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Show 560 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. the Commissioner of Indian Affairs two communications from Carson valley, dated June 28 and July 19, giving him information of all matters up to that time. Governed by the opinion and advice of your excellency, as expressed in frequent couversafions, I determined to proceed with the expedition, notwithstanding the various reports which reached this city of the danger and difficulties with wh~chit would he attended. I therefore organized a company of twenty-five men, (the arrangements for this journey heing hurried by the reports of the hostile determination of the Indians,) and left this place on the 12th of May. I did not think it prudent to let another year elapse without doing or attempting to do something to facilitate the travel, ant1 give security to the emigration, who were expected on this route the present year in great numbers, and, if possible, meet the Indians and quiet their feelings of hostility to our people. I believed that the longer they were permitted to indulge in their acts of barbarity, murdering and plundermg our citizens, the greater would he the expense and the greater the acuity of pro-ducing a reconciliation, and giving peace and quiet to the route. I therefore determined, at all hazards, to make the effort, helieving that, if successfU1, it would result in much good to the counT by giving relief and security to the emigration. If unsuccessfU1, I s ould have it in m power to give to the department such information as would enah f e the government to act in future. With these views, believing in the justice and importance of the expedition-believing that it would meet the views and wishes of the department-having received nothing but verbal instructions in regard to my duties, and feeling unuilling to remain idle while there was such important duty to erform-I deter-mined to organize this company, roceed t o!I t e scene of these troubles, to quiet them, if possible, government in posses-sion of such information as would do so. This course I considered due to myself as Indian agent for the Territory-due to the interests of the Territory, and due to the government. In getting up this company I thought it advisable to have a sufficient force for our own protection, as well as to enable us to afford assistance to the several trains which had receded us if necessity should require it, particularly as reports ha$ reached this place of the attacks by the Indians on these trains, some of which were said to have been entirely destroyed. These reports, however, I am pleased to say, were untrue. Little or no difficulty occurred to them on the whole route; and what did occur mas attributed more to their own negligence than to the Indians. I travelled in company with these trains--consisting of stock, generally-sometimes with one and then with another, until I reached Carson valley, all heing in advance of the emigration from the States. I found the Indians on the whole route disposed to he friendly, or at least they professed to be so. Those I met with on this side of the Goose Creek mountains, about one hundred and eighty miles from this place, claimed to he of the Shoshonie tribe, and belon ed to the hand who reside in the neighborhood of Box Elder, some ei$ty miles north of this place. They professed to he on a hunting excursion, and on a |