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mountains are beautiful valleys, with living springs of pure sweet water which form deep pools and cascades, and these are the headwaters of Cache Creek and its tributaries. This stream too, is skirted with enough timber for all practical purposes and the land adjoining is unsurpassed in fertility. Here long ago lived the Witchita Indians who cultivated the soil, and raised large crops of corn and vegetables in which long unclear white men visited this section they carried an an extensive trade with the Comanches and other Indians. The grazing excels? on account of the great variety of grasses, anything I have ever seen. + In my opinion this particular is of great importance to the Indians, for I believe the Comanches and Kionays? will become successful stock raisers long before they will cultivate the soil to any great extent. This has been the case with the semicivilized tribes farther east. Here this spring the corn, melons unclear were planted almost entirely by white men, and grew without further cultivation, but within three days after the arrival of the wild Indians from the Plains, (there being no fences) the whole crop was destroyed- eaten up by the Indians and their panies?- Those who write about the succesful cultivation of farms and gardens by Indians in this vicinity, are certainly ignorant of, or misrepresent,