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Show 101 starvation and distress hitherto unequalled in the reports of the agents. It was a common oirousstance to find Indians frozen to death. In addition to their utter misery their degeneration was rapidly being effeoted by whiskey shops established under the pretense of being 1 " trading posts." Dr. Hurt, whose commission as agent did not expire till August 1859, commented in one of his late reports that " it seems to be a oommon error of those who have undertaken to localize and oivilizs the wild tribes to labor under the impression that time and patience form no part of the system, and are 2 not necessary to its suooess." Dr. Hurt's observation seems to be verified by the faot that it was the presence of the military in Utah rather than the constructive polioy of reservations which was relied upon to check outrages; while the animosity of Mormon and United States officials continued as a i Indian Affairs Reports, 1859, pp. 376- 377; 1860, p. 170; 1861, p. 31. 3 Ibid., 1859, p. 381. |