Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1884

Excerpts concerning Utah from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs describes costs associated with operating the Indian agency, a lack of game for hunting, trade of guns, ammunition, and alcohol, depredations of timber and other property, enrollment in schools, etc. The Colorado agent submits a report regarding the Southern Utes. Agent J.F. Gardner reports that the agency's buildings are in poor condition, no crimes were committed during the year, and that flooding and a harsh winter caused stock raising and agriculture to become very difficult