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Show sa nuij,; |-ago _,. result also of considerable discussion between tho Secretary and myself. I took pains to see that your view of the matter was very fully set forth; in fact, although I was not convinced by it myself, I felt so anxious not to make any mistake that I put the case in all its most attraotive phases before the Secretary without telling him what my own opinions were. Fie reached his conclusion by precisely the same path that I reached mine. I am sorry for these Utes. that they have got so far from their old moorings, and that they know so little of the world; but I am compelled,in deciding about such matters as this mill.to follow certain general logical lines. If I could get Congress to enact the legislation which I have persistently urged upon it for incorporating Indian tribes, I would then not hesitate for a moment to recommend the establishment of such a mill as soon as business seemed considerable enough in the neighborhood to make it pay. As it is, the money would have to be taken out of tho Utes'fund, and I do not see any prospect of its early reimbursement. In the meanwhile they will have a serious struggle for a livelihood and I am in hope that some of them will develop enough courage to go forth into the world and hire themselves out as day laborers, rather than stay and try to support themselves by tho pursuit of agriculture in spite of all thoir ignorance of farming as it is conducted in the .7oct under irrigation. If the young men would do this and leave the older ones there to run the farms, and the young men having learned the value of a dollar |
