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Show Ill esting notation is made in the 1873 report concerning one "Richard Koneas" (Richard Komas), a Ute who had been taken eastward by John Wesley Powell, and had been trained at Lincoln University (a Negro college) in Pennsylvania. Komas was there taking the census, part of the Powell and Ingalls survey. Critchlow's reaction to Komas is indicative of his objectivity. He says: Richard Koneas, (sic) one of this tribe but who has been for some time at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, visited his friends during my absence in Salt Lake City, and has, at my request by letter, taken as complete a census as possible. I have not yet seen him to ascertain the result, and, if possible, correct my own estimate.I2 The Salt Lake Daily Herald on December 5 •. 1879 recommended that Critchlow be fired for his and earlier agents inflated figures; their efforts failed when Richard Komas wrote to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Smith saying "[He is] not liked by the Indians and not in- 13 terested in them. He is haughty, somewhat harsh but he is honest." In a letter written to the Salt Lake Herald from the White River Agency on November 20, 1873, Komas lists the "Yampa, Grand River and Uintah Ute of Colorado Territory numbering 1,446 Indians; and Uintah Valley nl4 and White River Agencies numbering only 2,117 Indians. 12Ibid. 13Komas to Superintendent George Ingalls, October 29, 1874 in OIA Utah, 1874, c. 947, p. 413. ll+Salt_ Lake_ Daily_ HeraM, December 25, 1873. |