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Show DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, particularly tho Y/hito Kiver band, it would have boen hotter deferred, while with tho higher class of tho Indians it would probably be unfaia to them to defer tho period. (b) Tho spooiflo advantagef^ooruing to those Indians through the introduction of white settlers is their .creator and more rapid education in all business mattor3 and tho stimulation given to thoir affiliation with white people. The specific disadvantage oomoo from enforcing upon them tho laws of marriage and divorce at a timo whon it was impossible to get them to praotise such. ' ' Temporary strifes and ills will frequently arino between them and their whlto noighboro, and tho loss of some personal property, particularly numerous ponies loft on the range which are frequently captured and run off by white people. Thoro is also frequont depredation on Indian land3 in tho way of cutting of timber, grazing of stock, etc., that is well-nigh impossible to control.and which will disappear in the oourso of many years, during whioh the Indians must become educated to tho conditions,-paying doarly for their tuition. 4 Vory re snoot fully. CED:Y7JZ Supervisor of Farming in Charge. |