
          credit that is truly my due. Many of my copper
 mine plants were collected before he came up
 under Col [Colonel] Graham; and many others were collected
 cotemporaneously with him. His plants collected
 under Col [Colonel] Graham as well as those collected under 
 your orders are I understand in the hands of
 Dr. Gray. Many of mine were gathered before 
 Col [Colonel] Graham came into the field and all of
 them before you came yet I consider them--
 and always have--as belonging to the proceedings
 of the Boundary Commission. If you look at
 the practical operation of these matters you cannot
 help seeing the predicament I am in.
 I have not been required by Mr. Bartlett to turn
 my copper mine plants over to him nor have
 I ever had a desire to do so yet by being placed
 between you & Col [Colonel] Graham, I have been completely
 fleeced and see not how I am to get
 relief, except you and Genl. [General] Campbell are able
 to give it me. If Wright's plants collected
 under Col [Colonel] Graham could be held back or
 brought forward simultaneously with our 
 some reparation could be made and it would
 not be quite so bad. You can prevent him
 from bringing out--until the proper time--those
        