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Show UTAH AGENCY. 381 The above is a rough estimate, but your own knowledge of the facta nil1 enable you to hear testimony to its near approximation to truth ; and to those who are of opinion that the Indians must be fed, it can-not fail of presenting the policy which I have endeavored, under so many unfavorable circumstances, to establish and carry out among these destitute tribes in a favorable light. It seems to be a common error of those who have undertaken to localize and civilize the wild tribes, to labor under the impression that time and uatience form no Dart of the srstem, and are not necessary to & its success. Very respectfullq-, your obedient servant, GARLAND HURT. JACFOOBR NEEYsq,. , Superintendent Indian Afairs L;tah. No. 178. UTAHA GENCYSP, ANLSFEO RKIN DIARNES ERVATION, September 30, 1859. SIR: Having entered upon the duties of agent for the Utah Indians in the month of June last, my opportunities for acquainting myself with their present condition have been limited, and the incidents of the service so few, as to forbid anything like an elaborate report. I have devoted a portion of my time in endeavoring to ascertain the extent of this agency and the number of Indians embraced in it, and find that it covers one half, if not more, of the entire superin-tendency, being bounded on the north by the southern line of Great Salt Lake country, on the east by Kansas, on the south by New Mexico, and on the west by the Sierra Nevadas. According to information received from the most reliable sources, it contains an Indian population of about 15,000, known as Utahs, San-Petes, Pah-Vants, and Pah-Utes. It is due to the Indians of this agency to say that, so far as I have any kno~vledgeo f their conduct, they have been peaceable and orderly, no dewredations of anv kind havinz" been n.e ruetrated bv them since L my services commenced. The three farms at Spanish Fork, San-Pete, and Corn creek, which were commenced by my predecessor, were intended for the accommo-dation of those bands only whose lands had been at the time usurped I and occupied by the white population. - h Settlements are still being extended over the Territory, and into valleys claimed and occnpied by other bands, which must necessarily deprive them of their hunting grounds, and greatly impair their already too limited means of subsistence. The lands adapted for cultivation in the Territory are limited, and are those best qualified for the gratuitous support of its original in-habitants, being the only spots upon which they can subsist during the , accumulated snows of winter, in the mountains. These localities, if |