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The amount paid the station keeper by the stage company for feeding and housing the horses is about forty dollars per month. A Mr Caldwell has kept this station on Lapwai creek for about seventeen years. He has one field of seventy acres fenced where I saw him cutting the wheat for grain hay last week, the yield promising to be over one hundred tons. He has another enclosure of about fifteen acres, which is cultivated as a garden and orchard. These two fields occupy all the available land along Lapwai creek for a mile and a quarter, and control an extensive cattle range toward the mountain. The grass in the immediate vicinity is badly eaten out, as large herds of sheep were pastured there some years since, and the ground has been constantly occupied by the station keeper's cattle. Last year I saw the Caldwell cattle pasturing in the mountains and beyond on the prairie, and in the fall and winter they were feeding down the creek valley to within sight of the Agency. I am informed that this year his cattle have been sold to a man having rights on the reservation, but as the buyer is a man without