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Show 79 port for I867. In commenting on the wealth of the tribes in Utah he stated: The income of the most wealthy tribes does not average above $5 for each individual annually. The country occupied by many of the tribes is nearly a desert; a few valleys capable of subsisting game or suitable for agriculture are occupied by settlers, whose presence has caused the game to become extinct. The Indians must be fed by the government, or by the settlers. If this is done, no trouble need be apprehended; if not done, like their superiors in civilization, they will steal before they will starve. This leads to pursuit, recrimination, and war.l^ It is of more than passing interest that his report on the means of subsistence includes the following sentence: The principal agricultural operations are in connection with the Uintah agency. Here, however, owing to want of means, but little has been accomplished.15 From the above comments it may have been inferred that the war ended in 1867; it did not. Although the fury was taken out of the battle, it was not over. With so little done to provide for the influx at Uintah, raids were a necessity to secure sustenance for the Indians. The raids of 1868 were of the same character as those of previous years. The cost in lives was much lower, probably because the Mormons did not pursue the Indians into the hills where the advantages were held by the raiders. 1^Ibid., p. 179• !5lbid. |