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Show Chapter VIII. RESERVATIONS Dr. Hurt's Efforts. A more purposeful and constructive policy toward the Utah Indians than heretofore evidenced, is noticeable in the progress of the farms initiated by Agent Garland Hurt in 1856, as recorded. In the Indian affairs report of that year occurs again the old story of trials and troubles, the misery of the Indians, and the consequent attaoka on emigrant trains. After a very severe winter, the Indians presented a sad state of destitution, their poverty and distress causing them to commit depredations on'the emigrants. It was under this urgency that Dr. Hurt undertook the establishment of farms. His explanation of thia undertaking shows the continued indifference manifested towards the Indians, and his apologetic attitude shows the disadvantage under whloh he was striving in working for a government reluctant to aid. He wrote in part: 1 See Chapter VI, p. |
