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Show COXXISSIONER OP INDIAN AFFAIRS. 203 and, after some days successful fishing, they loaded the pack horses of the Indians with a large quantity of fish. The Utah lake and Provo river at this season of the year abound in fish, lrnown as mountain trout, and it is for the purpose of fishing that so large a number of the Utah tribe of Indians resort hither every spring. At the commencement the Indians manifested a very bad feeling tovards the settlers, and I have no doubt, had not some measurcs of a pacific nature been taken, that we would have had a renewal of the difficul-ties which characterized the year 1853. Those first disposed for peace were Tabba, Sanpitch, and Grosepine; the principal leaders of the disaffected were Tintick, Squash, and Autan-quer (Black-hawk.) The chiefs frequently complained that they had nor; no place of safety where their animals could feed, as in former years, in consequence of so much of the land having been improved and fenced in by the settlers, and requested tliat a pasture should be made for them bordering on the Provo river near their fishing grounds, where they could fish, at the same time protect themselves and animals from the Shoshonee, or Snake Indians, with whom they are almost constantly at war and in continual dread of; and urging still further, that there wonld be no necessity for encroaching upon the improved land of the settlers, I agreed to their proposals, and communicated their wishes to your cxcellency, who instructed me to carry the same into execution. As it is customary for the Indians to stop and camp for some time on their annual fis11in.g excursions at the cities of Springville and Pal-myra, and as the cltiaens of those places have suffered much from the same canse as those of Provo, and as your excellency has instructed me to make separate enclosures at the above named places, I shall pro-med at as early a clay as possible to give it that attention which tlie exigency of the case demands, and report through you to the Depart-ment of Indian Affairs. As I am not yet informed where the Indians will make their selections for the pastures at the different settlements, and as I shall give them that privilege, according to your instructions, I cannot at this time determine whether it will encroach upon the im-proyements of the citizens or not, bnt will endeavor to give that infor-matlon in my next report, also an estimate of the expenses attending the same. The principal chiefe of the Utahs are now on a visit to the Navajoes. They informecl me that they would return about the fiist uf September, when the matter will be finally determined npon. I wonld also call the attention of the department to the present, as well as the fkture, condition of the Indians for the coming year, in regard to p,rovisions. It has beencustomary heretoforewith the Indians in this sec-tlon of the Territory to depend in a great measure upon the settlements for a large share of their living, and which has heretofore been liberallj-granted to them; but from the almost total destruction of tlie crops in the more southern sections of the Territory by grasshoppers, as well as the long continued and unprecedented drought, necessity forbids an exten-sion of their former liberalit.y ,. I would therefore recommend to thede-partlnrnt to empr,\rzert heir s p u r in tl,is section ot'tt~eT erl.itory to lwo-vide the In<li;ll~wai th wbcnt. r7 ,111 a11d some cattle. whi<,lr~i l l in a "rr ent measure prevent them from committing depredations npon this and adjoining sections of the Territol y. Jleasures should be immediately |