Washington D.C. Feb. 8th 1881 Hon Sect. of the Interior  Sir,   I have the honor to  inform you that I have been permitted to look  through Inspector Col. Wm J. Pollock   s Report of the Yakama Agency, and find in his going back for ten years myself unable here to fully Explain all the irregularities he Calls attention to in my Accounts. That there are irregularities I do not  question, but Claim there is Some palliation at least for these irregularities as there have been Some if the Remoteness of the Agency from this  point is Considered   the Embarrassed Conditions  of our Mail facilities   the fact that only about  5 Months in the year the Road from the Agency  to the Columbia River is free from Snow so as to  get in Supplies   that during these years there have  been Wars Indian wars with Nez Percies Bannocks  amp; Piutes that threw the Settlements around Said Agency  into the wildest Confusion and Made it Necessary  for the Agent to travel through the length and breadth  of the land to keep the whites and the Indians from  a Collesion   that orders were Recd not to allow an Indian to leave the Reservation without first getting permission from the Hon Commissioner of Indian Affairs   That Supplies purchased late in the fall and  Shiped to us from San Francisco Cal, And by Treaty  were to be delivered at the Agency free of Expense  Came to the Dalles 65 miles from the Agency with freight Bills to be paid before the goods were  delivered with no Money on hand properly  applicable to pay freight to the transportation Ca. and to hire and pay teamsters for getting in   
        Supplies   the Winter on hand and the Supplies must be had immediately  the bringing to the Agency on the 2d  of Feb. 1879 Five hundred and forty three prisoners Bannocks and Piutes, in the winter, in the most destitute Condition that could possibly be endured by them, without provision Made for their Subsistance and without any official Notice of their being  Sent to the Agency until the Night they Camped  upon Said Agency,   the fact that  7,236.75 Dollars  due from Supt Waterman was Not Paid   that  at the Close of the fiscal year 1879 I returned  to the U.S. Treasury  8,336.   That the Bannocks  amp; Piutes in their  Subsistancce have been Supported by the Agecy above all appropriations made for them to the Amount  of at least  14,000 Dollars    amp; that the work of the Agency  has been Carried on with Commendable prosperity,  that the Cattle of the Agency have increased  from 100 to 2304 Department and the Indian Cattle in the same ratio.  That the Issues to Indians of Cattle Since 1871 are  That the Expenditures  in the Killed have been  That the Natural increase has been   That the agency has always Kept free from debt    amp; that a portion    the greater portion of the time I have been Agent  Since 1864 I have not had a Clerk   that I have  during Said time built a Steam Saw Mill with  a Plainer Shingle Machine  amp; Logturner, Estimated  to be worth from ten to fifteen thousand Dollars  without any additional appropriation from  the Government, that there has been peace with  our Indians during all the years I have been among them   that in no instance have we had occasion to Call for Military assistance   that  we have buit two Church in Said  time, put an additional Story on the Boarding house at an Expense of  1,000 Dollars  amp; built a house at the Station to Supply in part houses burned last Summer, house worth  1,000. Repaired  Mill Dam and Rebuilt Flume at Saw and Grist Mill  at an Expense of at least  1,500.