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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 363 This I learn from old mountaineers who have lived among them: 1 corroborated by Indiau testimony. The descendants of the two nations above alluded to are now called Sho-sho-ne or Snake, and Utah or Ute. The only exception is a small tribe of Banuacks, numbering about five hundred. " Horn," the principal chief of these, with his people, visited Fort Bridger in April, 1858, where I had an interview with them. This chief claimed a home for himself and people in this Terri-tory, and informed me that he and those old men around him were children, young men, and now old men, in this country. Major Bridger, my interpreter at the time, assured me that for the last thirty years he had traded, almost yearly, with this tribe in that section of country, and that, when he first knew them, they numbered 1 twelve hundred lodges. I granted to this tribe of Bannacks a home in the portion of this Territory claimed and inhabited by Wash-a-kee and his tribe of Sho- I sho-nes, and with that chief's entire consent. These two tribes are i extensively intermarried, and live together amicably. This division of the Indians is subdivided into fourteen re-c ularlv organized bands. One of these, by common consent, is denominated a tribe, and is under the complete control of Chief Wash-a-kee, assisted by four to six s~~b-chiefs. These number, at least, twelve hundred. The remaining thirteen bauds have each one principal and several sub-chiefs. Five of these bands, numbering about one thousand, roam through Salt Lake, Weber, Ogden, Bear River, Cache, and Malad valleys, and the adjacent mountains and caiions. One band, of one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty, mostly confine themselves to the regions along the northern California road, from Bear and Malad riv-ers to the Goose Creek mountains. Seven bauds roam through the valleys of the Humboldt, and in the regions over one hundred miles south of the Humboldt, to the Peyute country, and east and west about two hundred miles. These bands fre-quently subdivide into many small squads, to clean thoroughly the country, through which they roam of everything containing a life-sus-taiuing principle. Included among the Sho-sho-nes is a band called Go-sha-ntes, who speak the same language, and live in and roam over those portions of the territory claimed and inhabited by the latter. This band is a mix-ture of Snake and Ute, the former preponderating. A few years ago the Go-aha-utes were a considerable tribe. Their principal and only chief died about four years ago, since which they have remained broken and subdivided into small fragments, exc'ept about sixty, who have organized into a band, and have a quiet and well disposed chief to control them. This baud is now permanently locatedon the Deep Creek Indiau f a d . The remainder roam over a region of country from forty to two hundred miles west of this city. A conceutratiou of them all |