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« UHTER FROM TRE SAC L FOX*- ‘ • AMRCY.IKS•1.hete.lie»w.»gli--»» • .1stOfat8,erofJg«15.A FitaxuUy Xpiatl* froc a Quaker A*ent ■—|lfittiira' In a friendly Way at the ' 'MjgimcT The Indiana Prepuinc to K«-mova to tbalr Hew Homea.Sac A Fox Agency, )10th Mo., 1869Udon Kc|iablicau Daily Journal: ‘•': Matters seem to be progressing pretty well among the Sac Fox Indiana. Government has orderod the agent to make out and send up to the Department a statement of the requisite amount of funds for the removal of the Sac Fox tribeto their new reservation south of the Arkansas river. It is situated between the North and Red forks of the Canadian river, seventeen by forty miles, if I mistake not, and is said to be a fine body of land, in a good country, which I understand Government gives them lor their Improvements on their lands here. The Indians arc anxious to go soon, or: at least four of the chiefs andtheir bands. One chief, with his band, has decliued to go; but perhaps when the time for starting draws near they will close in with the rest. It will take some little time to make the necessary preparations for the journey, which I cannot enter into fully til! I get instructstious from the department. It is very likely 1 shall want to purchase fifteen or twenty yoke of good work cattle aud half that many good wagons, and some teams besides, to haul, the balauce over and above what the Indians ean pack on their ponies.I have bad all the chiefs together since writiug the above, and many of their bauds with them, talking over the matter of their removal. After notifying them to get ready, they seemed well pleased with the prospect.The health Is much bettey than it was a few weeks hack,among whites and Indians. The greater part of the sickuess has been ague.I havo Just been out finishing up the appraisement of those Indian bouses on the Indian lands which Gove.rumout receives of the Indians in lieu of their new reservation, aud I find many of them very much torn to pieces and abused. Tbo timber has been much destroyed.' This Is certainly a flno country, well watered, and plenty of good building atone, but rather scarce of timber, and has a rich soil. Tlio squatter* are frequently selling tlioir claims. Thero aro some us fine, large, extensive bottom* a* are common In most of couutriea. The Morals de* Cygnet passoa Just by (heHan k Fox agency, and Balt crookand One Hundred and Ten nut Into It within a few miles. There uromany thousands of acre* of grits*, tlmt would make one and u hall tuns of hay to the aero. It 1* suld thatthe whole reserve Is covered withelnlms, that Is the diminished reserve, Thero aro large bodies of land lu this county, that aro Inter* sporsed with small streams, which have considerable timber on Hu m. There are being put up long string* of stone fence in this county. Thu stone,la of easy aeeoia, being on the highest lands. Your friend,Thomas Mim.ru.LETTER FREE JOENMffl WH1NTI.Aft*.
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Lawrence Western Home Journal
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Thu, Oct 28, 1869
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