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Show 132 UTAH SUPERCJTENDENCY. to suggest that the amount expended in cultivating cereals is disproportionate to what should be invested in raising cattle, and supplying clothing. These are unquestionably the poorest Indians on the continent. There is no game to subsist them, and from the nature of the country there never can be. Animals whose natuye it is to inhabit forests will not abide in the beds of saler-atus and on the barren rocks and dismal wastes of this insalubrious clime. If the system of cultivating grain he so modified as to substitute in part the rais-ing of cattle for the subsistence of the Indians, it will operate beneficially in v a rious respects. The Indian is by nature a herdsman, and he will readily fall in with the idea of taking care of cattle in preference to pelforming the more civ-ilized labor of the farm. Besides, it is their nature to need meat. When fed on flour without meat for any length of time, they become diseased, and a change from that to meat will soon restore them to their wonted health. Owing to the d5culty of getting beef, I have tried to substitute the use of bacon. During last winter starvation compelled many of them to cat it, hut some had to be sup-plied with beef. If four or five thousand dollars were invested in yearling heifers, and ropor care were taken of them on the different reserves, beneficial results waul$ soon follow. The plan of making up the goods designed to clothe them into garments, such as are worn by white persons, male and female, oper-ates finely, and cannot he too strongly recommended. They are well pleased at being dressed like citizens, and it tends to make them more cleanly and care-ful of their person and their clothing, and the cost of making is saved by the less quantity necessary to he given. It also has the effect of preventing them from trading off their garments, which is invariably practiced when the raw ma-terial is given them. The destitution of these Indians and the excessive severitv of the &try seasons cause much sickness, especially inflammatory a d pulmi-nary diseases, among them. Great mffering and many deaths transpire, which might he mitigated, and per-haps prevented, by proper medical treatment. Syphilis prevails to a fearfill extent among the Pah-vants and Pi-utes, which it is said they contract among the Na- 1 vajoes, with w11om they do much trading. I recommend the appointment of an experienced physician, whose duty it shall be to render medical assistance to all who may need it u,ithin this sl~perintendenoy. Owing to the high price of everything in this remote region, and the laborious, perilous, and self-sacrificing labor of the office attached to the Indian service here, I submit that their com-pensation is inadequate, and recommend that their salaries he increased. The pay of the s~~perintendesnht ould he three thousand dollars, and that of each agent, two thousand dollars. From the best information I can obtain from traders, mountaineers, travellers, and other persons, I presume there are some twenty thousand souls embraced within the jurisdiction of this superintendency. I have, therefore, to submit that an appropriation of forty thousand dollars per annum is quite insufficient for their wants. After deducting salaries of o5cers, their incideutal expenses, pay of farm agents, other employks, and incidental expenditures of the reserve, but little is left for clothing, which is more needed among them than anything else. To put the Ruby Valley reserve in success-ful operation will require- At least.. ................................................ $1,000 00 Deep Oreek or Ibimpah.. ................................... 7,000 00 Corn Creek.. ............................................. 4,000 00 San Pete.. ................................................ 4,000 00 To open a farm on Weher for Little Soldier's Utes. .............. 8,000 00 To open a f a ~mon Green River for Wash-&keg, Snakes.. ....... 10,000 00 Besides what may he necessary to make repairs and carry on the Spanish Fork and CaraonValley farms, whichmay perhaps require 10,000 00 Making in the aggregate.. ............................. .860,000 00 |