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6 farming and stock raising - and rapidly becoming self-supporting. They number about 4500. As the result of keeping the Indians quiet, the country has developed more in the last eighteen months than in all the intervening years - since the Gadsden purchase. After Agent Clum had started the Indians from Chiricahua Agency, and was well on the road toward San Carlos, a portion of the Agency buildings were burned - set on fire, either accidentally or purposely - (which is not known) by some white men who were camping then.

 I am aware, that at this time, certain military officers - who interfered to make the movement a failure - circulated the report that the buildings were burned by Agent Clums direction. But I hear