White River Agency, Colorado
June 30, 1879
Sir: The mail is now coming here three times a week, and the contractor wishes to get his horses shod at our shop. There is no other shop nearer than seventy-five miles, if so near, and, as we have a good smith and can do the work, I ask your authority to do the shoeing at unusual rates, the money received, I judge, coming under the head of…