Special to the Herald Times
White River
Agency, Colorado
January 13, 1879
Sir: I beg leave to call your attention to the fact that if I should succeed, as I think I certainly shall, in getting the Indians to engage in agriculture, and by this means more and more keep them close to the agency, the fine herd of cattle, now numbering about 1,500 head, will, in the course of two years, almost wholly disappear.…