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Show 310 UTAH. No. 132. OFFI~ES UPERINTENDENOCP IWDIAN AFPAIRS, Great Salt Lake City, September 12,1857. SIR: Enclosed please find abstract account current and vonchers from 1 to35,inclusive, (also abstract of employ88,)for thecurrentquarter up to this date, as, owing to the stoppage of the mail, I have deemed it best to avail n~yselfo f the opportunity of sending by private conveyance not knowing when I may have another chance. The expenditures, as you will observe by the papers, amount to $6,411 38, for which I have drawn my drafts on the department in favor of Eon. John M. Bernhisel, delegtite to Congress from this Territory. You will also observe that a portion of those expenditures accrued prior to this quarter, which may need a word of explanation. Santa Clara is in Washington county, the extreme southern county of this Territory, and this lebor was commenced and partly performed ; seeds, grain, &c., furnished prior to the time that Major Armstrong visited these parts of the Territory ; hence failed to find its way into his reports, and failed being included in mine, because the accounts and vouchers were not sooner brought in, and hence not settled until recently ; but little has been effected in that part of the Territory at the expense of the government, although much has been done by the citizens in aiding the Indians with tools, teams, and instruction in cultivating the earth. The bands mentioned are parts of the Pied Indians, who are very numerous, but only in part inhabit this Territory. These Indians are more easily induced to labor then any others in the Territory, and many of them are now engaged in the common pursuits of civilized life. Their requirements are constant for wagons, ploughs, spades, hoes, teams, and harness, &c., to enable them to work to advantage. In like manner the Indians in Cache valley have received but little at the expense of the government, although a sore tax upon the people west and along the line of the Cnlifornia and Oregon travel; they continue to make their contributions, aod, I am sorry to add, with considerable loss of life to the travellers. This is what I have always sought by all means in my power to avert ; hut I find it the most dif-ficult of any portion to control. I have for many years succeeded be& ter than this. I learn, by report, that many of the lives of the emi-grants and considerable quantities of property have been taken. Thia 1s principally owing to a company of some three or four hundred re-turning Californians who travelled these roads last spring to the east-ern States, shooting at every Indian they could see-apractice utterly abhorent to all good people, yet, I regret to say, one which has been indulged to a great extent by travellers to and from the eastern States and California; hence the Indians regard all white men alike their enemies, and kill and plunder whenever they can do so with impunity, and often the innocent suffer for the deeds of the guilty. This had always been one of the greatest difficulties that I have had to contend with in the administration of Indian affairs in this Territory. |