White River Agency, Colorado
July 7, 1879
Sir: In reply to yours June 27 (A., Colorado, M., 1282), in which you say my expense account of E.E. Clark, in getting a blacksmith, October, 1878, is disallowed because no exigency is shown, and because it is believed a smith could have been obtained by correspondence, I have to say:
First, the exigency arose from the fact that we were running two plows in sod-ground, and that…