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Show 97 The Fish Utes have expressed much desire to cultivate land, and they promise to remain in their own country if an employe is sent there to assist them in farming. They do not wish to go upon the Uintah reservation. I do not recommend that a farm be opened for these Indians upon the land they now occupy, and if the reservation prospers I think they can be induced to move upon it.1-' With the crop failures at Uintah, the exiled and dispossessed Utes were frustrated and angry. Nine hundred returned to the area of Sanpete in May, 1872, where they threatened the settlements. The commander of Camp Douglas, Colonel Henry Morrow, went to Springville, as did the newly appointed agent for Uintah, J. J. Critchlow. The Utes were encouraged to return to the agency, and the fact that the army was now involved made them more inclined to do so rather than break the peace. Small depredations were carried out, but not in large enough numbers to be of great importance. There was a great residue of rancor between the Mormons and the. new residents of the Uintah. Daniel W. Jones, a Mormon resident of Salt Lake City, went to the Uintah Agency in 1871 to make saddles. When he arrived at the Agency he was told to leave within three days or be killed. Jones received word from his erstwhile friend Tabby, "You are an old friend, but Mormons Ibid. |
