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Show 112 CONCLUSIOH The study of the reports of Indian affaird in Utah from 1848 to 1865 does not lead to happy conclusions concerning the federal Indian policy in that territory. Summing up affairs, what were the conditions, favorable and unforable v A. In Utah? Taking the Indians themselves first, we find that they were nearly all unusually tractable, even docile, attacking the whites only under stress of famine. Their country was a favorable locality in which to deal with them, geographically considered, for it afforded opportunities for agricultural development sufficiently remore from white civilization to admit, of a definite policy of action In their behalf. Why was it then, that five years elapsed from the time i of the establishment of the Utah Superintendency before even \ temporary farms were started for the Indians? Why was it that, even then, the agents had to urge Congress again and again for adequate means to carry on work which, though in line with federal policy elsewhere, was really in Utah Independently initiated by the federal agents? Why, before the Uintah Reservation was finally provided for |