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Show UTAH AGENCY. No. 177. SALTL AKEC m ,J uly 25,1859. SIR: With the causes which have produced delay in my report, you are well acquainted, and will doubtless make the necessary explana-tions to the department. The incidents of the service connected with the agency, so far aa it has been under my charge, have principally been communicated to you heretofore, and I need not allude to them again in detail. The bands who abandoned the Spanish Fork reservation in the month of September last, returned to that place again about the middle of April. The sight of their familiar haunts brought the misfortunes connected with their flight fresh to their minds, and caused them to give way for a time to the most woeful lamentations. Previous to their arrival there were no Indians on the reservation, and all labor had consequently to be performed by white employ6s ; and even after their return, it was nearly two weeks before we could get them to settle down and turn their attention to labor. This fact, with the extreme lateness of the spring, accounts for the necessity of having to retain a considerable number of the white employ6s during the entire season. There are in cultivation on that reservation this season about 360 acres of land, to wit: 300 acres wheat, 15 acres corn, 20 acres oats, 10 acres potatoes, 8 acres squash, 5 acres melons, and 2 acres turnips and beets; which will yield at least a good averagecrop, and may besafely estimated a t Wheat, 6,000 bushels, worth $2 ..................................... $12,000 Corn, 300 bushels, worth $2 ....................................... 600 Oats, 600 bushels, worth $2.. ....................................... 1,200 Potatoes, 2,000 bushels, worth $1 50 .............................. 3,000 Squashes, beets, turnips, and all other vegetables. ............. 300 - 17,100 To this add- Thirty tons of hay, cut and stacked ................................. 300 Straw and corn-fodder will be worth ............................... 600 18,000 The cost of producing this crop, including the amount of rain on hand last fall, and all other incidental expenses for hire and subsistence of elnploy6s and Indians, will not reach. .................................................. $6,000 To this amount addprobable expenses that may yet accrue in harvesting ..................................... -2,500 8,500 - Will leave a balance of ...................................... 9,500 -- |
