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War Department Quartermaster Generals Office Washington D.C. March 24.71

Colonel D.H. Rucker Chief Quartermaster Mil. Div. of the unclear Chicago Ills.

Colonel: You are respectfully informed that the papers relative to proposed cultivation of a part of the Fort Sill Reserve have been submitted to the Secretary of War who has approved the following recommendation of the Quartermaster General: That authority be given to contract with some person to cultivate a portion of the Fort Sill Reservation in corn; The Quartermaster Department to contract the crop at $1 per bushel. The quantity not to exceed the necessities of the Post and all labor tools and