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Show 364 UTAH SUPEBINTENDENCY. into Deep Creek valley is in progress. I have had intercourse with every tribe and band of Sho-sho-nes in the Territory, and have endeav-ored to learn from them their number. And, in my opinion, they number about forty-five hundred. They occupy about one-third of the Territory, the northeast portion. UTAH OR UTE. The Utah, Pah-vant, and Pey-nte, constitute the second division of the Indians. Although these are designated by several different names, yet they all emanate from onenation or tribe, and speak the same language. The Utes are subdivided into several tribes and many bands. Those known as Uinta-ntes, claim Uinta valley and the country along Green river. A portion of these have lived, part of last and this summer, at the Spanish Fork Indian reservation. This tribe is governed by four chiefs, and numbers about one 4 thousand. There is a band of Utes, with several chiefs, numbering ahout five hundred, who, in pursuance with my request, mostly located last May on the Spanish Fork reservation, where it is presumed they will con-tinue. Another bandof about eighty are living on the San-Pete Indian farm. ! These are Ute Indians, but are a distinct, organized tribe and nnm- 1 ber about scvcn hundred. They obey and are controlled by one prin-cipal, and several sub-chiefs. About half of them have their home on the "Corn Creek" Indian farm. The other wing of the tribe lives along the "Sevier lake" and surrounding country, in the notheast extremity of Fillmore valley, and about fifty miles from Fillmore city. There are seemingly two distinct, organized divisions of Pey-Ute Indians. One division inhabit the Humboldt, north, from about fifty miles west of Strong Point to the California line, and northwest to the Oregon line. These are estimated to number about six thousand, by Agent Dodge. For further particulars, I refer you to the accompanying report from Frederick Dodge, Esq., Indian agent in Carson valley. There is a tribe of Indians who dwell along the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, from Honey lake to one of the forks of Walker's river : these are called W%sho, and are supposed to number from five to eight hundred. I am not certain whether or not they belong to the Ute division. The ten bands (Ute Indians) inhabiting the southern portion of the Territory are scattered along the California road, generally adjacent to the settlements, from Beaver valley, along the Santa Clara, Virgin, Los Vegos, and Muddy rivers, to the California line rtpd New Mexico. These bands number about two thousand and two hundred. I am credibly informed that there are large numbers of Ute Indians roaming at and in the neighborhood of the Elk mountains, in the southeast |