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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. I individual exceptions. How cruel that the white man should ever "put the bottle to the mouth of the Indian." ~- Respectfully, yours, GIDEON H. PONCE. Y - No. 52. KWPONAA,u gust 21,1851. In&n agent. The school under my care has during the last year numbered, daily at-. tendance, seven; number enrolled, twenty-one. The reasons why the. number has not been greater are the same as those mentioned heretofore. What influence the late treaty may have upon them remains to be seen. That the present system of education is entirely insufficient, either to meet the wants of the Indians or give satisfaction to those engaged for their welfare, is perfectly obvious. I would recommend, therefore, that it be abandoned as soon as possible, and a more efficient system adopted. Yours, respectfully, S. M. COOK. No. 53. FORTL ARAMIES,e ptember 21,1861. Hon. L. LEA, Com~m'ssioner Indhn Afairs. DEAR SIR: In obedience to the orders of your departn~ent I proceeded to the Territory of Utah, and reported myself to his excellency, Governor Young, ex officio superintendent of Indian affairs for thatTerritory, on the 9th day of August. On my route to Utah I passed many trains of emigrants, some for Ore-gon, some for California, but mostly forUtah. I found many of them in great distress, from depredations and robberies committed by the Indians;, some were robbed of all their provisions, and even of the clothing on their backs; many had their stock stolen, &c. These depredations, so freqnently occurring, compelled them to collect together so many teams, in order to have a force sufficient to defend them-selves, that they were unable to get grasli for their cattle; they could not let them go out of their sight to graze for fear of having them stolen by the Indians, but kept them in cot~ala t night, the Indians being constantly hovering about them. Consequently their teams were daily giving out, and the road mas strewn with the dead. Wagons and other property de-- stroyed to the great injury of the emigrants. The Indians who reside about and below Fort i.,aramie were thought t+ be the principal aggressors; the Crows occasionally. The emigrants not being able to distinguish one tribe from another, were equally fea~ful when they arrived in the territory of the Shoghonees, or. Snakes, whose country embraces aportion of Oregon Territory, a portion |
