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Letter requesting permission to obtain an aerial survey of the Fort Apache Reservation. Response is attached.

Letter requesting funds to improve and repair the irrigation facilities at Fort Apache.

Report with information about the Fort Apache area, location, surface features, the forest, and a table about the mill production and expenses.

Letter stating timber harvesting on Fort Apache should be conducted conservatively to protect the forest, watershed, and the run-off.

Letter informing the reader that he may no longer give lumber away to individual Apache people, it must be paid for out of the funds collected from the lumber buyers.

Letter rejecting a request from two non-natives to prospect/mine certain areas on the White Mountain reserve.

Letter explaining that the President is prohibited by law from annexing Indian reserves and relocating them to Indian Territory.

Some citizens of Arizona and New Mexico believe abolishing the reserves/relocating Indigenous peoples is the only way to secure peace in the territories, even though the Indigenous peoples are peaceful and nonviolent (only Geronimo's band are wanted in the region). Furthermore, the President is prohibited by law from abolishing the reserves.

Letter requesting a certain section of Indian reserve be annexed because according to interviews no Indigenous person is currently using it.

Letter requesting the southern region of the San Carlos reservation which contains coal be annexed to Arizona so it may be procured due to the growing demand of fuel.

Abstracts of phone calls about the establishment and disestablishment of various Native and military reservations between the Arizona Superintendent of Indian Affairs and other individuals from 1865 to 1877indiviudals from 1865 to 1877.

A bill proposing to have the US government compensated the Indigenous peoples for have their land alienated because McMillen was accidently established on a reserve.

Letter with the daily operations taken by a military troop and Indigenous peoples to remove cattle unlawfully on the reservation.

Report on the water supply and water appropriations on Salt River and its tributaries above the Mouth of the Verde River. Map included.

Report on forest reservoirs for Sierra Nacha Mountains, such as timber quality, region's boundaries, information about settlers, and geological survey report.