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Show I 10 REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONEB OF INDIAR AFFAIBS. the increasing travel of whites through the reservation, its location being npon the most direct road from southern Oregon to the gold fielda of Idaho and Montana. I t woitld he a subject of mnch regret to he compelled to remove a people who now promise 80 well from a reservation to which they have become attached, and which they have, with their own industry, put under cultivation. In the course of the last summer's hostilities against the Snake Indians, the Cayuses exhibited their friendship for the whites by furnishing a party of active and efficient scouts, who returned to their reservation proud of having served their "great white father." Agent Logan, of the Warm Springs reservation, having nuder his charge the Indiaus knuwn as ibe " Confederated bands of Middle Oregon," reports that eon-siderahle excitement hss existed during the spring and summer, prisingfrom the attacks of hands of the Snake Indians, who carried off much stock from the reservation. The confederated hands showed no reluctance to take np the hatchet with the white tmops sent out against the Snakes, and at one time raised a force of seventy warriors and seut them to join Captain Drew, in command of the United States forces. All, however, were sent back except a few, who did good service as scouts. The confederated bands number one thousand and sixty-six souls. Although they have suffered considerably by the raids of the hostile Indiaus, and their crops were much injured by grasshoppers and frost, et they are represented to be in reasonable comfort. They have two thousang horses and one hundred and sixty head of cattle, have three hundred and fifty acres of land under cultivation, exhibit evidence of improvement in the arts of agricul-ture, have quite a number of good frame-houses, and will have more whenever thev can obtain lumber. An act was oassed at the last session of Con-eress.. providing for carrying into effect tl~c ric,rmmendntion made in my last annual repolt for cffcetincan xrrnnccrnrnt with these IndinndI~vw llieh they slrould, upon the payment of a moderate sum in necessary agricul&al implements or ocher usefill articles, yield a right which they have to leave their reservation for the ptirpose of fishing. Upon the consummation of this arrangement, and the restriction of the Indians to the cultivation of the soil, their condition will he greatly improved. The reports from the Indians of the coast resemations are generally of a r/-favorable character. At the Siletz agency Agent Simpsou reports a steady improvement, the people remaining quietly upon their reservations and at work. The farming season had been rather unfavorable, hut the cmps were looking well. Some 1,200 acres had been planted, and many valuable improvements made by the Indians, who have over one hundred good log dwellings. A school had been in operation, in which fifteen boys had learned to read, hut the teacher had resigned on account of the insufficiency of his salary. The running of the mills had been much interfered with by low water. The Grande ltonde agency shows amuch improved state of affairs, theIndians who had left the reservation having been again brought together, and some six hundred acres of .laud put under cultivation by their labor. About three thou-sand six hundred acres of laud were enclosed, and the affairs of the agency, I under Agent Harvey, now have an enwnraging aspect. The saw-mill has been in good order and rendered good service, hut the grist-mill needs considerable repairs. The manual labor school was producing good results. At the Alsea sub-agency Agent Collins has underbis charge fire hundred and thirty Indians of the Syouscous, Alseas, Coose, and Umpqua tribes, and reports favorably in regard to them; they had cultivated eighty-four acres of land. All of the agents concur in recommending that allotments be made to the 'Indians of lands in severalty, in order that they may individually see and enjoy the rewards of their own labor. They also concur in the opinion that thesystem of day schools is unfitted for the permanent benefit of the Indians; and that manna1 labor schools, where the children can be kept permanently under the |