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Show 366 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. as blankets, various kinds of clothing, and ammunition : the last was not dealt out indiscriminately. To some of the bands I have given frequent material aid in flour, beef, &c., especially to those who have been forced to give up to whites the valleys which furnished them with subsistence. About five bands of the Sho-sho-nee are severe sufferers by the influx of whites ; those who inhabited Great Salt Lake, Weber, Bear, I Cache, and Malad valleys, extending eighty miles north. These val-leys, which, in their natural state, furnished the Indians much sub-sistence, are now entirely occupied by permanent inhabitants. Game in this country must become extinct when the valleys adapted to farming purposes are occupied by white men, which is already the case, with fbw exceptions : so much so, that it will be difficult, even now, to procure an advantageous location for ? reservation for the Sho-sho-ne bands above alluded to, without paying for more or less improvements. With the exception of the Uinta and E ~ GM ountain Utes, the coun-trv of the Utahs is fast fillinz UD with settlers. The government has, however, made three eligiblev~nhianfa rms in the country claimed by the Utes. The Uinta Utes, the band at Spanish Fork, the one at San Pete, and the Pah-Vants, at Corn creek, have received much more assistance heretofore than all the other Indians in the Territory ; and, unless I am much deceived, these same Indians have been guilty of more depredations than any others in the Territo?~. It is gratifying, however, to be justified in saying that these Indlans have done better this season than ever heretofore, and they promise falr for the future. I am endeavoring to have them permanently located on the several farms : and. until this is accomnlished. no salutary- imp- rovement can be expectkd intheir habits and c&dition. The bands of Pah-Utes, in the southern portion of the Territory, are extremely destitute; the country they inhabit is almost a con-tinuous desert. This is especially the case with those bands south of Cedar city, and which constitute by far the largest portion of them. Almost every band yearly cultivates small patches of wheat, corn, beans, &c., along the banks of the streams. The small expenditure I made the last year amon-g the southern Pah-Utes has had a salutary tendency. I saw many of those Indians last spring, and it was my intention to send an agent to remain among them for some time. This, hereto-fore, has not been possible ; but I will instruct Agent Humphreys to start for that quarter in a few weeks, to visit all the bands, if practi-cable, with instructions to ascertain their true condition, and the geographical character of the country they inhabit. An intelligent gentleman, who was guide to the first emigrant com-pany which passed through the southern part of the Territory to Cali-fornia, twelve years ago, informs me that he then saw wheat and corn-fields, with at least six acres in each, successfully cultivated by those southern Pah-Utes, and that his company would have fared badly but for the wheat, corn, peas, and beans purchased by them from the Indians. It is to be regretted that this condition of things has not been con- |