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Show amount reported, $11,300, is very moderate, and it is confidently expected that Coneress will furnish the department with the means to remove this re-proach. -It also appears probable 'that, with a small outlay, the schools among the Catholic Mission Indians may be revived and put into successful operation again. The anperintendent recommends that in case it shall be determined to remove the Indians from Smith river to Round valley, a special appropriation of $5,000 he made for the purpose, and that measures may be taken to place in market the reservations at Nome Lackee and Mendocino, with the jmprovements at the latter place and at Smith river. Considering the number of Indians still in California, the general quiet pre-vailing, and the incalculable wealtb which has accrued to the nation from the lands taken from these Indians by sheer force and without any permanent stipulations for their relief or improvement, the amount of money annually ex-pended for their benefit is very small, and a reasonable increase is confidently expected whenever the subject shall he fairly laid before Congress. ARIZONA. Although we have as yet no annual report from the superintendent of Arizona, the mails being very. irregular and long in transmission, yet, as the monthly reports have been promptly forwarded, we are able to present a fair view of the condition of Indian affairs tberein. The officers in charge have shown .m. eat iurereir in the work, and appear to hnrc lnlmred ~Tithfull~ufoILr I. bcnetit 01' thc I t~*i inna~nd, their v~luol~l~e.u ygestionsh ave been from tin~cto time laid Leiire the deoartment and transmittea to Conmess. It was hoped that the meaere nppr~jl~'riittiobui fhvno mode for drizonavwould be no far i;cn.adcrl rltnt nurnrof ban pldl83 s~lgg~.steraln d nppruved for the inrproven~cnto f the In~liunai l~iqllth u cnrricrl into v&ct, esocciallv becaueo tbe Trtdinns tlternael\'c,s were s.rll di>i~d~ed to avail themselves08 the bknefits proposed; but these hopes were disappoked. There is no superintendency where a ressonahle appropriation judiciously ex-pended will confer a lasting benefit upon more Indians-there are nearly 40,000 of them-and relieve more whites of apprehended trouble, than in Arizona. Plans to colonize the tribes known as the river Indians, the Yavapais, Huala-pais, kc., upon a reservation on the Colorado river set apart for them by Con-gress two years ago, have been considered and presented to the department, but for want of necessary funds, nothing of a permanent character has been done. Nevertheless, the superintendent and Agent Feudge, who was more directly in charge of the enterprise, succeeded in inducing a considerable number of the Dlohaves, and of the tribes above named, to commence planting. By the August report it appeared that these tribes, many of the members of which had been diaposed to hostility, were peacefully at work, and that for the first time in months trains were moving between the river and Prescott, the capital of the Territory, without interruption. The first Crops planted by the Indians were swept away by aflood in the river, and another rise bad also occurred, the &ect being to so far saturate the ground as to assure the Indians of a successful crop. Much trouble bas been encountered with the Chemihuives, who are represented as being at war with most of the other tribes. They reside for the moat part in Calii$mia, and some attempts have been made at a"conference vith the suier-inteudent for Caliiornia, in order to devise and unite in recommending measures far quieting this tribe. - In regard to the Xoquia, the interesting village Indiana living in the north-eastern part of Arizona, near the borders of New Nexico, and very similar in character to the Pueblos of that Territory, hut little is known in addition to that presented in former reoorts. Thev are. however.. n&e aceahle and self-sustainin"n.. 'costing the governmeit nothing except in cases of extreme necessity resulting from failure of crops. |
