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Show 144 UTAH SUPERWTERDENCY. Governor Doty negotiated a'treaty with them at Box Elder, Ut,ah, on the 80th day of July, 1863, by which the government agreed to pay them a yearly annuity of five thousand dollars ($5,000.) They have kept the treaty.. as a general thing; but, owing to their country being so much of it occupied by the whites, the game almost entirely destroyed and driven away, they suffer frequently from hunger, and I have been col~lpelled to assist them a great deal during the past winter, or else they might have felt themselves cum-pelled to commit depredations upon the stock of settlers in order to keep themselves and families from starving. I made an arrans. ement earlv in the winter with the leadinscitizens of the , northcru bxrion (rl' t l l o ~cr r i rG~t.oy employ chief Black l&d nnrl Itis band tu lrerd tl~eircattlt~,;~i,n%dy h im in fltouru~tdb eef. Thia, with relief I fitrni~hed' enabled them to i e t through the winter. But they.should be attached to an agency in Idaho, and instructed in farming. They would like a reservation on the Snake riyer, in the south-western corner of Idaho. Though t,hev are called Shoshonees. thev are an entirely separate and distinct people from those under the control of "wash-a-kee, and while they are friendly they are not disposed to associate together. TEE GOSBIPS, OR GOSEA UTES, Are a band ranging through Utah, west of Salt lake. They talk very nearly the Shosbonee lat~guage,b ut ape a separate and distinct band, under the control of chief Tabby, (the Sun,) and a number of soh-chiefs. They num-ber about eight hundred. Thev have neither horses nor cuns. Thev are exceedingly poor! and subsist al;nost entirely upon pine-nut< roots, and fish, and during the inclement season of the year are dependent upon what as-sistance we can give to keep themfrom starvation. Last winter I made an arrangement by which they assisted in supporting themselves, by inducing the settlers in that portion of the Territory to empluy them as herdsmen. Tabby and Dick Moni, chiefs, with their families, were thus employed, and bet for this arrangement, with the very limited resotlrcea at my command, they must have perished or lived by plunder. The treaty concludedat Tuilla valley on the twelfth day of October, 1863, was with tl~eaeI ndians. I t provided for an annuityof one thousand (1,000) dollars. IL is uot eooogh, as Governor Doty advised the department in his report accompanying it. It ought to be increased to five thousand dollars, (5,000,) in order give these Indians the assistance they require. As it is, they draw heavily upon the funds remitted for the general ptlrposes of the superintendency. I may say, here, that I have found the Mormolis very will in^ to co-operate as far as they could in these eEorts for the relief of the India&. There will be no,diffioulty in ind~~c inthgo larger portions of the Goship Indians to becqme herdsmen, for which employment they show much apti-tude. TEE CC&r~I-UJfR.LII(S.. R ITEBER CTGS.) This is a band controlled by chiefs Amoosh, Tetich, and To-tads, (Little ,Soldier,) with two or three sub-chiefs. They are mixed-bloods of the Utes and Shosbonees, and range in the region of Salt lake, Weber and Ogdeu valleys, in northern Utah, and number abouteight hundred. They have been accuston~ed to lounge aronnd the superintendency, and live by begging and pilfering from the settlers, and are the most troublesome and worthless of our Indians, having apparently no ambition to better their condition. The country heretafore occupied by them is now thickly settled by whites, and there being no game for them to hunt, and not being disposed to work, |