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Show 87 James Duane Doty, the Superintendent for Utah, began urging that the Utes be gathered and placed on the Uintah reservation in 1862. In a letter dated July 18, 1863 and addressed to W. P. Dole, Doty said: I can but repeat the recommendations which I have heretofore made, that the Utah bands ought to be collected on the Uintah reservation, and provision made for them as herdsmen. General Conner informs me that some of the troops under his command can be employed (peace being now established with the Shoshones) in settling and protecting them there, and in aiding them in erecting their houses, and making other improvements for permanent homes. In this manner government may soon obtain perfect control over this nation, and with a less expenditure of money than is now required to maintain the very unsatisfactory and imperfect relations existing at present.1 Progress toward the removal of the Utes to Uintah was painfully slow. In the Report of the Secretary of the Interior, December 6, 1864, a glowing and inflated description of the Uintah Reservation is included, followed by this rather leisurely view of events. Many of the Indians exhibit a desire to be placed upon it, and undertake in earnest the pursuit of agriculture. A difficulty presents itself in the want of accurately surveyed lines, so that, by the exclusion of whites from them, the Indians may be left in undisturbed possession, and I recommend that application be made to Congress for an appropriation for fehe purpose of making this survey; but meantime the superintendent has been directed to warn all white settlers ^oty to Dole, July 1863, in RCIA, 1863, pp. 513-514, |