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 miscellaneous receipts. And early response is respectfully asked for.
N.C. MEEKER,
Indian Agent,
White River Agency, Colo.
Hon. E.A. Hayt
Commissioner
White River Agency, Colorado
June 30, 1879
Sir: It is likely I can get some of the Indians to haul flour hither from the old agency location, and I ask your authority to pay them, say, 20 cents a sack. They have got their horses so as to work decently well; harness has been issued, and it would be a good plan to have them engage in such work. I have thought that after a while they might do some freighting from the railroad. Our teams are busy all the time, haying having commenced, and summer plowing is about to, so that Indian healing would help both us and themselves.
N.C. MEEKER,
Indian Agent,
White River Agency, Colo.
Hon. E.A. Hayt
Commissioner
Department of the Interior,
Office of Indian
Affairs,
Washington
July 2, 1879
Sir: The appointment and resignation of the following employees at the White River Agency, Colorado, recommended in your communication of May 24, and June 16, 1879, are hereby approved.
Appointed.
Arthur L. Thompson, laborer, May 10, 1879, at $729 per annum.
Frank C. Dresser, laborer, May 10, 1879, at $729 per annum.
Fred E. Shepherd, laborer, May 10, 1879, at $729 per annum.
Shadrick Price, farmer, May 10, 1879, at $729 per annum.
Wilmer E. Eskridge, laborer, June 7, [1879], at $729 per annum.
Resigned.
Edgar E. Clark, farmer, April 30, 1879.
James S. Fullerton, laborer, May 7, 1879.
Your report of irregular Indian laborers for the month of April last, involving an expenditure of $112.75 is also approved.
Respectfully,
E.A. Hayt
Commissioner
N.C. MEEKER, Esq.
Indian Agent,
White River Agency, Colo.