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Cheyennes and Arapahoes are gathered there; then at our leisure they can be conducted to and established on their appropriate Reservations as defined in the Medicine Lodge Treaty."

   All these things have led General Hazen (without going down to the Bluff with me as I tried to have him) to conclude that this is the place, and he had better settle here as well as the troops.   At his request the Arbuckle saw mill has been packed up and held in readiness to come here, he expects to start it as soon as he reaches that post, have it put up in some "fine maple walnut and cedar lumber" described by the Shirleys as on the head of Sugar Creek, ten miles East, beyond the burnt Shanklin Agency -and go to work building here for the winter at least.
   You well know what that will lead to.  It is jut the way the post happened to be built here before, the troops camped here in the Fall, and gradually, thro' the winter so much work was done that it was concluded best not to move in the spring - altho' it has never been intended to locate permanently here.  In this way posts have often been disadvantageously located.  It will be a pity to have this occur again, expecially after so much pains was taken by you to intelligently ascertain and report upon the best locality for a new post.
    General Hazen does not think General Sheridan has changed his mind, but seems to construe Gen'l. Sherman's letter as fixing him here, with the Indians.