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Show (140A) Garland Hurt to Comm. Ind. Aff. RG 75 Microcopy 234 June 30, 1857 Reel 898 Great Salt Lake City June 30th, 1857 Sir--I have the satisfaction of reporting in behalf of the Utahs and other adjacent tribes of Indians in the territory of Utah, that no disturbances of any kind have occurred during the quarter ending at this date. This uninterrupted harmony which has now prevailed among these tribes for more than twelve months, is justly attributable to the efforts which have been made to establish them upon suitable reservations, and to introduce among them a system of agriculture, and though these reservations have been visited during the season by large bands of wild Indians who live east of the Wasatch Mountains, the influence which those farms exerted upon them through the home tribes, has enabled to conduct our intercourse with them in a very tranquil manner. We have in cultivation this season at these settlements about 700 acres, as follows, viz: at the Spanish Fork farm 220 acres wheat, 41 acres oats, 10 Barley, 50 corn, 8 Potatoes, 2 buckwheat, 4 turnips, and 2 acres garden. At the Sanpete farm 153 acres wheat, 10 oats, 16 corn, 8 potatoes, 8 squash and beets, melons and garden. At the Aired farm 25 acres wheat, corn, and squashes. At the Corn Creek farm 95 acres wheat, 50 corn, potatoes and squashes. The crops look promising and |