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There seems to be more ground for fearing trouble to arise into the union of the Indians of the Cheyennes & Arapahoe Reserve with those of the Comanche and Kiowa Reserve than from any other source, and I judge the true policy to be to keep the two well separated rather than by inviting and encouraging the latter to cross their Northern boundary which would practically be done by the establishment of their Agency upon the Washita.

This distance from the best depot on the railroad, say Fort Riley, to this position I recommend would be not over twenty miles farther than to the best point which can be found for a Post upon the Washita, while the Texas market, which must supply the greater portion of the grains, meal? etc. which will for several years be required for the Indians as well as the troops, will be that much nearer.