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Show Great Salt Lake City March 30, 1852 Sir, Since my report, made to your Excellency, on the 31st of December last, there has nothing occurred of importance in my department. Agreeable to your instructions, in January last, I, in company with Sub-agent , S. B. Rose, visited the Indians north, as far as Box Elder, We found them friendly disposed towards the whites, and in the general, on friendly terms-there had been previously, some little disturbance, but all has quieted down. The information we had received of their having a considerable quantity of American gold, we found to be true- we made every effort to as certain in what manner they came in posession of it. One, who had several pieces, stated, that he had received it two or three years ago, in a horse trade, from an emigrant-others accomited for having this goldin various ways,i but to my mind, not satisfactory. A great portion of this band, was absent on a hunting expedition-we could not see their chief, nor could we get any information which seemed of a character to be relied on. Whether these Indians have participated in the robberies on the California route, or not, is extremely doubtful-I thought some circumstances looked rather suspicious. Yet they profess friendship towards the whites, and many of them had given such evidence of their friendship, as to induce the citizens there, to believe they were sincere. We made every effort to ascertain the true situation of the white females, who were said to be held prisoners, by a band of Indians, in that neighborhood. So far as we could learn |