ary of our oountry

ing throughout a more or lees vigilant military su

per vision is 11 000 miles in length presenting every

variety ol climate and temperature from tbe in

olement cold of our Canada frontier to tbe troploa

regions of Southern Texas But the occupation of

this line of frontier is a trifling difficulty in oom

parison with that protecting the double Une of In-

dian frontier extending from the Lake of the Wooda

to the banke of the Bio Grande on the eaet eide of

the Bocky Mountain and from beyond the river

Oregon on tbe British frontier to the head of the

Gulf of California on tbe Western slope of thoee

mountains Snpersddsd to

be occupied are the i

tion between tbe Val

Pscifio ocean which imperatively demand that pro-

tection wbioh only the United State troope oan

furnish These linee ara very long and are now

extremely important whilat every year randan

them more ana more eo Prom onr western fron-

tier of eettlemente to thoee of Northern Oregon the

distance ia about 1 800 milee from the same fron-

tier to the eettlemente of California via Salt Lake

is 1 800 mllee from the frontier of Arkanaa at

Fort Smith by Albnquerque or Santa Pe to Port

Tqjon le about 1 700 milee and from San Antonio

iy EI Paso to San Diego near the borden of the

rhito eettlemente ie 1 400 milee oonetitnting an

aggregate line of 8 700 miles whioh onght to be oo

oupied and whioh wa pntend in come sort to kaep

open and defend

A line of pests shonld be eetabllshed parallel with

our frontien where onght to be oonoentrated large

bodies of efficient oavalry No more favorable time

oould be selected to arrange theee poets than the

preeent when the lande are not taken up by eettlen

This donble line of defenoe would prove tbe moet

economical system of frontier ptoteotion diminish-

ing alse tha cost of transporting munitions of war

and store