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Show L 150 REPOET OF AGENT IN UTAH. NUMBER ASD KISD OF ISDIAN ROUSES. Of houses occupied by Indians there are 87, and all but 7 are frame. Many of them are very good buildin and are kept neat and clean. Most of the Indians living in the neighborhood of tEagenoy have furniture, dishen, &o. Some spread table-cloths and prepare as savory a meal a8 many white persons. One of the best houses an4 the neatest kept was aocidentally bnrned down last January. It belonged to and was oooupied by John Mission, one of the leading htdians here, and one of the parties to the treaty in 1856. He lost nearly a11 his bol~seholdg oods, old relies, &o. FURS, SKINS, ETC., SOLD. The number and value of furs and akius sold can only be estimated. During lant fall and winter thew Indiana mnst have killed over 1,000 deer, and their skins to-gether with the badger, bear, beaver, coyote, fox, fisher, mink, lynx, and other sdins, would nun~bera t least 1,200 n.ud be worth not less than $350. - SVRSISTRNCE OF ISDI&SS. Fully ten-sixteenths of the si~hsistenee is obtained by the labor of the Indians, either for themselves or others snd only five-sixteenths by fishiug, hunting, root-gathering, &c. The other one-kxteenth consiats of rations issued to only the Piute Indians the apprentices, policemeu, &o. A11 of tile Indians except the Piutes s;Ee self.sus<aining, and ss soon as the latter can be located and oulti~ate land on their o m account, I expect them to become equally so. The supplien of food for the oomr ing year now promise to be more abundant than ever before. The catch of salmon h a b e e n unusually large, wild b e n i e ~a re uncommonly plent.y, and game is equally so, and, together with the grain oraps and garden prodncts, there need be no ar~ffering for want of foacl. EMPLOYES. At the present time there are but three white male employ6s beside8 myself, viz s physioian, clerk, and sawyer. Two of my regular employ68 me Indians, and fill thkir ositiona of miller snd superintendent of farming with Oredit and tolerable skill. I gopk yet to secure as white entplorBs a, teacher and assistant. COSCLC'SION. There can be no doubt but what these Indiana are making constant progress. This fact is most noticed and remarked upon by strangers, or persons who saw them some years ago and again have lately seen them. The seed has been scattered, and the gathering time is coming after many years, and promisaa an abundant harvest. What 1s now needed for many of them is citizensltip and a clear title to their Ian&, to whieh they are justly entitled by article 5 of the tresty of June 25, 1855. Some addibional and wise legislstian would wonderfully help these Indians. Very reapeotfully, yonr obedient servsnt, JOHN SMITH Unilod States Indim Bgent. The Coa.\rrrslos~Ro r INDIAAXIB AIRS. UISTAI? VALLEY AGESCY, UTAII, 7Vhite Roolrs, Awgust 31, 1880. SIR: I have the honor to submit the f o l l o \ ~ i ~a~s gn ly tenth annual report of the Indians and agency under my charge : I<DIANs-THE~R I'EACEFUL CONDVCT DURlSG WEITR RIVER TROCBIZS. It is exceedingly grat.if~ingt o all friends of these Indians, that, ~~otrrithstanding the outrages committed by the White River Utes, with whom ours are most inti-mately connected, and the protracted troubles and unrest succeeding them, our In-dians, with few exceptions, after the first excitement, remained in a state of ahosf grfect peace and quiet, and were more t.bau ordinllrily kind end easily controlled. nor about the 3d of October, the news of the fight in which Major Thornbur h was killed, and the maseaere of agent and employ4s ot White Ri>.er, reached n8. Tie day ! |