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Show of certain legislative grants as herd grounds. I can learn of no effort having been made to locate any portion of this tribe. This is to me surprising, as they have frequently solicitedme to select some suitable place to enable them to raise wheat and corn. It was my intention to visit Weber and Cache valleys with this object in ~iew. Several events, however, which have lately transpired, render this impossible this season. There is no tribe of Indians in the Territory with whom I have any acquaintance that have been so much discommoded by the introduction of a white population as the Sho-sho-nes. For the past few years they have been compelled to live in the mountains, (as the game has all been driven off the lowlands,) where thesnow frequently falls to such depths as to be destructive to man and beast. But not-withstanding all the disadvantages under which they labor from the introduction of a white :opulace, I cannot learn that they have ever molested any of our citizens, but, on the contrary, have always been friendly. About the 22d day of December last, I was visited at Camp Scott, by White-eye and San-pitch, Utah chiefs, with several oftheir bands. They were destitute of provicions and almost in a starving condition, while it was not in my power to procure provisions for them. I was assured by Agent Hurt that they had always been peaceably disposed towards the whites. After making them some presents I dismissed them, and they returned to their camp on Henry's fork. These Indi-ans belong to one of the principal tribes of this Territory. There is but one other large tribe, (the Snakes,) as I am informed. Both the principal tribes are, of course, divided into a great number of small bands, but all submit to the authoritv of one or the other of the chiefs'of their respective tribes. The beat land belonnincc to the Utahs is situated in Utah vallev. I which is well watered boy Gmerous small streams. All the land thii is susceptible of cultivation is occupied, and most of it is now being farmed. There are eight towns in this valley, with populations rang-ing from three hundred to four thousand souls. It was once the favorite hunting ground of the Utahs, but civilization has driven the game from the valleys; there remains, however, an abundance of fish in all the streams. Much has been done and is doing for this tribe, (the Utahs.) Three years ago Agent Hurt opened up two farms for , them on land claimed by them, one on Spanish Fork creek, in Utah county, the other on Salt creek, in Sanpete valley, one hundred and seventy miles south of this city. I visited Spanish Fork farm in June last, and, together with ex-Agent Armstrong and Thomas J. Hurt, took a list of the government property on the farm. There is quite a discrepancy in relation to the extent of this reser-vation between the agent who commenced it and the authorities of Spanish Fork City. Upon my first visit to the farm Agent Hurt had not returned to it. Not knowing the quantity of land he intended to include in the reservation, I marked some natural boundaries myself. Upon tbe return of Agent Hurt he assured me that the points I had designated were the ones he always intended as the boundaries of the reservation. In regard to the reservation I had a personal interview with the |