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Show average yield; still it will he so improvement on that of thelast or any previons year. For the estimated yield and value of crops I refer you to my statistical report, tor-warded herewith. We have made considerable new pole-fenoe, but have not yet snoceeded in feuoing the entire Indian farm. The high water interfered with our operations and destrojed apart of what we built. The area embraced, when completed, will he perhrrps fire hundred acres, but from causes heretofore explained will not contain more than two hundred of tillable land. The Indians.-I have had no new data by which I might be led to chanre the esti-meted number of Indians making thia agency their headquarters, from &at it was last year, viz,$ ht hnndred. I had hoped to have had n nlore eomplot,o CenElla taken, hut have thus gr been unable to do so. I am not prepared to speak confidedtty with reomd to any change that may have taken place either in their phyeical or moral con- . dirion; still I think there h a been some fw the better in both; I think certainly in the former, whioh is evidenced bv the almost entire ahseuca of any serious sickness. This mnst be nnclerstood as referrikg to tho time before they left the agency. There had up to that time been no deaths, so far as I could learn, and baafew !>irtbs. I haveunder-stood, however, that some sickness has prevailed in th*iir oamp near the settlements, in the neighborhood of Spanish Fork, though in my recent visit to their oamp in thst locality I eould not learn tc what extent. I have thought I also noticed a. gradnal im-provement in the cbarnoter sod habit8 of our chiefs and others, but the change, if suy, is not marked and decided, the influenoss oaloc~latedt o produce it being of silent and ~ubt l ac h a s t e r . The improved character of the employ6s, th? raspeot shown for the Sabbath by all white persons connected with the agency, no vork being done or issues made on that day, my employBs being enjoioed ta abstain from all improprieties of language or intercourse with the Indians, personal kindness and conversation with somn of the chiefs and others, who can understand and speak a little English, all pro-dueing a silent md, I think, s sdntrrry influence. The above may appear to eonfliot with the reports that have been widely circulated of the hostile attitode of the Uiutah and White River bands of Utes. I have recently returned from a visit to their oemp, in which, with my interpreter, I slept &I1 night without molestation or apprehension; nothing bnt the kiodestfseliugs were manifaated, sud they expressed their deaire and intention of retnrniug to the rsservatiolr. A few days after a, oouncil was held with t,hetn at Spriugvills. hy Colooel Morrow, commilod-inv at. Camp Douglas, at wwhh a. large number of Iodisns and whites were present. TI% Iodisns ex~ressad an earneat desire for peaoe and friendship with all, and were ready aud willing to retire to their sgenoies. I am satisfied that all who were at the oounoil referred to were satisfied that the reports of the hostile oharseter of our Io-diaos were, to say the least, very highly ex% mated Without doctbt some wild spirits had been guilty of somn deprwlntions-tfe1.e aie alwrqvs soma of every hand that connot be controlled-but it is unfair to hold the large body of oar Iodiaua, who desire to be friendly, respons:ble for the oondnat sod acts of a, fcw reneeades. In view of all the facts pertdning to our Indians, I do not feel disposed to modify what I have said on their behalf. No sehaola or missions have yet been established. From tho smallness of the appro-priations fw the use ofthia agegeocy, I have not felt authorimd to commence the erec-tion of suitable buildings. I would, however,reoommend, should the appropriatiou for the ourrant year be eoffioiant, that artitable building6 be erected and teachera (a male and a female) be employed, and an industrial aohooi be ostahlished as early ~s practi-cable. Teachers should be employed at oooa, 80 as to preparo themselves by obtaining a knowledge of the Indian laoguqe and ehsrncter for efficiency in their work. Schools and missions eould and ought to be oanduoted by the seme persons; and, by the 00-operation of the church-board to which this agenoy has been assigned, I have no doubt both oould be established, and work together rcononlioally and efficiently. Many of the Indisns have expressed a desire for schools. and I am confident were rher established under proper ausgioes they would be productiveof great and most beneficial resalts. I cannot close this already too lengthy report without calling the attention of the Depmtment to the neoessitg that exists for the eqoalizat,ion of the Indinusof this agenoywith those of White River in respect to supplies of dl kinds. The relationships existing, and the eonatant communications between tiis two s encies, render any dif-ference that exist8 familiar to ours, md, as the ndvetntnve is dways in favor of the White River Utes, it beeom- a sotlrce of much disaatisf&tion with ours. They cannot antlerstand why thia difference should exist, and are disposed, some of them at least, TO blame thea ent unjustly; yet they require him to issue to their White River breth-ren, and wmpf&in if he does not do so. I have endeavored to explain to them t,ht.hat Washington" does not send me goods for White River Indians, and that they (nurs) will beshort in bonsrqnence. I have been compellad hitherto to issne ta them in common when the White River Utes are p=e88ntl whioh ia frequently th.e c ase. I |