The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.58-59

This building of the railroad will bring to the Blackfeet reservation several thousand horses employed by the contractors in their work, and these horses will eat up a great deal of the Indian’s grass. This grass the Indians need this year more than ever before. Besides their horses, of which they have a good many, and the agency beef herd, the Indians have had issued to them within the last year about a thousand heifers. They are extremely proud of these animals, and the men to whom they were issued are getting hay and building stables to keep them through the winter. If the grass on the reservation is to be eaten off by the livestock brought on by the railroad contractors, it may make it pretty “hard sledding” for some of the Indians to get their herds through the winter.

In view of all these circumstances it seems only fair that the Indians should have good pay for their land under the direction of the Secretary. The whole matter, therefore, rests in the hands of Mr. Noble, and his selection of persons to appraise the value of the lands taken and of the damages done will determine the question whether these Indians are to receive any adequate compensation for their lands. I have traveled all over the Blackfeet reserve, and I know that the land on Willow Creek is about the best on the reservation, where good land is extremely scarce. A fair price for this land would be six dollars an acre, and the contractors should pay a grazing fee for each horse brought on the reservation of not less than fifty cents or a dollar to pay for the grass that he will eat. This is little enough when we consider the damage that is sure to be done to the grazing by the horde of men and herd of animals that will invade the reservation.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.58-59