in a wild uninhabited country, removed from settlements, and all sources of supply.

I would therefore ask authority to purchase a good horse at a cost not to exceed eighty ($80 00/100) dollars, and to do so this winter when a good horse can be bought cheaper than in the spring.

Respectfully
[[signature]] Alice C. Fletcher [[/signature]]
Special Ind. Agt.