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Show 58 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. %ere and tbrr.,and from Scar to year compelled to g i ~ da p their farms ax they are srized bf whitemen. They are all anxinnp toobrdi~p~er manen1 ~ V I I Ia~nd~ ,31 '1% willitlg ro rro abaravrr the Presldeot will direct. if ther rxo onlv t h u ~ae eore land aud ttlake 3 ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ itGt as farmela The Go-si Utes speak a language much more nearly rlyllied to the Northwestern Sho-shone8 than the Utes, though the greater number of them affiliate with the Utes, and are intermarried with them. The greater part of them woold prefer to go to Uintab, bat a few, on acconnt of mar-riage- tms, desire to go with the Shoshones. It mould probably be well togive them, -this choice. The Utes of Utah nnmher 5%, the Pah-vants 134, and the Go-si Utos of Utah ?nd Nevada, 460, making B totalof 1,150 Indians, whoshopld bo oalleotedon the reaevatlon a t Uintah. ' TIIE SHALL RESERVATIONS AT SAN PETE, CORN CBEEIC, SPANISH FORK AND DEEP CREEK. Previous to the advent of whitemen in Ut&, theIndiaus wereraisiogooro, sqnaahes, and other raiins, and vegetables.. Among the tracts of land thus cultivated, there were four remar%ahle for their extent, one in a little valley &long a stream, tributary to the San Pete, now known sa Twelve-mile Creek, mother at Corn Creek, near Fillmore, s third at Sosniah Fork. on the shore of Utah Lake. and cs fourth at Dew Creek. near rho ~eracittl ine. At ihr riuta whtin Hrixhnm w.wgurornur uf tlte'I'crritr,rg anrl er-nflcio s!lperint~~~!deouft Indian Af i l ra, tlw IIKII~LIIYBI T*~ t.nc~ttraCrd1 0 rolltilltl?~ rhrir ilnltinr at t l ~ h ~~nla cesa,n d ae ro told rhnt rllr lnnci* would nur be r.&mh frortl them. But ~ommnnaBl wns'were planted near by, and the Indians engaged on the farms were put under the charge of the bishops of these towns. During the adminis-tration of subsegnent offioials, boildings ware erected at Spanish Fork and a proper agency established there by authority of Congress. For a number of year8 no definrte Ioundaries wbre given to the Indian farms, or reservations as they came %o be styled, but in order to revent white persons from diverting the water to othor lands, &%last, certain natttoral ioundaries were dekipated in such a manner as to secure the water-riqhtn. ['he nntmlwr of lndinns at the so-called ms rva t ioo~a u a lw~y svc rv w mall, and ~rlw!, tllo mntrPr was "lore rhoruuyltlg understood by the Uepartm',vtt at Waslringtoo, it was not rlrcmcd rise ru rnrourrtrrc the ludians to remain uo tbetn, but a tn!%tg wan nmde by which they agreed to mi& in the valley of the Uintah, on the easternside of' *he Wasatch ErIountainins. (Mention of this treety hea been made above.) Some time aftor the signing of this treaty b the Indians the sope~iqtendent of Indian aEairirs for Utah recommended the sale ozthe old Indian farms, and that the proceeds of snob sale should accrue to the benefit of tbe Indians. It is neossslary to a proper understanding of the matter to remember that these reservations were never eatablishd by law, or by Exe~utiveo rder, 80 th&t up to this time they had no legal statos as reservations, bnt an act of Congress approved May 5,1364, entitled "An aot to vacate and sell the prasent Indian reservations in Utah, and to settle the Indians af said Territory in Uinteh Valley," provides "' * That the Seoretrsq of the'Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and required to oaose the several Indian reservations heretofore made, or oeoupied as snch,in the Territory of Utah to be surveyed and, sold." And it still further provides that the prooeeds of the sales should be used for the benefit of the Indians. (Vide U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 13, p. 63.) Thia is the first legal recognition of said rasewations, but when the surveyor-general of Colorado Territory was instrc~etedb y the Secretary of the Interior to caude thesur-vey of said reaervxt,ions, neither the Land.Office nor the Indian Department conld de-termine where such reservations were aitoated, as no plat or record of any such resarva- :tione conld be folund. Thereupon the Secretary of the Interior issued the following inatruotions: " DEP ~ ~TMR0N8 TTE E INTERIOR, " Washington, D. C., flebrt~aryfi1,3 65. "SIR: 11. r l l t l~br rcwitl~ 1110 pa~er99 ubntirted with gonr letter of the 16th nltimo, eonr.,rning Tltnsnlu of Indian remrvnttona in Ltrb. 1 also inclmn ll,ttcr of tlle C(~)III-midrioucr of the Land-l)ffiru of th', 24th olrimo. s~ul copy of u mrrnrpondcnre with that Ollirnon the eubject, utd lba~(t.o ~I a t ei,n relation to tbe nbarldo~~rr#ela crratisbns, that in~ntrlnrtionrh e FVao 14 the supenoreudmt 01' Indian Atairs 18, rlesif~,ato,u s fnr ;rr l,r ran aerermin, I te exlunt uf the tract* oi rountly ocnnpred I,y tllc Indians and reto,onilrd :la tlwir rrrrnntiooa; xnd in PO d o ~ ~ g t lmOmt en mu,y budirvvt,~dh r include 311 the aml~l sln nda oi rbc valleys ill which 11.8 reservnr i~na~m airurrofl, together :r ))?"pel. qntnntity of ndjrerur tiu8ber-land%f, or thc ronvcnjeoru uf the fnrolinn-land+ all r., be Inid ui l it, mixll I<,r.i, :tnd i n cnch form for irrinar:con nt~d~ r r r l e n ~ ~ nTtO bo |