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Show 7- Eduont 1 on-Indus tries 708DB-13 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR y ' , > ' , J . UNITKD 0TATS8 INDIAN 6ERVICE , V / Ho housing j 3$ conditions of Indians. Uintah ft Ouray Indian Agent-.7. // • ,r-. : / Fort Duo ho ono , Utah, • I *'• July 81, 1913. ^Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. Sir: . 3 Offioe letter of July 11, 1913, regarding A •housing conditions of Indians on this reservation h$a 00 . ... ' Jf. • 3s" A- • •> .•'/*• vbeon reoeivod. .7 $. The statement that Suporvisor Davis found' fmany crude houses conetnioted several years ago of Onw/it, YIOTB whioh the Indians havo deserted on aooount of not being any improvement over thoir primitive methods of living is literally true. Tho reason for tho desertion of those houses, is, however, only half ntatofl. It io' true that tho houses wore barely habitable at bewt,\but it is also true that Indians usually ooouplou thon Until n death ooourrod, v/hon thoy movoti immodlatoly. In ft fow oaooo thoy bttViod tho dead undor 0\» noaf the honno |.nd 'vacated tlio promises thereafter. In oho oaso tho jgalot- "ff too after cuch an oxporionco Is living in a littloTlog honoo built of polos on tho somo allotmont at a distance of somothing liko a quarter; of a mile from tho government houDO whioh had boon built for him. |
