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Show Iiisnrniire Assurance. The active competition for business between rival life-insurance companies, and the zealous efforts made to establish estab-lish agencies in the remotest parts of the country, are fairly exemplified in the following correspondence : "Saint Lous, Mo., Juno 1, To the ncarr.it Justke ot' the Peace, Fort BvforJ. Dakotali Tn ' 'Itonj: J Dear Sir We take tho liberty to send you a statement of the condition and working of the Mutual Life-Insurance Company of New York, feeling assured that, bv reason of your official position, you can furnish reliable information infor-mation which may be very useful to us 'in future, and we respectfully request information upon the following points, viz : 1st. uat is the population, business prospects, iV.c, of your place ? lid. W hat insurance companies are doing business there, and by whom are they represented ? ud. Please give us the names of two of your citizens w hom you think would make reliable agents, and what, in your opinion, are the prospects fur business. Ac,, in case we should wish to establish an agency in your place. If you will furnish answers to the abovcquestions, you will place its under un-der many obligations. Very respectfully, and , Ceneral Agents N. Yr. Mutual Lile-Ins. Lile-Ins. Co." To this very reasonable request the following detailed reply was given : "Fort Buk'ORD, D.T., Aug. l!s, sy,.,i. Mosrs. fi.ii , General AjchU Mutual Lifc-Jiisuamcc Company Com-pany of Xew York-, ,S. JsOiiis, Mo.; Gents lour communication of June 1, inclosing Statement of Condition, Condi-tion, Working, c.. of the Mutual Life-insurance Life-insurance Company of Xew York, came to this place only a few diys since, and n.s theie is no Ju.-tiee of the IVace within six or eight hundred miles of Fort Btifbrd. presuming upon n.y official dignity, I undertake to 1'ur- ni-h the information you soncii. Your Gist question, as to population. c . is a dithVult one to n-iT. owins to the migratory habits of our peop:e. If we could get together the seventeen tribes of Sioux, the Crows, A--ii:i-boincs, Gros-Ventres, K c'. an e-. i nk pa-pas, .antees, and Mandans. we would probably have five ihui.-and lodges, or twenty thousand people. A few days ago we had one hundred and eighty lodges of Assiniboines. hut today to-day they are gone. To-day vre have twenty Sioux, and to-iiinrrow thoy will b" gone. Secondly 'What in-uraii, e companies compa-nies are doing business here, nnd by whom are they represented1' There is at pr,..-eiit but one ei.ii.pany doinc business bore the I'iii..n."' principal office at WashinL't.'n. 1. ('.: I". S. Grant. President : S l.uyler Col-fix. Col-fix. iee-President : and i very i fn ciently represented by Hriodicr-l general gene-ral H. A. Morrow, . . A., as-isto.l by ft corps of Mibordinatr and thiee hundred men with bn eeh-loadiiic rnn-and rnn-and bnyr.net. Me iie.il KxamineV. As-j sistant - Sur;e,.n .lame- 1-. itei.a.i. I S. A., assise.', by dr. . If. jar. , eeib. Thirdly You wish ih.- iuim .-.i I BBaMS9BflM..BH.n.BmBB.B two of our citizens who would maki reliable and efficient agents?' As -the Puk-pa-pas and Te-ton ar. the principal terror in this section. 1 eive you the names of two of their prin cipal chiefs, viz.: Tieh-tun-ka l -tun ka i,or S it ; in ix Bull) and Wee sap-pr. for B.ack Moo.-e1. They are very efficient I'ne-ths'roU' s. and if you car enlist them in the life-insurance business, busi-ness, you will have aecuiplished s great and good work, and wiil be justly entitled to the gratitude of all frontiersmen frontiers-men : for the lives of white men would then be comparatively safe. It is less than a mouth since f ur white men were killed and scalped within three miles of the fort, each being pierced by more than a dozen bullets. A ery truly vourr. ' W. II. Casey. A-s t P.M. P.S. Should yuu wish to correspond corres-pond further on this subject, I must beg you to inclose twenty five cents in each letter, to defray the expense ol getting them from Fort Stephenson, one hundred and fifty miles distant, and the nearest post-office in running order. W. H. C- P S. 2d. On the whole, I estimate that 'Sittius Bull' is the man for you." Editor's Drattxr, Harper's Monthly lor A'orew. '.(-;. |