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Show UTAH SUPERINTEADENCY. 179 KO. 68. DEPARTMEONF TTH E INTBRIOII, Ofice Indian A@irs, May 17, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to enclorre herewith four treaties negotiated with the mixed bands of Banuacks and Shoshonees, the easteln band of Shoshonees, the northweste~nb ands of Shoshonees, and the Shoshonee Goship bands of Indians: respectively, to each of wbich t.reaties the Senate has made an amendment. You will please cause these several treaties, as amended, to be laid before the respective tribes, and endeavor to secure their aseent thereto at as early a day as practicable, and return the same to this oftice. As there is no fund from which to defray the expenses incidental to calling the Iudiaus together for the express purpose of procuring their assent to the amendments, you can, for this purpose, probably improve the occasion of their assembling for their payments; ot,herwise tbe expense will have to he paid out of such lunds as are at your disposal for the incidental expenses of yonr snper-intendency. Very respectfully, yonr obedient servant, WILLIA3I P. DOLE, Commissioner. I I i s Encellcncv JAMEDSO ANBD OTY, ~ore7nw"aPrde z ojicio Superintmdmt India,' Affairs, Great Salt Lnlce City, U. T. No. GR. GREATS ALTL AKEC ITY,U . T.,A ugu~t2 6, 1864. SIR : I arrived here last evening, having been detained on the road by the eickness and death of one of my children. i X I 1 X * * * I The office rented for $300 per annnm cannot now be had for less than $1,200. Prices have advanced in about tlie same proportion in a11 departments. Flour, $25 per hundred pounds; coffee, $1 25 per pound; sugar, S5 cents, and bcef, 15 and 20 cents per pound. Under this state of facts, I am compzlled to rent and fit up offices, and purchase some goods for Indians, to keep them in n good humor until those now en rosle from the Missouri river arrive. I can only assure the department that I will be as economical as possible; but, under tho circumstances, the bills will be large and prices very high. The Indians within this superintendency are peaceful, although they seem uneasy, and I learn are unusually exacting in their demands, and look with jealousy upon t l ~ eef forts of miners to explore what tbey claim as their country. The people are incli~iedto pursue a kind and conciliating policy towards the Indians. I am in hopes that the Indian difficulties now east of us will not ex-tend into this superintendency. I paseed safely tbrough the midst of the diffi-culties on the plains. Trains were plundered, and murders committed before, behind, and around us, but we were not disturbed. I made an informal call upon President Young to-day. He gave me a good deal of information as to the Indians, and his views as to the policy that shonld be pursued toward them in these exciting times. He did not believe there was any need of difficnlty with our Indians here; that it was better to feed them than to fight them. 1 tlrouglbt myself justified , in saying that the views of the department in theee matters were the same as |