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Show 104 depth of the snow, a small amount of beef purchased in the valley, together with some of our oxen, which were in condition for slaughter after our freighting operations, enabled us to get along with comparative quiet and comfort." Daniel W. Jones (see final portion preceding chapter) soon became involved in arguments with J. J. Critchlow. Jones, in a letter to the Salt Lake Herald, July 2, 1872, accused Critchlow of being the worst of all agents and a cause of the Utes leaving the reservation. Jones asked in his letter for an investigation. The government held none and the Indians soon returned to the reservation from Sanpete where they had gone for food. Jones had been fired from the agency interpreter's job by the agent. During the incident at Sanpete, Agent Dodge of the Northwest Shoshone Agency also attempted to interfere in the supposed renewal of the threat to the central Utah area. Critchlow not only took control of the Indians under his agency, but he wrote a stern complaint to Commissioner F. A. Walker, who in turn rebuked Agent Dodge who had gravely erred in describing the Utes who were off the reservation foraging for food as a dangerous group. The new agent also showed that he meant to control the activities at the local level and had quarrelsome encounters with both of the post traders who had served him in the first year- George Basor and former agent Pardon Dodds. 4j. J. Critchlow to Commissioner F. G. Walker, September 1, 1872, Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1872, p.673. |
