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    And now I want to write to you particularly in relation to the establishment of the new post out this way.      You will remember, or can see in the record, your suggestions as to a supply route from Mt. Scott (or this place) to Junction City, embodied in your Report to Gen'l. Sheridan dated July 14, '68.    Generals Sheridan and Hazen talked the matter over, the latter was furnished with extracts from your report, regarding that route and the location of a new post, and it was decided expedient to open the road both for the supply of the post and of Indians.    Gen'l. Hazen tells me that General Sheridan the [strike] contemplates or has decided upon the establishment of two new permanent posts in this District, one somewhere in this region, to be for the present at any rate, Gen'l. Hazen's Hd. Qrs and the location for the Kiowa, Comanche & Apache Agency and the depot of their supplies, the other to be on the new road to Junction City, just South of the Kansas line, in the neighborhood of "Witchita City" at the mouth of the Little Arkansas, that to be the location for the Agency of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes and the depot of their supplies.     Such were General Sheridan's intentions when Gen'l. Hazel left him at Harker the 1st of October.     Gen'l. H. says that his post would have been re-established but for your report, on account of that, however, Gen'l. Geheridan did not intend his field orders Larned relating to the sending of troops here as establishing a post at this place, but meant to leave to the future the selection of the locality for the permanent post.