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Show have learned much from the citizens who have set them a good example teaching them that it is much better to be industrious, and have the arts of civilized life, than to indulge in their old habits of stealing and depending on the chase for a living, and they certainly merit the esteem of all true philanthropists, for the interest they have taken in ameleorating the condition of those Indians. At both places I noticed squaws engaged in washing, ironing, and other house work. About thirty miles south of Wood Creek, the road passes through a very pretty valley, containing about six hundred acres, of very excellent farming land, which is watered by a stream known, as Panther Creek. There also is a number of very large springs, of excellent water, in this valley; which afford sufficient water for irrigation as well as for other purposes. And, at this point I would recommend that a reserve of this entire valley, be made for the use of the Indians, On leaving this valley, for a distance of two hundred miles there is nothing presented to the eye of the traveler but a barren mountain and country covered mostly with green wood, wild sage, and mountain cedars, until he arrives on the Santa Clara river; and even here the farming land is not extensive. I was informed by a citizen of Fort Clara, that about twenty miles wouth east of the fort, there is a small tract of country (not accessibly by any wagon road) of about six hundred acres, of excellent farming land, which would make a farm of sufficient size for the Indians in that section |