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Show 176 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. government furnished, than when the Utes were peace-able and not stealing. The new agent was very empha-tic in his denunciations of former agents. He seemed disposed to change the management, and work for the good of the natives. He asked me to find how the Indians felt and to assist him in every way possible to get things in good order and work to make the Indians happy and contented. I felt much pleasure in the pro-spective work before me. After I had been in the agency a few weeks, the agent started to Salt Lake City to buy winter supplies. He instucted me to come in and bring his team and light wagon. In a few days after his leaving, I got ready to start in. According to previous arrangements, I was to have the right to take in with the agent's team the buck-skins and furs that I had received for saddles. As far as I knew good feeling existed between the agent and my-self. But when I was ready to start in, the clerk then in charge told me that the agent had instructed him not to allow me to haul any of my stuff in his wagon ; that I was to take the wagon in empty. George Basor, the post trader, and a Mr. Morgan, blacksmith, were going in with me. They told me that for some cause the agent had " gone back " on me. ' But I concluded not to " go back" on myself so I got my skins and furs ready. The clerk at first forbade me to load them in, but soon took another notion and assisted me to load the stuff into the wagon. After the agent had left the clerk in charge, busi-ness was carried on in a very bad manner. Quite a crop of potatoes had been raised ; the weather com-menced to grow cold, potatoes freezing. Instead of digging and taking care each day of the potatoes dug, he would have all hands dig all they could and then try to |