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Show 6* The wuneettled condition of governmental affaire* in tJtah continued to be the reason given by Commissioner Kuiypenny for delay in prosecuting negotiations with the tribes there; another reason aleo wao that the Seaate_ had^ not^ ratif ied treaties with the tribes in hew Mexico which were einilar to those designed by the de-par tuent for Utah. Utah was at that period the abode of more than forty thousand citiaene, and the highway of jtr& vel over the continent, yet the Indiana were supposedly still the owners of the land. The nuuaber of Indian inhabit& nte was ' ' 3 estimated at twelve thousand. 4 I> oat Opportunity. Complicated and unsettled ae were the three cornered relations of Indians, Bonaons, end Aaerlcsna in Utah, the f". ct stands out that the pol- A icy of Co^ ssejf jfjajtj » 4jit © « d « © ^^- aloof one. superintendent Y1 oung aad the federal agents toy their reports again Indian Affaire Report* p. 16. 2 S- sn^ t- a Executive Document © , J} Cong., 1st Sees., vol. 1, Boo. 1, p » 259 ( 690). Ibid. |