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Communication [underline] (Nearest Telegraph and Railroad Station, [more on next page] the nearest Telegraph and Railroad station is 230 mils A Post Office is [more off page] is 60 miles south east from the Post and is called Red River [possibly more off page] east Wagon roads run from Fort Sill to these places also [possibly more off page] Wichita City on the Arkansas River. Buildings [underline] (All building how constructed for what purpose of what m [off page] There are three double sets of barracks with laundress quarters Wash [off page] one company is in a stockade building Ten sets (double of Office [more off page] House Headquarters Office buildings Quartermasters Forage and Ordn [off page] built of logs on Stone foundation. The stonework of Hospital [more off page] 30 + 200 feet completed Each with cellar 30 + 100 feet. Shop Stone [more off page] of stone sheds inside for shelters Bakery of stone completed buildings, completed is good Supplies [underline] Quartermasters and Subsistence from what Depot furni [more off page] Kept on hand Quartermaster and subsistance from Ft Leavenworth Ks & [more off page] via Railroad to the Arkansas river at a point 6 miles west of Ft Gibson, C, [more off page] from medicine Bluff Creek Wood furnished by contract cut in th [more off page] months subsistence stores usually kept on hand although a years supp [more off page] Indians [underline] (What tribe or tribes at the Post or in the vicinity with their [more off page] The Kiowas Comanches Apaches and affiliated bands are in the vicinity of [more off page] affiliated bands 1216 In addition these there the band of Quahada [more off page] or rations but remain on the Headwaters of the Brazos. They are estimated at 1000 in [more off page] are occasionally hostile and are at such times joined by a portion of the [more off page]

Fort Sill I. T. Feb. 15, 1872