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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. the past year, and the survivors beg for peace. It was theintention and under-standing that all of the Goship tribe shall partici ate in the benefits of the treaty: At the treaty of Soda Springa, on the 14%t of October, with the mixed hands of Sboshonees and Bannocks roaming in the valley of Shoshonee river, there were one hundred and fifty men present with their families. Tindoah and the chiefs of several other bands sent word that they assented to the treaty, and desired to be considered parties to it, hut they could not remain, as it was so late in the season they were compelled to leave for their buffalo hunting-grounds. I have seen these hands on Snake river, in the month of May last, in council, found them peaceable and friendly, and explained lo them the objects for which it wss proposed to hold a treaty before the snow fell. -.Those now present were, Toso:kwauberaht, the principal chief of the Ban-nack nation, commonly known ns Grand Coquip, Tahgee, i'datigund, and other principal men. This last chief and his hand live at the Shoshonee River ferry, where he meets all the travellers to and from the mines. He has always been friendly to them; and all of these bands can render great service to the emi-grants, or do them great injury. They number about one thousand sonls, as near as I can ascertain. The whole number of Shoshonee, Goships, and Bannacks, who are part% to these treaties, may be estimated at eigbt thonsand six hund~eda nd fifty. The amount to be paid to them annually in goods, kc., is-to the Shosh-nees and Bannacks twenty thousand dollars, and to the Goships one thousad dollars, for the term of twenty years. This last sum I think ought to be increased to two thousand dollars, especially if they are to he settled as hne-bandmen or herdsmen. The importance of these treaties to the government and to its citizens can only he appreciated by those who know the value of the continehtal telegraph a d overland stage to the commercial and mercantile world, and the safety and wcurity which peace alone can give to emigrant trains, and to the travel to the gold discoveries in the north, which exceed in richness-at least in the quality of the gold-any discoveries on this continent. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JAMES DUANE DOTY, Commnibsioner. Hon. WM. P. DOLE, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. No. 66. DEPARTMENOTF THE INTERIOR, Ofice Indian Affairs, Fe6ruary 6, 1864. SIR: I herewith transmit a letter received at this office from Governor Doty and Hon. J. F. Kinney, enclosing and calling attention to a portion of the message of the acting governor of Utah ifl relation to Indian reservations in that Territory. I agree with these gentlemen that the suggestions of the acting governor "am useful and practical," and would therefore recommend that they he carried into effect, for which purpose I respectfully suggest that the steps necessary to effect a sale of the Spanish Fork and San Pete reservations be taken immediately, and that the proceeds arising from such sale he applied to the improvement and preparation of the new reserve for the nse of the Indians. If, in your judgment, legislation is necessary to effect these objects, I further suggest that it be asked from the present Cbngress. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, WH. P. DOLE, Commirrionn. Hon. J. P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior. |
