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Show 18 REPORT OF THE COMJIISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. . attention to farming, and his good o5ces will be availed of to induce a more ready compliance with the policy of the department, in the removal of all the Utahs to the Uintah Valley reservation. . San Pitches, numbering about 500, and live in the San Pitch valley and along the Sevier river. They are very poor, and live upon fish, roots, nuts, kc. Besides the above Utohs, there is a large number of Indians, estimated at 6,000, called the Pi-Edes, allied in language to the Utahs, but very poor, and obtaining a precarious living upon a barren region in the southern part of the Territory. They cultivate here and there a few patchesof grain or vegetables, but are often reduced for subsistence even to feed ou lizards, toads, and insects. The superintendent hopes to induce them to accept a better home upon the Uintah Valley reservation, as soon as the preparations at that point are suffi-ciently advanced. The Pah- Utes, who formerly constituted a considerable portion of the Indian population of Utah, have, by the late chaugein the boundary between this Ter-ritory and Nevada, been thrownfor the most part into that State, although they have bee11 visited and looked after by Special A p t Sales, sent to them by Su-perintendent Irish, at the urgent appeal of citizens, indorsed by the late gover-nor, Hon. J. 1). Doty. In Governor Doty this office has lost an abble and will-ing adviser and efficient aid in developing its policy and obtaining an influence over the Indians i while the latter, as well as the white settlers, have lost a true friend. Governor Doty returned to this office, under date of 18th of November, 1564 the treaties with the northwest Shoahonees and the Shoshonee Goships, with the amendment of the Senate ratified, and those treaties have been proilaimed; but he was not able to get the northeast Shoshonees and mixed Bannacks and Shoshonees together. Much correspondence has taken place between the superintendent and this o6ce in relation to the proper plans to be pursued in regard to prepariug the Uintah Valley reservation for a home for d l the Utahs who can he induced to remove to it, but not much bas been done until recently towards accomplishing the desired end. .Both the superintendent and Agent Einney presented plans for the expenditure of the appropriation for the p~~rpoamea de by Congress, but both, esneciallv the latter, contemplated the use uf a considerable part of the funds idexpe&ee of removd, or &thing, or subsistence. As the decision of Secretary Usher .was that no portion of the funds could be used for these purposes, and that they could only be used in preparing the res-ervation to receive the Indians, it was deemed advisable to expend the funds in such preparations no faster than there was a reasonable hope of getting the Iu-dians to avail themselves of the advantages offered to them; the theory adopted being that after a portion of the Indians had removed to the reservation their labor could he availed of to assist those who were to follow, and tbus a large expenditure for labor be saved to the goverument. I am now inclined to tbiuk that ~erhaosit would have been well to nosh these nrenarations forward more & . vigokusly: as it would seem from ~u~e r i i t endeInrits h's special report relative to the treaty referred to below, that the Indians show much more willingness to remove than was expected. Agent Einney bas gone upon the reservition, and a full report from him was expected, but has failed to arrive. The exami-nation made of the Uintah valley, which is ample in extent for allof theutahs, showed it to be abundantly fertile, well timbered and well watered, and measures have been taken to warn all white peraons away from the tract reserved. The people of Utah have been anxious to obtain possession of the several small res-ervations heretofore withheld from sale, particularly the one at Spanish Fork, none of them being at present occupied and cultivated by or for the benefit of the Indians. The superintendent represented that, as to some of these reserva-tions, the lndiaus objecked to their survey and sale till they were paid for them |