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Show 200 BEPOBT OF THE knowledged the young ones had been stealing, but he would make them quit it. I then proposed that they give up the horses they had stolen, but I could not prevail on them to do that. I then proposed buying their horses, but only succeeded in getting two, for which I had to pay pretty high. I lectured them severely on the course they had been pursuing, and they appeared to feel it smartly, and promised to quit stealing and go south to hunt. We met another band of thirty or forty at the sink of Deep Creek, who said they had been to the settlements, and appeared very peaceable and quiet. We gave them some presents and passed on. We returned to this city on the 22d day of August, and, as you are aware, were visited on the 24th by a band of the Shoshonees, or Snakes proper, under a chief by the name of Ti-ba-bo-en-dwart-sa, (white man's friend,) numbering in all about three hundred, who had come to this place, according to pre-vious arrangements with the Utahs, for the purpose of holding a treaty with them. And in compliance with your instructions I se-lected camping ground, and supplied them with provisions, fuel, and aome hay for their horses. In a few days they were joined by the Utahs and Cuniumhahs, making in all about five hundred souls ; and as my expenditures in presents and provisions to them were larger than may be anticipated, it may be necessary to state the rea-sons which induced me to make them. I t was well understood among the Indians of this Territory, as early as last spring, that large ap-propriations had been made by Congress for the purpose of making presents to and treaties with them. I am not prepared to say how they came in possession of these facts, hut they had been looking for something to be done in this way all summer. I perceived that their expectations were up, and that there was no way to avoid making these presents without serions disappointment. The season was pes-sing away and the Indians were anxious to know why these presents did not come. The Snakes complained that they had permitted the white people to make roads through all their lands and travel upon em in safety, use the grass and drink the water, and had never received anything for it, all though the tribes around them had been getting presents. Under these circumstances, I saw no way to retain their confidence but to meet these expectations. And as they have succeeded in making peace among themselves, and renewed their pledges of friendship to the whites, we have reason to hope that har-mony will prevail for a season. Early last spring I was induced to think that some of the Utahs and Poh-bantes could be taught to farm and to appreciate the advant-ages of agriculture. I, therefore, had land marked off for them, and designated suitable persons to instruct them how to work. Mr. Jere miah Hatch, of Nephi, in his report of June last, sent in the names of about thirty who had set in to work ; but many of them were des-titute of anything to subsist upon, and hunger had forced them to leave the farm and go to the mountains to hunt, or to the creeks to fish. Owing to the great blight, in consequence of the grasshoppers, our farms have produced but little to show for the amount of labor be-stowed upon them. The accounts of Messrs. Hatch, McEwen, and Boyce have been |