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means the transaction is a paper sale. I have ^[[this year]] seen the cattle ranging over a tract more than twenty miles in extent. Mr Caldwell has leased the Craig ranch a few miles below on Lapwai creek. Mr Sam. Phinney claims to have purchased the Craig plot, which occupies two miles of the bottom on the creek.  Mr Caldwell is raising grain & hay on this tract and will easily harvest 200 tons of hay there.

In view of the facts concerning the stage line between Lewiston & Pierce city, the small number of horses used & the almost entire absence of passengers. The amount of land held by Mr Caldwell for mail station purpose, is certainly greatly in excess of the requirements of the business or the needs of "public conveyences."  The position of station keeper would have little or no value if it were simply ^[[used for]] the keeping of a mail station. The desirability of the place is that it gives a man the right to live on the reservation, where he can farm as much land as he pleases, rent free and house an unlimited number of cattle gratis, besides