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ranted. The government, in fact, has done little 

 or nothing toward improvement of late years 

 and has expended only enough in the way of re- 

 pairs upon the old barracks and buildings to 

 keep them in habitable condition, doubtless an- 

 ticipating the abandonment of the post at a not 

 far distant day. There is a general feeling, 

 however, among soldiers stationed here and 

 among civilians living in and near the reserva- 

 tion that were the restraint of troops withdrawn 

 the Indians would become restless and perhaps 

 commit depredations upon neighboring ranches. 



The White Mountain Reservation is divided 

 into two agencies, the White River Agency in 

 the north, and the San Carlos in the south, and 

 embraces a territory ninety-five miles from its 

 northern to its southern boundary, and seventy 

 miles from its eastern to its western. The San 

 Carlos Agency in the south has a population of 

 approximately three thousand, while the White 

 River Agency, according to the 1910 census, has 

 twenty-eight hundred. 



It is interesting to note in this connection that 

 the previous census showed a population of only 

 2,425 Indians in the White River Agency. The 

 latest census therefore discloses an increase, since 

 the previous census, of 2J$. This refers to In- 

 dians alone. Thus, while our Indians in general 



