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Show 76 Tabby was in all probability telling the truth, as the situation, at Uintah was so desperate that the Indian people crossed the frozen snow to raid the corrals in the Heber City area. The raids continued through the summer and fall of 1866. By 1867, the Heber City environs were well garrisoned and the raids ceased. It was, however, the central and southern portions of the territory which bore the brunt of the war. Bancroft reports: Although the militia of the southern counties were constantly in the field, and reinforcements were sent from Salt Lake City under General Wells, the California volunteers being then disbanded, more than fifty of the Mormon settlers were massacred, an immense quantity of stock captured, and so widespread the alarm that many of the southern settlements were for the time abandoned, the loss to the community exceeding $1,100,000. Of this sum no portion was voted by congress, the memorials of the Utah legislature asking for reimbursements being ignored, although the militia had served for more than two years without pay, and the governor had declared that their claims were just and their services necessary.10 The following section of a memorial to Congress suggests the heavy toll on the central settlements: To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the U.S., in Congress assembled Gentlemen: Your memorialists the Governor and Legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah would most respectfully represent to your honorable body that, during the years 1865-66 and 67 there was df vexatious Indian lOBancroft, History of Utah, op. cit. , p. 633. |