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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. ~chw?. -~yt he time this reaches the orintine Dress our soh001 will be ooon.n,.v iu~a " the two laria a u l ct,mmc~dio#l1s ,tlildin':r whiGh' rl.3uk.i ro rhr rnrrnetir p<,lnrpn i rho prc4rnr l'ornt#~issioncra,n ' u ~ n r i t~.o~mgpl ctic,n. llring h.rndaoruely l ~ ~ r ~ itnc a~ l . prrrtk t l.oa,cr ui crrtrn, these Iinc bulldinus ail1 r-i vc 38 dotd srhoul a<~c~mmoel:t- " ~ tions as any in the serdoe, if not as large. This echo01 in the past has suffered &om a variety of causes-poor aocommodat.tlons, bad management and sickness. Two superintendents md matrons having bean dis-ohnrged by the 1;dim Offioo forineffieiency during the last school term w111 explain much of dhhe poor managomout. The sohdol is literally to be L'built up." To do this is the dntv now before sn~erintendenat nd aeent. Police.-Tllc jwlit- i m c i nn<t5rs oi r 1,rlr;irrs. izcl.geanf, 1 cnpt.~iu,a t ld are rcry eRi< i ~ t i iln all 1h:tr prrriaius 1" tlteir d1111. s, i t r ~fx irly ~prnri(.~rlitur drill, hor s l ~ ~ t l i d h.nv !nun, drill lhsn I am neraor~all\n~b le 10 rive r l l~m. Comt of Indian offenses.-ibelievethe time gas comewhen such a, court would do g~u11rr .rvicc :.IIIUI.:: ~LCATRrih r's. 1 have Trielll 1l.e 1~l(.th0<o1i x rbtf~-,ti~twt,i th I n - di..ns t1.i utnpina, i u n t l t i ~ dit \v\-~rk\.v (.Il. 'TO illt~.rt~.ati~le, . I ~ w - ~ l ~ ~ ~ l i ~ . ~ ., irtt of tltrse 1udiiln.i: 111 I A ~ IU ereml,,,r rhe firsr <as..o f nrrr-r ,,inn l n d t ~ rli~t cci tc,~L r rhd ~ dren) are reported by s~enc<physieiana nd ~{bi r ths . Conolusion-It izgr:trii,i.i!rg tn nlote avtol.. i!nprovr~~trninr rhn mnnncr and mt.r>nlso f the rrilwc i n the p:t*r ! c l r . avt#l u. ul,hene 11..3 invrms..d crijrt~oi11.pIl epi~rl~tt~1,!0t t f t~rni s lu~ll pm9iI I t , l'?viIilit!$ tbr llwir 1'11rIhera ~lvau~c c~~:ae9 nIrlw. cr:.<rtr.ill now authorized to be built and the two fine schoolhouses ebdut bompletd;l abundantly attest. OURAT SUBAGENCY AND REBEIWATION. It is aitueterl in the valleys of the Green, White, and Dn Chesne rivers, and eon-tains 2,000,000 acres of land, laying as it does immediately east of Uintnh. The two agencies were oonsolidnted and plaoed under the oere of one agent in the year 1886 by set of Congress. There is very lit,tl,tle farm land on this reserve exoo t what is located on the Uu Chasne River from 4 miles from its mouth to the west inn of the reserve, and these lands are so located as to reqnire morn expensive ditches than the Indians can make; neither can it be done by the available agency forne. Buildings.-The agency buildings stand on s, barren, grnvelly bench a* tho junction of the Du Chesne and Green rivers. The agent's house is n good building, and a small building, built for a. schoolhouse but now used for offioe, is also fair. dside from these all others are log and stockade str~~otures-dirt-covere<al nd very old, and of no money value. If the aohool buildings me built on the location as selected by Col. Parlier, special agent, Superintendent Binford, and myself, it will noeeusitnte the removal of the agency to that same locality. This removal I wonld strongly recommend. Schools.-This tribe (Onraysj have never had either clmroh, missionary, or schools on their own reservation, notwithstanding their treaty, approved Jnnc 15, 1880, ox-presaly provides fbr schoolhouses, and careti11 estimates \rere m.tdc by Nlossrs. J. J. Russell, Ot,to bIear8, and Thomas A. Morris, Ute commissioners, for sohoolhouses and other buildings sud supplies upon their location here in 1881. Xoither %mar-ent noglect nor the inherent diffionltien of their naturally barren reserve has hin-dered these Indians from a. degce of improvement, and the llniversal verdict of all observers is that they as n tribe are more enlightened, intelligent, avrd progressive than their brother Utes. Through the enlightened and progressive policy now at the Indian Ofiieo n site has been selected for a sohool building, and proposals will be sdvertisod for soon, an that this long-felt want is in a fair way to be supplied. It may be too muoh to expect that this tribe will sustain a, large sohool for the first year, or perhaps two, ' hut a beginning muat be made, or a sohool can never be built up; and, as I rernarked iua, oommunioatiou on this subject to the Department last April (2d), there is danger of their settling down into a, "stoical md dogged'' indifference that will take years to overcome, hnt continued and susta,ined efforts on the line of progress will work wonders with these people, and I am persuaded that the expenditure of so much money as is neenod to build about three good oanals, brinninw abont 15,000 acre6 "under water," build two good sohool buildings and suoh b~ilrl%gs as would be ne0ded to relocate the *nor near these good farms, would be well and wisely invested. Anything short of this will in my opinion be to relegate these Indians to their aimless, nomadic life for indefinite rears to come. |