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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 133 Add to this for clothing, blankets, lodges, arms, ammunition, &c., two dollars per capita.. ................................ -$40-,000 00 And we have an aggregate of.. ............................. 100,000 00 which would not be more than might be judiciously and beneficially expended the ensuing year. Labor, provisions, and articles of merchandise of any description are exceed-ingly high in this country, and difficult to be had at any price. No reports have been received during the year from the Spanish fork of Car-son Valley agencies. The agents, it seems, are required to report to the Corn-missioner at Washington, instead of the superintendent.-(See accompanying correspondence between Agent Humphreys and this oece, marked A and B, herewith presented.) In consequence of no response being made to my request for funds, ag ex-pressed in my letter to the Oommissioner, dated November 26, and mailed November 27, 1860, I addressed him a second letter, on the same subject, dated January 21, 1861, urging an immediate remittance. No response of any sort came to any of these communications, and no funds being furnished me, I have been unable to do anything in the way of farming at any of the reserves; and refer to the separate reports of the agents for further information on this subject. The dreaded and vicious Snake Digger chief, San Pitch, and his large band, who occupy the country north and along the Oregon line, who are suspected of murdering the company of emigrants last fall, on the Snake river, visited my quarters during the last spring, an& informed me that there were several children of those cmigrants still alive, and held in captivity by the Baunacks, on the Humboldt river, or in the Goose Creek mountains, west. I appointed Mr. Henrie M. Chase, an experienced and reliable mountaineer, a special agcnt, and despatched him in pursuit of these captive children, subject to the approval of the department, and with instructions to report to the Commissioner of lndian Affairs. San Pitch and his band promised faithfully to render Mr. Ohase all the assistance in their power in accomplishing the object of his mission, and pledged their honor to commit no more murders or robberies on emi ants travellii,q through their country, which pledge I believe they will faitrfull7 observe, 9 not instigated by indiscreet persons attached to these companies, or bad white men inhabiting these mountains. The Indians of Utah, although the poorest and most helpless on the conti-nent, are not so demoralized and corrupted as those who have been brought into closer association with white men in other localities. Infidelity of the wife, or prostitution of an unmarried female, is punishable by death, and but few such acts transpire among them. If the fostering care of the government be liberally extended towards them, proper care and management can and will ultimately bring them under full subjection to the rules and amenities of civilized life. NO farming being carried on at Deep Creek reserve, I did not continue Farm-agent Seven in the service, but owing to the peculiar influence of Farm-Agent Rogers, at Ruby valley, over the Indians, I retained him at a compensation of six hundred dollars per anuum. I alao retained Jesse Bishop, at the Spanish Fork reserve, at one thousand dollars per annum. The preeeace of these two useful men at the points designated has exerted a salutary influence upon the Indian mind. My attention has been directed to generalities and details. Nothg have I omitted which was practicable with the means nuder my control. The failure of the departure to supply me the means necessary, prevented me from accom-plishing anything of importance in farming operations. The Indians are now all peaceable and entirely friendly with the whites, and |