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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 339 MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII M some Indians living in Thistle Valley, Sanpete County, and a few in Grass Valley, Piute County, were very much opposed to going to live permanently on the Uintah Reservation. Soldiers, Indian Agents and white traders were not esteemed by these In-dians and they so stated. President Brigham Young instructed President Albert K. Thurber and George W. Bean^ to visit these Indians and take them under their watchcare. Some of the Indians in Thistle Valley moved to Grass Valley ; some also came up from Escalante and others came over from Wayne County to live at Greenwich in Grass Valley, Piute County, Utah. After the death of A. K. Thurber and George W. Bean about A. D. 1900, William H. Seegmiller, then president of the Sevier Stake of Zion, in reflect-ing over the situation of the Grass Valley Indians, concluded that in years to come the Indians there might feel that as their friends we had neglected them and did not inform them of the advantages that they might obtain in lands, money, blankets, clothing, farming implements, cattle, horses, educa-tion, etc., should they go to the Uintah Indian Reser-vation. Elder Francis M. Lyman, an Apostle, who had under his care these Indians was consulted about the matter, and of the welfare of these Indians, he consulted with Jos. L. Rawlins, then a Senator from Utah in Congress, 1893 to 1903 who presented the matter to the Committee of Indian affairs in Con-gress, who informed him that the Indians not on the reservation in Utah might still be enrolled with the Uintah Indians and receive the same advantages as those at Uintah had received, an instructed Presi-dent Seegmiller to secure the services of the best |