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Show UTAH BUPERINTEXDENCY. 131 by fish or fowl. It is said that three barrels of the water of this lake will make one of pure salt by the simple process of boiling. In my first interview with the Indians of this superintendency, I found them timid, reserved, snspicions, sullen, and repulsive. A better acquaintance secured their confidence, and I flatter myself with the belief that I am respected by them, and command a con-trolling influence over them, as far as I am known among them. In pursuance of my plan previously communicated to the department, to organize the detached and ~catteredb ands of Goshu-Utes under one common head, the Chief Ads-Sin, I made arrangements to reach and bring in all the petty chiefs of that once pow-erful tribe, with their followers, who kept secreted in the mountains and deserts; and Green Jacket, Teekutnp, Jack, Tabby, and their bands, hare tra*-elled hun- ' dreds of miles to see me, and have spent several days each at my quarters. Wonibijinnu, the famous mountain robber, refusing to come, was strategetically seized by my directions and brought many miles on his way to this city, when be turned upon his captors and was killed, which is approved by the Indians and whites generally. This tribe will hereafter, in my opinion, remain rejnve-nated and united, under their former chief, " Old Ibnn." One of this tribe -,as missing from about the Willow Spring mail station last fall, and they strongly slispect he has been murdered by the employks there. Others nwe missing shortly after, in a similar way, about Grantsville, in Lovely valley, aud the whites there are snspected of having put them out of the way. The Indians have instituted diligent search and made some threats, but unless new aggrava-tions transpire, I pl-esume there is no special danger to bc apprehended from thosc causes. The immense depth of the snoF, which in somo places was said to he as much as fifty feet, rendered locomotion with heeled vehicles impracticable, and although I ventured as far as the safety of my animals and men permitted, I was forced to confine my operations p~incipallyto the hands and tribes ~vhoc ame from necessity by llnndreds to visit me at my quarters. Including those whom ' I have visited and the,multit:ldes that have congregated around my quarters, I have seen ant1 made liberal distriht~tion of presents among every tribe and hand in this Territory, except those in Carson valley and certain remote bands on the head of tho Humboldt river and Goose creek.. The chiefs and prii~cipal men, ' ~vitbth eir families, have spent some time with me, and I hwe conversed fully with them, through my excellent interpreter, Mr. Dimmiclt B. Huntington, who has lived here twenty years, converses freely in each language, is wcll known by every band and chief throughout the Te l~i toqa, nd wiclds great influence over them all. In these conversations I discovered that they had a suspicion that it was the policy of the whites to populate their country and drive them into, the big waters west of them, and some trouble may he anticipated in attempts to negotiate the purchase of their lands by treaty or otherwisc. Most of the soil susceptible of cultivation is now settled and occupied by white persons, and the tide of population, attracted hither by the peculiar religious notions of the settlers of this Territory, will soon leave but little space for the poor Indian. I have again to urge the importance of extending the limits of the resen-e at Ruby valley and Deep creek, (or Ibimpah) so as to embrace the -,hole of zaid valleys, and that surveys of the same he immediately made and their boundaries regu-larly designated. I alao recommend the establishment of resen-cs and farms for the Snakes (Wash-akeis hand and Bannacks) on Green rix-er, three hundred miles east of this city, and also for the Weber-Ute*, Littlc Soldier's hand, on Weber river. For the varinus bands of Utes, Pah-Cte.2, I'nh-mnts, and others who congregate at the Spanish Fork farm, I recommend the establishment of a reserve, including the wl~oleo f Winter valley in addition to the Spanish fork, Corn creek, and San Pete reserve. As the sum appropriated, for the Indian service in this Territory is only about forty thousand dollars per annnm, I beg |