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Show COMMISSIONER OB INDIAN AFFAIRS. 201 faithfully rendered, and I thought it but just that they should be paid ; for, though the crops are small, the improvements on the lands are not lost, and will be of great advantage in preparing for a crop next season, and I shall be careful to hold those improvements as agency property. I would take occasion to suggest here that treaties ought to be negotiated with these tribes, as early as possible, for the title to their lands, which are now held and occupied by the whites. It is a thing almost unprecedented in the history of our Indian policy to go into any State or Territory and make extensive and permanent imorovements uaon soil claimed bv Indians without extin-g uishin-g th& claims by &eaty. This delay is not only unjust to the Indians, by depriving them of their wonted hunting grounds, without paying that respect to their claims which is due them, according to our usage with other tribes, but it is equally so to the pioneer settler, who is forced to pay a con-stant tribute to these worthless creatures, because they claim that the land, the wood, the water, and the are theirs, ind we have not paid them for these things. The funds which would fall due these tribes by the negotiation of such treaties, if properly managed, would go far to remove from the people the burden which is consequent upon their support. In conclusion, I would remark that we have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the success of the efforts which have been made to cul-tivate and sustain peaceful relations with the nations throughout the Territory ; and when we look around and see to what a vast expense the government has been in the Indian service in the adjoining Terri-tories, we are forced to conclude that the policy which has been pur-sued in this is the best that could have been adopted under the cir-cumstances. Believing that Where peace can be sustained at a less expense than war it is certainly most desirable, especially in a Terri-torv so remote from the oarent countrv and so inaccessible to troovs. " Very respectfully, ybur obedient kervant, GAELAND HURT. Ind<an Agent for huh. His Excellency BRIGHAMY OUNG, Governor and Ex-O$cio Superintendent Indian A w s , Utah Tewitoy. - No. 101. C I or~ P~ ovoJ, une 30, 1855. Sm : In conformity with the usages of the Indian Department, I have the honor to transmit to you my report for the quarter ending June 30, and through you to the Department of Indian Affairs. Since entering upon the duties of Indian sub-agent for the Terri-tory of Utah, on the 27th of April last, my operations have been lim-ited to the vicinity of Provo city. On the 21st of May last, during my absence at Salt Lake city, on business for the Indian Department, (See vouchers, Nos. 1 & 2.) a report was circulated that a mare and calt had been killed, belonging to a chief of the Utah tribe of Indians, |
