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Show Superintendent Forney's observations, plans and activities show that at last reservations, the only alleviation of the unfortunate state of Indian affairs in Utah, had become an active policy of the government in that Territory as well as elsewhere. But_ this polioy should have begun earlier. It came too late to serve the Indians adequately, and to make conditions in Utah seoure and peaoeful. Also the appropriations should have been more liberal. Deterrents to progress. Superintendent Forney continued the plea for a liberal appropriation; more Indians wished work than he had supplies for. Though several new farms were openSd in different localities by the year 1359, with Shoshones and Utahs both at work, they were not extensive enough to ohange the old recurrent troubles of distress among the Indians with consequent 1 depredations upon emigrants. Crop failures, insect. pests, and unusually severe winters, added to their orowding out by an ever increasing population, reduoed the Indians in Utah to a state of 1 Indian Affairs Report, 1859, pp. 33, 369. |