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Show 154 UTAE SUPERINTENDENCY. I reserve o5cial report until I return to the city, but ask your attention to the enclosed official communioation. Truly, &c., Colonel 0. H. IRISH. THOMAS C. W. SALE. ME~DOVWA LLEYU, TAHT ERRITORY, December 15,1864. SIR: I am in receipt of information that on or about the first of the present month two white men, supposed to be emigrants on the road to California, were murdered by Indians at a place called the Muddy Branch, on the Rio Virgin. I call your attention to this, and request your iustrnc-tions as to what are the proper steps to he taken, if any, by me. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS C. W. SALE, CIerk Superintendency, Acting Special Agent. ,- SUPERINTENDOEFN INCYD IAAFNFA IRS, Great Salt Lake City, C. !IM!,ay 15, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to herewith transmit a report from Special Agent Sale as to his operations in the southern portion of this Territory, and in the adjoining Territories of Arizona and Nevada, during the past winter. It will he observed that he has made his headquarters at Meadow valley. BS the action of the last Congress, this point has been cut off from Utah and added to Nevada. I would call especial attention to the last part of his communication, referring to the establishment of an agency in that portion of the country, with jurilidiction extending over the Pai-Ute Indians ranging in southern Utah, in northwestern Arizona, and southeastern Nevada. This, in my judgment, is important. and necessary to the protection of the settle-ments and the emigration through that portion of the country ; and it being connected in its geographical position with this. Territory, the agent in southern Utah should be authorized to take charge of the tribe without re-ference to territorial lines, which the Indians do not regard. I would therefore respectfully recommend that hlr. Sale be made a disburs-ing agent, and that he be required to give bonds of, say $5,000, and that he be authorized to take charge of the Pai-Ute Indians in southern Utah, in southeastern Nevada and northeastern Arizona, with permission toeatabliah his headquarters at such point as he may deem best and most convenient, within the country inhabited by the Indians referred to. I am satisfied thatthese Pai-Utes cannot he induced to live with the Utahs, except by the use of force. This opinion is held by Governor Doty, Ex-Gov-ernor Young, and all with whom I have talked, who are familiar with the Indians and that countrv. It will he necessarv to make ~rovi s ioufo r them upon some other reservkion, located in the geighborhodd of four hundred . miles south of the Uintah valley. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 0. H. IRISH. Superintendent ~n d i a nA ffairs. Hon. WILLIAMP . DOLE, Conamisgioner of Indian Aj'airs, Washington, D. C. |