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country is given, it is done through self interest to sell land too poor and barren to sustain more than an average crop of grasshoppers. There are not settlements near the scene of operations against Victorio and your informant in this regard, as well as in many other of his statements has either drawn upon his imagination or received his intelligence second hand from some of the many gentlemen on the frontier, who are rusticating out here for their health and to escape the penitentiary at home.

    There are quite a number

residing out here, engaged in I have yet to hear one of for want of activity in they know, that since General Grierson the command of the Military January 1878, the troops of his more miles, done more hard work ships, than all the other troops ment. He has developed the opened up roads, built tow hundred telegraph line, guarded and property, kept the country free lastly defeated Victorio and forced limits of Texas.