to blaze the line and place temporary posts, than it 
would for me to have marked a line that would remain 
for two years, as suggested in my Instructions. 
POST TIMBER 
The timbered region furnishes an abundance of 
fine posts, and there is no place where posts would have 
to be hauled more than a mile and a half. 
Post Timber and Trees to Which Fence May be Attached 
ROADS 
With the exception of three miles of the Hot Springs 
and Wind Cave road, the road to Custer is the most 
travelled, and the Pringle road next. 
Most of the roads shown on the map can be fenced 
out entirely. 
FENCING ROADS 
To protect travellers, it will be necessary to erect 
along the roads to Hot Springs, to Custer and to Pringle 
(nine miles in all) a barbed wire stock fence, and to build 
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