Part first  1st page How is it about the store that is kept here. how do you get your things. do you buy your things do you work for your things for the Government. does the Agent ever pay you money for your work. I want to know all about it. that is what I came for. the Great Father sent me to here to see and talk with you and to know your mind. If you have anything in your mind dont hide it but speak it right out. you must not be afraid of any one in the house. the Indians said, yes we have to buy from the  Agent and work for the Agent before we can get these things. when we sell our horses or cattle we get our money and mr Wilbur very willingly lets us have anything we have want to have. Mr Pollock said, that is just what  I thought. that is what I want to know. the great father sends all these things to you for nothing. not for money. but to  give it to you. It is not annuities belonging to the old treaty that that has run out. (but the treaty is not run out he says again.) the treaty is still the same. but the annuities run out in June Last. these things that are here are to be paid out to them that work on their own farms and are trying to do something. and the Agent will give you things enough to the value of your work.  
        now about the cattle he spoke to Joe Stwire after saying that he thought there were more cattle out on the range than the papers showed. he said he thought that  if the cattle were rounded up at the Government hay  amp; stock ranch that he would go down there and see them and count them. and the cattle being gathered  if they numbered more than the papers showed he would give each man being engaged in the general rounding up. a cow  amp; calf. about 75 men being out called up to get ready to volunteer out to gather the cattle the snow was about then 6 or 8 inches in depth. next morning all hands were out to go to hunt up the cattle. (now he told them that they were not to be paid but to go and gather these just the same as they gathered their own cattle. The I.D. Cattle are not cattle belonging to the great father.  neither to Mr Wilbur but to you Indians. the cattle is yours. and if you gather them and bring them up to the stock ranch in three days I will be down there to to count them. and if I find that there are more cattle on the range than theres is showed in the papers I will give you a cow  amp; calf apiece. not pay you for work but just give it to you.  
        it is now too cold and if it was not  so cold I would divide up the cattle and give each Indian a portion or number for them to take care of and raise. they are not here for the Indian agent to take care of raise and Increase year after year. until the reservation is full. but the great fathers mind is that the Indian is to have these or to have cattle and to take care of them and own them. the Agent is not to have any cattle here of the I.D. if beef is wanted here for any purpose or purposes the Agent is to buy cattle of you Indians. the Government does not want any Land of its own to raise anything for its y use raising wheat  amp; oats. but  what ever is here enclosed at the post is sufficient for gardens and such things If the Agent wants any wheat he will buy it of you. if he wants beef he will buy it of you. I may come back next spring and if I come back I will distribute the cattle among you. and  there will not be any more cattle left for the Government to take care of here on the reservation.  
        the great father does not intend to keep any cattle here on the Agency to use and sell the beef to you Indians. the great father sends money to the Agent to pay for work. all the work that is done for the Government is to be  paid in money. not in goods. the Agent has no right to keep a store here on the reservation but and Indian or you can have the great father send you a good man to keep a store here and trade with the Indians.   I believe this is as near correct as I can remember about what Mr. Pollock as to what he said. he spoke a great deal more but I can not recall at present. but if it is  necessary I will try and bring to my memory all I can.   Yours respectfully   Mr. Franklin P. Olney.