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Fort Mojave Ariz. November The Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs Washington D.C. Sir:- In your letter November 5th to which I have the honor to reply, you desired me to give you a “description of the land of available for farm and garden” and what my plans for utilizing it during the coming spring. A half mile below the school buildings there is a great bend consisting of about 1200 acres, and composed of the richest kind of allu-vial soil deposited there years ago when it form-er the bed of the Colorado River in later when it was the bed of a lake it has since grown up and is now covered with mosquitoes and poplars. This soil is extremely fertile and has produced
