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Show 103 which he and his employees had to haul by wagon from Salt Lake City- 20 tons of iron and steel for 150 miles over impossible roads. He began his sojourn strenuously. When J. E. Tourtellotte left Utah, no new superintendent for the Territory was named. Governor Woods asked that one be named, but the Office of Indian Affairs failed to respond. Critchlow told the Commissioner that the results produced by former superintendents were not sufficient to warrant the continuance or readoption of the office. The Commissioner must have concurred, because the office was not restored. While it may be idle to speculate, perhaps Critchlow's tasks could have been lessened if there had been a capable officer of the federal government in Salt Lake City. He was a more powerful man in the territory without such an officer, however. In the fall of 1871, Critchlow ran into a series of difficulties; he had to leave part of the important mill machinery in Heber City and part in Strawberry Valley. After traveling to Salt Lake City to purchase beef, he was dismayed to find no one willing to take the government price and deliver the beef to so distant a location that late in the year. The situation during the winter might have been even worse except for the fact that the intense winter, so long the enemy of the starving Utes, for once fi'ame to their aid, "...the game from the mountains, driven into the valley by the extraordinary |