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Show » - iui < - . - . . - • . - - » _ l • . . . . . . , _ . A 0 INDIANS VEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. uiirolloclod Indians to some other region Mian it would be I hose who have already made some progress in preparing for themselves homes on the Hvo reservations. Still the Indians on the reservations are intelligent, manageable men, and it is believed that it could be shown to them to be, much to their advantage to go elsewhere. On the Malheur reservation to the north there are already about 501) Indians. Tho reservation is said to include some very valuable lands and if this is true, I have no doubt, but that all of the Pah-Utes or Pa' ivi-o-lsos could be induced to go north and settle on this reservation with the Indians already there. The Uintah Valley, which has been set apart for a reservation, is a rich and valuable district of country, well watered, with good agricultural lands, abundance of pasture lands, and good timber. At the agency there is a grist-mill, saw-mill, and shingle-machine. The Indians now belonging to this reservation number oot.i. They are only nominally there, however, as they do not, remain on the reservation but a part, of the year, and cannot remain there unless they are fed or enabled to raise food for themselves, for hunting'on the, reservation is destroyed, and they .are compelled to go elsewhere to obtain a subsistence. There would be no dilliculty in keeping them there if they could be set to work. West of Salt Lake City there are 1(!0 Indians known as Go-si Utes, who say they will go wherever the President directs, but they woultt prefer to go to Uintah. At present they are driven here and there front time, to lime, and are anxious to get land and have a permanent title to it. Question. Do they depend on the chase for a living? Major POWELL. Not to any great extent. They kill a few rabbits, collect seeds and nuts, beg from while men, and pilfer a little, but they cultivate the land to a greater extent than any other Indians in all the country under consideration. 'fo the south of Salt Lake City, iu the vicinity of Pillmorc, there is a small tribe of Indians know as Pah-vants. These are in much the same condition as the, Go-si Utes, and while they would rather have a reservation somewhere near Fillmore, their chief, Ka-nosli, says if the President, insists upon it, he will go to Uintah. This will make about 1,200 Indians already on the reservation at Uintah or willing to go there. 1 come next to speak of the Utes of Western Colorado. In 1SG3 a tic: ty was made with them, or rather that part of them who inhabit the country to the north. In 1S0S another treaty was made with the Uti s of Southern Colorado. Some of the Indians who took part in the tie; ty of 180,'i were present, at the making of this last treaty in. 1S0S, and the provisions of the first treaty were re-aliirmcd. Uy this treaty tin Indians of Western Colorado were given a reservation embracing al out 13,000,000 acres of land. Within that territory gold and silver have been discovered in many places, and much coal; 1 think the best, most abundant, and most easily accessible to the mines of any coal west of the one hundredth meridian. There is some line timber, abuu-dan pasture lands, and some agricultural lands. Since the treaty of ISO was made a number of miners have entered the reservation and luc'a'ed claims, and an agreement has been made this past year .with thcsi Indians, through Mr. Brunot, who was sent to them as a special eoinii isMoner, by which they yield about 1,000,000 acres of this laud, if the b. rg.Tin is ratified by Congress. I h.vc reason to believe that next summer there will be a great increase iu the number of miners prospecting on this reservation, and I INDIANS v.i:- r • > -_;; ,. fear that it will be impovil.). >.. -,.,,-, , great an extent of lenit..;;.. ;• ,'...,.,„ expense, to tin'1 (iuveriiin.-ii i ,...... .., , and these Indians ha\r n., .!. • -» <„. .., been thoroughly whip|»-.| >,•. • . « , . .. ing been engaged in any ;.r. .' v ,.. the Government. They ;»:»«. j ? „.,. „ their country. Question, Are they IMIIIM;! It,?,,., * Major POWELL. Ih.-;. ..-:. •, ,. . There are a number uf pi. •. •• •„. Mexico, others to tlit- «\i«l • ' i .. ... , 1S0S, made with lhe>e Imli ..:• ., ..- after be yielded by the Iml •••» v fourths of the adult iii.ile P . . . and in the bargain made \> '' •,,«.. ,. proportion to sign lite agii. ..; .. l i o n I H o l i e r t l i . l t a l l t i n " v mcut. The number Mguwi.,' it •> ~< '. these. Indians, more or h •>•, I :'..•< '• entire year w Hit ihem .0 ••' with those at the um 111 it. > southern Indians u Im M..'I. •! l> - 1 - • Taking into cousiileratiiiti it," »••• ment as an indiealion ol lb'* linSi.ni* ledge of those living to tin- le-tib, I ••' than sixteen hundred or sevenlixii lim altogether. There is an agency on the H-M-IA .V but where this is situated ihe rmiiiii' thousand feet above the .«•• i and hem cessful farming. Atom' time I ihoiig I have heretofore liicntioncl as those ervation, could be consolidated with speak the same language, are iuterma them generally; but I doubt whether number of Indians who are ill such an may be entertained of their niakir; lngalls and myself have also taken in removing those Indians of Colorado ' of this reservation, that is, the Gram1 Indians, to Uintah. It would iu the the. valley of the Uintah is better adapi of the country now occupied by these ' farmers they'must be taken from the treaty of l.SC'5 and the treaty of lSliS. them'this past year by Mr. Prunot n treaties, stand in the way of such a i sire to move and do not desire to culti let them alone at present. Still, I thiol bleto protect them iu their rights urn thirteen million acres of land, and e\ am inclined to think it would not be enter that region of country they wi, live by hunting, and as long as that i never desire to cultivate the soil, an • mviBR(*ii»m nt)u „ imp.W,.-T,O, ','' J> SjP"' SW -I1 ^' w..".l»wi.'" J.MWI.WII.IBIW.J'. •!. Ill U'.MI . . . iiim***wwm*V.i +*< lWttr**rXK*X^~Xr~'<'**mrr »jw.i^r»iracn3CT»?«^KlS' |
