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Show 234 INDIANS IN THE fsrming land is not extensive. I. was informed by a citizen of Fert Clara that about twenty miles southeast of the fort there is a small tract of country, not accessible by any wagon road, of about six hun-dred acres of excellent farming land, which would make. a farm of sufficient size for the Indians in that section, and can be irrigated by the waters of the Santa Clara river, and ifsuitable for the roduetion of wheat, corn, cotton, rice, and other produce-allof whic has been raised to some considerable extent at the fort. £ The situation of the Indians on this river was truly lamentable, being dmost naked,while want, destitution animisery were plainly depicted in their countenances; produced in a great measure by famine, caused by the destruction of their crops by grasshoppers, during the' past year. And their appeals to me for bread to satisfy the cravings of hunger were such that 1 could not withstand administering to their wants, which I did, as far as circumstances would admit, their only provision being snakes, lizards, and buda of the cottouwood tree. The head chief, Mucco-via, informed me that they had managed to save enough of their crop of last year for seed, and had applied it for that purpose. I visited several of their little farms, or patcbes, and noticed, in several instances, where their corn was two feet high, which had been planted in land prepared with no other implement than a rough stick taken from the cottonwood tree, and hewn with a knife something in the &ape of a spade. One instance I will mention, which shows the in-dustry and perseverance of this band : Oue of the chiefs, Que-o- an, took me to his farm and showed me the main irrigating ditch w t ich was to convey the witer from the river on his laud, which I found to be half a mile long, four feet wide, four feet deep, and had been dug principally through a gravel bed with wooden spades, similar to the one before mentioned, and the dirt thrown out with their hands-the last being performed by the squaws and children, while the men were employed in digging. He also showed me a dam, constructed of logs . and brushwood, which he had made to turn a portion of the water from the river and convey it; to his farm through this ditch ; and I must say, that the labor would do credit to more experienced hands. I saw others of a simibr kind, hut these I have noticed more particu- I larly to show that, with proper assistance from the general goveru-ment, these Indians could, in a few years, be taught the arts of civilized life, and would depend upon their own labor for a snpport ; cand I am well persuaded that this course would be the most economical and best adapted to their wants. I presented the chief and headmen with a few spades,,shovels, and hoes, together with some clothing and . &her articles, which they prized very highly, and the chief said that they would be of more advantage to his band than double the amount in powder, lead, and trinkets. The Piede Indians are divided into numer,ous bands, though small in numbers, and mostly inhabit the extreme southern portion of the Territory, on the Santa Clara and Muddy rivers, and employ much ot their time in farming their small patches of land in their rude man-ner of cultivating the soil. Their numbers have been much diminished of late years by the cruelty practised towards them by the Utahs, in |