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per month, instead of sixty ($60 00/100), as last year. I have seen that his expenses consume a large part of his wages, leaving him very little pay for his services. I would not ask this increase, did I not think it just and demanded by the high price of living in that remote region, where mining prices control the market, and every article of food costs three or four times as much as the same thing in Washington D.C.

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