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their home and raised large crops of corn, peas, pumpkins and the like with which long before white men visited this section they carried on an extensive with the Comanches and other Prarie Tribes. And while the region of Medicine Bluff equals that of the Washita for fertility of soil - as a grazing country all admit that it far excels this valley. In my opinion this point is of great importance to the Indians for I believe the Comanches and Kiowas will become successful, prosperous stock raisers long before they will cultivate the soil to any extent. Even now the Indians who care more for their horses are herding them in the valley at the Eastern end of the Witchita Mts. In the connection, when it is remembered that the garrison of the Post to be established will be mainly cavalry, the fact should not be overlooked that when proposals were invited the time of October for contracts for hay for the company of cavalry ordered to this point (Ft. Cobb) to serve with General unclear each of these persons who examined the country with a view to putting in bids decided that hay could not be cut to any advantage in the Washita Valley