all of the $1,100,000, only suflicient to carry on our improve Tuis money we ask for we request only as a loan we want it replaced. We mets aud when our treaty is ratified, want to bny cattle, horscs, plonghs, and wagons; and tis inoney can be replaced when our lands are sold. We hope you will get this money: we want good farms and good louscs. Many have already put on white man's clothes, and more of ns will when our treaty is ratified

Father, we do not want to make you tircd of talk, but hope you will make a strong paper, and urgent request of our Great Father in respect to our wishes."

In 1860 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs writes: " The Winnebagoes continue steadily on the mareh of improrement. The progress of the Winnebagoes in agrienltural growths is particularly marked with snccess. There have been raised single farm. to each by individuals as sixty acres of wheat on a giring high The agent's efforts bave been directed to as Wigwams are be Indian his own allotment of land, coming as scaree as houscs were two vears ago. * ** All In dians who had horses ploughed and farmed their own lands. The Indians were promised that new and comfortable houses should be built for them. The treaty not yet being ratified, I have no funds in my hands that could be made ap plicable to this purpose. ** The greater part of the Indians have entreated me to carry out the meaning of the commission- er on his visit here, and the reasons for my not doing so do comprehensible to them. *The school is in a not scem flourishing condition."

In 1861 the commissioner writes that the allotinent of lands in severalty to the Winnebagoes has been " substantially aecomplished;" but that the sales.of the reinainiug lands have not yet been made, owing to the unsettled condition of the conntry, and therefore thc funds on which the Indians were depending for the improveinents of their farıns have not been