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Show e86 INDIANS IR TRS condition, and the want, inti1 within s few years, of the benefits end advahtages to be derived from intercourse with an exemplary white population, their conduct has .been far more, commendable than that of many tribes who have received, and are still receiving liberal ap ropriations. % this connexion,it may not be amiss for me to state that nearly two years have elapsed since Congress appropriated over forty thousand dollars for the express purpose of making treaties, &c., with the Indiana in Utah, that their lands have been traversed by government surveying parties now almost-a year, and still not one .dollar of &hat appropriation has yet been ex ended within this super-intendency, and, for aught I know, is still ?as t in the coffers at Wash-ington. Is this just? Has it any precedent in usa e toward tribes in any other State or Territory? More especially w % en the relative ' conduct, facilities, and advantages of the various tribes are taken into amount.* Dr. Hurt is still absent on his trip to Carson Valley and the neighboring regions, having gone by way of the Humboldt or Mary's river. I have received no communication from him since& departnre, but am informed that he was twentp miles below the bridge over Mary's river on the 6th of June ; that the Indians met with were friendly; that he had made them presents, and that him-self and party were well, and maKing good progress. His absence on official duty will, I presume, satisfactorily account for the nou-trana-mission of his report, since in travelling and camping far from mail routes entirely precludes making up and forwarcling important docu-ments. Your letter of May 19, acknowledging the receipt of my ac-counts, &c., for 4th quarter of 1854, came to hand on the 28th instant. The drought and insects of last summer cut off, in a great measure, the usual supply of weed seeds, and the crops of the Indians engaged in farming, and the severity of the past winter precluded the cus-tomary pursuit of game, which is extremely scarce at best. These circumstances will account for the absolute necessity of furnishing an unusual amount of provisions to the starving red men, who otherwise must have perished through lack of food, and even then many would have died had not the whites voluntarily contributed much larger aggregate amounts of provisions, which haa been invariable the case in all our settlements since they were made. It is obvious that aid to'the Utah Indians should be more liberal, for it is not presumable t- hat- the government expects her citleens to continually austain them by 8onations. Trusting that my report and accompan'ying papers will be found satisfactorv. and in due form. and that mv constant and strenuoua efforts to properly and econ~mically carr; out that pacific policy 8 Governor Young is'misbken in this, ss the records of the Indian Offiw shoa that drafts to theamount of $27,014.80, dram by himself and Agents Hurt and hstmng, hsva been paid out of thb appropistion for Indin purposes in Ubh. |