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Show IJTAFI SUPERINTENDENCY. 137 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY, October 1, 1861. SIR: In compliance with your request, received on the 27th ultimo, (through Mr. Atwood,) I proceeded immediately to the Corn Creek Indian reservation, in Millard county, in this Territory, and examined the Indian farm on said reservation. The farm, however, is not enclosed with a fence, as I had previously sup-posed. The Indians have been compelled to herd their stock, to keep it, as well as many of the horses and cattle belonging to the whites, running in that vicinity, from destroying their cror; in, which case they have been known to shoot arrows, wounding some an kllhng others of those belonging to the 1 whites. There are no improvements upon the farm whatever, further than ploughing, except a small double log cabin, very much out of repair. The facilities, how-ever, for fencing are very good, as good cedar timber can be procured at a dis-tance of from threc to four miles. This could be accomplished at a cost of about two dollars per rod. In my opinion, the amount of land that would be requisite, and should be fenced, for the demands of the Indians there, would not exceed one hundred acres. ( There are two yoke of oxen, belonging to the government, now in the hands of Mr. Peter Robinson, who is acting temporary agent of this farm. With the assistance of these, together with some nine or ten old spadcs and shovels, they have managed to raise about two hundred bushels of wheat, and two hundred and fifty bushels of corn the present year, without any further assistance on the part of the government. These Indians, the Pah-Utes, are very industrious, and solicit the aid of the government, in the strongest terms, in their behalf. They complain most bitterly of your predecessors holding out inducements, and making them many promises which they never fulfilled. If any Indians are entitled to and merit the aid of the govrmment, they ' are these. - I was further informed that M+jor Humphreys had taken away many of the I implements, such as ploughs, hoes, harrows, and wagons, from this as well as the San Pete Indian reservation, and disposed of them. This has quite dis-couraged the poor Indians, which causes them to ask if the great father has thrown them away. Kanosh, their chief, together with some of his men, have now gone to the Navnjoes, on a trading expedition, leaving others of his band to thresh and save their grain. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, DYMAN S. WOOD. 3fujor H. NARTIN, Superintendent of Indian Affaiw, Utah Territory. The San Pete Indian farm I have been unable to visit, hut hare information through Mr. Peter Boyce, a very respectable, and, I learn, n reliable man, who resides near there, that everything there is in a destitute condition. He thinks that about a thousand dollars, judiciously exprncled in agricultural implements and repairs, would put the farm in a condition to be of much benefit to the Indians in that section. He also states that the Indians there are a very peaceable and industrious people, and express a strong desire to do something for themselves in the way of farming, and, he thinks, with proper encouragement on the part of the gov-ernment, they could be made quite comfortable and contented. |