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Show UTAH AGENCY. 169 reliable man: and one who would take pains to keep up a peaceable intercourse with those people. They have more at stake than any other body of men in this section. I have known all these men per-sonally for nearly two years, and I believe they have invariably made changes in their employ6s, whenever they thought such a change ne-cessary to harmonize with the Indiang. I do not hesitate, therefore, to say that I will vouch for the kind intentions of all the managers of the mail company during my agency with the Gila Indians. A few Pueblo or tame Apaches live in the immediate vicinity of Tucson, numbering, perhaps, 150 souls. They have no lands, and work in the same manner as, and are upon an equality with the Mexican peons, and the only trouble with them is, that upon Mexican feast days they sometimes get intoxicated. They are, however, quite harmless, and whenever any little difficulty does occur, their intimate associa-tions with the Mexican people render it almost impossible to detect or arrest the aggressor; various attempts to do so having been made by me without success. I still have in the employment of the Indian department, John W. Davis, as interpreter, at a salary of $500 per annum. He was bred in Texas. Also C. A. Stevens, formerly from Vermont, blacksmith, shop at Papago village, San Xavier pueblo; also Charles S. Hopkins, formerly of New York, as blacksmith, ap-pointed October 1,1859, for the Pimos and Maricopas, at Casa Blanca; each at a salary of $480 per annum. I beg leave to refer you to the report of Mr. Miller, deputy marshal, who is engaged in taking the census, for the most reliable statistics of their separate as well as their aggregate number. All of which is most res-p ectfully submitted for your favorable con-sideration. I am, dear sir, very respectfully, your obedient and humble servant, JOHN WALKER, Indian Agsnt. JAM& L. COLLINSE, sq., Supt. Indian Afairs, Santa Fb, New Mexico. No. 76. KIRKWOOHDO USEW, ASHINGTDO. NC,. , November 12, 1860. SIR: At your request, I have the honor to submit this my second annual report. From the disturbed state of the Territory, the frequent changes in the superintendency, want of efficiency and steadiness of policy and purpose, and other causes known to the department, I am unable to make as full and satisfactory a report asunder other circum-stances I might be enabled to do. The extent and oooulation of mv azencv is contained in mv reuort a " " " A of September 30, 1654. The Indians under my immediate control (or the most of them) are located upon three reservations, and in the midst of white settlers, viz: Spanish Fork reservation, in Utah county; population 15,000. San |
