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Show /in hall: page 4. coiild have their lands released from restrictions and sell them to thrifty white settlers who would make good neighbors for the old people,-it would satisfy my notion. If the white man coming into your- country finds it a good enough wheat-growing country to make that profitable, he will have a mill of his own. Meantime, if any group of whites and Indians, or of Indians under white leadership, wished to take up the mill proposition by themselves and embark their individual money in it, I would not hesitate to recommend such a project for approval; but I am compelled in deference to my own good wishes to abstain from extending the sphere of paternalism with any group of Indians, I do not care how backward they may be. The day for that has gone by. I shall be very glad to go over again the question of the poor house, or soup kitchen, or old folk's home .-whichever we may choose to call it-in the light of your latest letter. I know your purpose is the same as mine. The great point is to find a meeting-place for our joint ideas and to put them into concrete practical form. I will go all over this subject thoroughly, and then see what I can do to help you. Sincerely yours, ""M7A< C o mm r ssl oner Captain C. G. Hall, / Acting United States Indian Agent, Whiterocks, Utah. |