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Show 95 with determination not to return while he is agent.1^ It was difficult to find men of talent and determination to go to so desolate a spot to perform a frustrating task. It seems a very great pity that the government effort was not directed by someone of energy and foresight in 1869, for it was the only year in five that the grasshoppers did not, at least in part, destroy the crops. The plague returned in 1870, causing extensive damage, but not a total loss of the crop. On January 3, 1871, the Deseret Evening News carried an editorial entitled "Bretheren, Don't Kill the Deer," in which the Mormon citizenry were admonished to leave the deer for the starving Indians. In the above letter to E. S. Parker, Colonel Tourtellotte includes a terse comment on the demise of the once-powerful Tumpanuwac Utes: The Tyimpanoge Indians formerly resided at and about Spanish Fort [Fork] reservation, but they are now scattered among other bands, and do not now exist as a separate tribe. Most of these Indians are on the Uintah Valley reservation, and are numbered with the Indians of that agency. -1- 10Tourtellotte to Parker, Septembe^ 20, 1870, in RCIA, 1870, p. 141. 11Ibid., p. 142. |