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Show Moapa 99 the Moapits to Walker River and Pyramid Lake reservations in order to combine them with the Northern Paiutes.22 This was at best a stop-gap solution, because it did nothing to provide for the vast majority of Nuwuvi still living off the reservation. It is doubtful that even those living at Moapa would have agreed to such a move without use of force. Conditions got so bad on the reservation that hardly any Indians were living there. A local farmer, Isaac Farmington, reported that because no one was there to prevent it, whites had been stealing from the reservation. They particularly had been stealing the reservation cattle. He expressed hope that authorities would look into the situation "for the Indian service of southeast Nevada is a robbery, a disgrace to church and state, and an imposition of the vilest sort upon the Indians." He emphasized that there was not an Indian on the reservation, that the agent had not been there for nearly two years, and that there was no one in charge who had any control over the Indians.23 A former employee wrote later in 1877 that "Mr. Barnes had so utterly and shamefully neglected the Indians on the Moapa Reserve in the Muddy Valley for the last two years that the very name of the Agency has become a bye word [sic] and a reproach." 2i The only supervision at Moapa during this period of time was from a farmer-in-charge, and even this supervision was not always present. The farmer usually was involved in conflicts over which white settlers were going to have use of the reservation stock. After Benjamin Holland, the reservation farmer, was shot and killed by four white men in an incident probably related to the cattle stealing, another employee, Robert Logan, put himself in charge without authorization. Barnes ended Logan's "self constituted superinten-dency" by driving him from the reservation and by having him arrested for cattle stealing.20 In 1879 the government appointed a new farmer-in-charge, W. R. Bradfute. Upon arriving he reported that the farmland was in poor condition because of flooding from irrigation ditches which had become clogged with vegetation. There were no crops being raised on the land. The reservation buildings were in ruins, the farming tools were worthless, and only a few Indians were living on the reservation.26 The continuing problems at Moapa finally led the |