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Show reservations of bands, with the view of establishing a more regular system of farming sending the Indians accordingly on the 5th I visited Corn Creek in camping with several gentlemen of Fillmore and the principal men and chieves (sic.) of the Pahvantes; and examined the soil and amount of water- Finding the former of good quality and the latter of sufficient quantity to irrigate 700 or 1000 acres, and laid out one township of thirty six square miles beginning in the Northwestern corner at the base of a small butte, about one mile South of where the Military road now crossed the Corn Creek, thence, East Six miles thence South Six miles, to the base of the mountains, thence West Six miles, thence North Six miles to the beginning. I then told the chieves (sic) the object of my visit among them, and laid before them my future plans for introducing a knowledge of agriculture and the other useful roles of civilization among them. And also of educating their children when they should have become sufficiently settled. Giving them to understand at the same time that these things could not be done for them without their aid, but that all depended upon their own exertions, and that we would not help them unless they would help themselves. After I had concluded one of the chieves replied that his heart felt glad that his tongue was not able to describe how glad his heart felt while I was speaking. Since the white people have come |