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Show XLlV REPORT OF THE COMMIBBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I the physician cannot be snccessfi~lly combated unless the pat,ient is I under the immediate care and control of the physician, and this is im-practicable where there is no hospital. Small hospitals could be erected at agencies at s l i ~ hcto st.; and t.he benefits mcruing from such an aux-iliary would speedily be apparent and more than compensate for the small outlay necessary. The advantage of silch a system would be that the sick \?auld be removed from the dangerous influence and iuterfer-ence of the medicine men and subjected to a regimen, the benefits of which they would not be slow to realize. The fame of such an instit.ut.io11 would rapidly spread among the Indians and inspire greater confidence in the physician, thus becoming a valuable aid in inducing them to exchange the meaningless songs and incantations of the medicine men for the quiet, scientific, and rational treatment of the white man. A RESERVATION FOR THE YUMAS OF ARIZONA. The Puma 1ndiius have lived for many gears on the bottotn lands ! dong the Colorado River for a distance of 10 miles above and 30 nliles below Fort Ynma, in Arizona. Upon the representations of Lieutenant Hutton, Eighth Infantry, U. S. A.? forwarded by the War Department, and of othertrustworthy persons who knew of their destitute condition, a reservation has been recently set apart for the Yumas at the centlu- I I ence of the Colorado with the Gila River, where it is hoped they may i be gatbered together and assisted ill agricultural pursuits. Some neoessrtry relief lras already been afforded them in floor pnr- 1 chased by the agent at the Colorado River Agency. I 1 The chief of the Pumas states the number of his people to be 1,137, I but Lieutenant Hutton estilnates their number to be much gfeater. I They are peaceable and industrious, and deserve substantial assist-ance at the hands of the Government. But few of the Indians are now on the reservation so set apart, and from the best information that can be obtained it is thought that those along the Colorado River should not be compellei1 to remove to the reservation until provision is made for some system of irrigation that will enable them to support themselves by farming. COAL ON THE WHITE XOUNTAIN BESERVATION IN ARIZONA. 'The coal discoveries on the San Carlos, or, more properly, the White Mountain Indian reservation, in Arizona Territory, formed the subjeet I of extended notice in my last annual report. No action was taken on the draft of a joint resolation prepare4 in this office and transmitted to Congress by the President on April 17, 1882,' and the status of the question has undergone no change or modification whatsoever. Bills were introduced in the last Congress (H. R. 4146 and 537Yj providing ' Besolntian printed in fall in Annual Report Commissioner Indizs Hairs, 1€% |