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Show I 210 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. strong in the opinion that one-half of the amount required here for purchases, judiciously expended in the States for such articles as are required to open up farms and supply the Indians, would purchase nsmore goods of a better quality, and give better satisfaction than the whole amount expended here. I cannot close without speaking in the highest terms of Wm. S. Berry, esq., my interpreter, for his firmness and assiduity in the management of thcse Indians, which has been far more difficult on account of so much less I had to give the past year than former agents. Trusting, as I do, another year my condition and experienee will be such to enable me to report dike more satisfactory to your honor and more creditable , to myself, I remain, sir, your obedient servant, T. W. HATCH, ' , United States Indzan Agmt. Hon. JA.~DE. DSO TY, Superintendent Indim Affairs, Uta6. Territwy. Diagram of Spanish Fork Indian f h , Utah Temtory, and proposed new dm. [For diagram, see original report.] Having no field-chain to measure, or field-notes to plot from, the r6se~ation 1 have draw it from the eye, which will show the relative position in which it liei s u%~ i e n #to~ give you an idea of the strip of land which I auggest to he added to the reservation, which is marked off in dotted lines, and. position of the new dam. Respectfully, yours, F. N. HATCH, Indian Agent. No. 42. UTAHS UPERINTENDENICNYD IAAPFNA TRS, , Great Salt Lake City, Augwt 13, 1.862. SIR : On the 6th of March last I deemed it my duty to advise your depart-ment, as also the Secretary of War, of the threatened attacks by the Shoshones upon the emigrant trains passing through the mountains the then coming season, and to suggest the occupation by a regiment of troops of some point in the vicinity of Fort Hall, on Shoshone river, near the point of intersection of the ,northern California road with the roada to Oregon, and from this city to Salmon river gold mines. Subsequently, as additional information was received from friendly Indians that it was the intention to assemble a large force, estimated by them at two thousand, sufficient to overpower any train, I ventured again to call the attention of the government to the threats and conduct of these Indians, and the prospect that many emigrants would lose their lives or be robbed of their property if military protecti~nw as not given at that point, and asked of the Secretary of War a portion of the $25,000 appropriation for the defence of emigrants, bo , $rovide for their protection at the place threatened. The subject was renewed in my letters of April 11, with the further informa-tion that they would certainly commence their depredations upon the overland ' mail line east of this city. All the officers of the United Staten then here, and the officers of the overland mail and teleeaph companies united in a telegram to the Secretary of War, a |