The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.44-45

This is what we want and the committee on conference of the two Houses has consented to the amendment.  When the bill shall have passed I will insist upon someone being appointed at once to make these negotiations so that at the next session the bill can be passed to carry out the same."  Benton River Press, November 24, 1886, article, SOME OF OUR WANTS.  "Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long." The people of northern Montana Congress is about to resume business at the old stand and Delegate Toole is already at the national capital looking after the requirements of his territory and constituents, it is the proper time to make known our legislative wants.  The first and most urgent of these is the opening of the great northern Indian reservation, and with the accomplishment of this many other blessings will follow.  We have learned that Major Maginnis goes to Washington again this winter to assist in the good work, and as most important issues and enterprises are involved we are confident success will attend the efforts of the friends of this measure.  Millions of dollars have been expended by the Manitoba Railroad Company in constructing a railroad to both the eastern and western extremity of this reservation, which, unless the reservation is reduced, or a right of way through it secured, is an absolute waste of capital; is equivalent to money thrown away.  With such mammoth interests at stake, involving even the construction of a trans-continental line of railway, upon which millions of money have already been expended, it seems that there ought to be no doubt about the accomplishment of this object, in which Benton and northern Montana is so much interested.  If we depended solely upon a just cause, as in the past, though "thrice armed" thereby, the prospect would not be so pleasing, but backed by the power and the influence of the Manitoba Railroad and so great an organizer and successful worker as J.J. Hill, together with the heartiest co-operation of Delegate Toole- the opening of the reservation this winter is hardly anything less than a certainty.  Just how it is to be accomplished we cannot state, but we have unbounded confidence that the measure, in some way, will be brought to a successful issue this session of Congress, and before many weeks pass by.  That Delegate Toole will devote his best efforts to accomplish this purpose is an assurance, and there is nothing else he could do that would be one-hundredth part as important to the territory, and particularly this potion of it.  With the reservation opened, a new land district, with Benton as the headquarters, would be an absolute necessity, and the fact should not be overlooked by our delegate.  This being the headquarters of a customs district."  
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.44-45