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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 129 I have in the employ of the Indian department only one person, Luke Mumy, as interpreter, a mtive of St. Louis county, State of Missouri, aged 51 years, at a salary of $500 per annum, who was appointed on the 15th of August, 1861. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, WILLIAM F. M. ARNY, United States Indian Agnat. JAMLE. CSO LI.INSE, sq., S~pm~ntendenInt dian Afuit-6, Santa Fi; New Mmico. UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. No. 49. OFFICEO F THE SUPERINTENDEONRT I NDIAAFNFA IRS, Utah Territory, Jene 30, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a return of the property, accounts current, abstracts of expenditures, and vouchers for the Indian service connected with this superintendency for the quarters endingMarch 31 and June 30, 1861. I n closinn mv connexion with the service as its .ori nci.na l officer in this Territorv. <. I suhmit7his my annual report. As stated in a previous re ort I arrived here on the 11th day of November, 1860. The time for active Jarding operations had expired, and winter in this region had set in. The farms at the San Pete, Corn Creek, Deep Creek, and Ruby Valley reserves had bcen abandoned by my predecessor and gone to ruin; and the various tribes attached thereto had wandered off and returned to their mountain haunts. Scarcely a vestige of the improvements once existing on the mveral reserves was visible; and to do anything of value at farming on them was, at that season of the year, impracticable.. The Indians, except those in charge of Agent Humphreys, at the Spanish Fork reserve, who had a supply of wheat raised there by his industry, were in a state of nakedness and starvation, destitute of shelter, and dying of want; and as nothing could he done on the farms, and assurances having been given me by the Secretary of the .Interior and his excellency the President, in person, that I should he supplied with means six months in advance, according to my estimates furnished, I appropriated all the means at mv command towards relievinn their immediate weraonal necessities, ~liveftinga lnr:'~ ponin~t the rilltds desrgnvd tjr other tlrts to tlria pnnirttlar purpose, and prorecd~~mdi rl~o~dltt.1 ny to furninl~th e nervsary. et~.p.y lieaa nd make ~is6;ibutions. - Owing to a previous state of facts, known to the department, the Indians had lost confidence in the government and people of the United States, had become vicious and s iteful; emigrants had been robbed, our countrywomen outraged; families slang$ t ered, mothers and their little children carried away in captivity, and even the express riders and carriers of the United States mails had been attacked and murdered. Concerning the causes which led to this deplorable state of &airs, it does not become me to sneak: suffice it, that such was the state of furtr whn~T came to thir Territory in rlB;ryt. of the Indian senice. On thtw ar-rot~ ntsth c white inhnhitnrrts of rhv l'vrritory had h e n suhj~rtntlo inssltd, tl~efta, threats, intrusions,and other outrages from them, and thesecitizens wereurgent in appeals for the interference and protection of the government. I immediately after my arrival despatched messengem among the different bands, and invited them to meet me in council at the most practicable points; and having mpt andmade distribntions'amongst those nearest this city, I arranged for an expedition among the Goshn-Utes, Pah-Vantes, Shoshonees, Tosawitchee, and others along the California mail road for .a distance of four hundred miles west of this city. No agents being in the Territory except W. H. Rogers, esq., 9 1 |
