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Show UTAE SUPERIFTENDENCY. I 205 be stationed at this post, its capacity being ample, without the expenditure of but a very small amount of means, to quarter that number. In obedience to the request of circulars, I will transmit to the department separately the information desired : first, as to the employes; second, as to schools ; also, as to farms and farming. I cannot too strongly urge upon the department thk necessity of placing the Shoshones npon a reservation to be located at one of the three points, vie: The Wind Hiver valley, which is said to be one of the finest valleys in the mountains. . It lies in the western portion of Nebraska, east of the Rocky range, and is susceptible of a high degree of cultivation. The only objection that can be urged against its location is its close proximity to other tribes with whom the Shosho-nes are at war. The next location that I would mention is the valley of Smith's fork. This valley, however, is embraced within the limits of the large military reservation, twenty by twenty-five miles square. Large bodies of land along the fork are susceptible of a high state of cultivation. Judge Wm. A. Carter; the sutler at this post, is successfully farming some three hundred acres in that locality. The last and only location that I would call your attention to is the valley of Henry's fork, in conjunction with the Green River valley. This location is situated north of the Uintali range of mountains, and south and east of the military reserve. Large numbers of the mountaineers who areliving in this locality have been in the habit of wintering there. The amount of lands susceptible of cultivation is somewhat limited. Hoping that the department will approve of my recommendations in this report, alike vital to whites and Indians, I have the honor to be, yery respect-filly, your obedient servant. LUTHER MANN., Ja... United States Indian A p t . Hon. JAnres D. DOTY, Snpwintmdmt Indian Axairs, Greai Salt Lake City, U. T. No. 41. UTAHA GENCYS,P ANISHF ORIKN DIFAANR M, Utah Territory, September lG, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to submit to you my first annual report, which will not be as full and satisfactory to myself as I eould wish. I entered npon the duties of my of6ce the2Gth day of October, and found the Indian farms located within my agency in a destitute condition, stripped of their stock, tools, and movable fences, and no one living upon either of them. Two notes came into my hands, on which I collected 230 bushels of wheat and 700 barrels of flour, being the only means I have received for the large and uumer-ous bauds of Utah Indians. And to relieve their wants, having no menus at my disposal, I have been compelled to purchase on credit from the inhabitants, and using most of the salary I have received, for the immediate and absolute wants of these Indians. It will require the sum of one thousand dollars to pay the employ6s and liquidate the debts of this agency. I am happy to report there have been but few depredations committed which have come to my knowledge, immediately within my jurisdiction, of much mag-nitude. Most of the Indians have been peaceable and loyal. Within my agency proper, if I understand it correctly, there are five different tribes of Indians: Utahs, Shoshones, Goshee Utes, Par Tans, and Pie Edes, and each is divided into several hands, with chiefs, besides several small bands with snh-chiefs. |