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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXlX year. Corn, the staple commodity of the conntry, was shown in many varieties of excellent quality. Sweet potatoes and yams rere verr fine, and there was a handsome display of apples. PIXA A m NDIARIOOPA AND PAPAGO INDIUS. The Indians comprising these tribes in the Territory of Arizona nnm-ber in the aggregate over ten thousand. They are a, rorthr, iudnstri-ous class of Indians, and self-supporting. The government is at no expense in proriding them vith rations; they have always been friendly to the whites, and seldom guilty of committing depredations ; and, un-like most of the tribes around them, they have farms, and live by culti-vating the soil. They are under the necessity of irrigating their lands in order to make them productive, and by their thrift and industry they have achieved, considering their means, wonderfiul results. The Pimas and Maricopas have been dependent upon the Gila River for water to irrigate their farms, and for the past year or more there has been a great scarcity of water, owing to the dronths that have prevailed in that sec-tion of the country, and the further facts that mines have been opened upon the Upper Gila, and that for several miles above their reservation numbers of Americans and Mexicans have made settlements within the past few Fears, andnsed the water qf thisriver, or, rather, creek, in their mining operations and to irrigate their lands, thus almost wholly ctutting off the s~upplyf rom the Indian farms. The Indians were therefore driven to the necessit~o f seeking other lands to cultivate, or to obtain employment elsemhere to sax-e themselves and their families from starvation. Large n~unberso f them were com-pelled to cultivate lands on Salt River and in otherportions of the Terri-tory. Thiscausedconsiderable excitement on the part of citizens, and the Territorial legislature memorialized Congress at its last session, request-ing that measures be adopted to compel these Indians to remove to their reservation and remain there. It was therefore deemed advisable to have a thorough investigation made of their condition and necessi-ties, with a view to the adoption of some permanent memnres of relief. Inspector Watkins was instructed early in March last to make the required examination and such recommendations as to their condit,ion a8 in his opinion might be advisable. He reported that, to comply with the demands of the citizens and the Territorial legislature, and insist upon a, strict enforcement of the policy of the government by confining these Indians to their reservations, would, under existing circumstances, be' an act of inhi~manityu, nless they were fimished regular11 with rations, which would be rery expensive and poor economy; besides, the office had no means at its disposal with which to pnrchase such supplies. Until within the last two years these Indians ha\-e been averse to going to the Indian Territory; but the inspector and the agent both report that they are anxious to better their condition, and will now readily consent to the change. The agent, in April last, held a conncil |