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confidence of an Superintendent & to be a worthy man. Here is what he says of the need at Stevenson among the Colored people.

"I regret exceedingly that you are unable, at present, to make an appropriation for rations for the colored people of Stevenson. for you can have but a faint idea of the suffering here. Stevenson, as you are aware is but a R.R. Station situated in a basin among rocks & surrounded by [[strikethrough]] rock [[/strikethrough]] mountains, with but few facilities for making a comfortable livelihood, 

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except for those fortunately have employment with R.R. There is quite a number of aged people, widows, and orphans among the colored people out of employment & often unable to work, who are barely able to keep mind & body together & if they get no assistance they must starve. Since I have been here I have spent the last dollar of my monthly salary [[strikethrough]] of my monthly salary [[/strikethrough]] for their necessities & then they suffer. Besides these, these is another class here, who went out into the

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