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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 199 1 An exploration of Uintah valley confirms the information heretofore given the department of its adaptation to the purposes for which it has been reserved. Settlements of from twenty to fifty families can be formed at diferent places along the Uintah and its tributaries, with small farms of from five to twenty acres each. This division into small settlements, which is recommended, would allow to each separate pasture lands and separate tracts for each band, with natural honnddaries. The streams are numerous and rapid, well supplied with ' fish, and can be employed for irrigation without expensive dams and ditches. It is the best valley for grazing in this Territory, hut its greatest advantage is its remoteness from white settlements, being separated from them by the Uintah mountains on the north, the Wansatch range on the west, and bounded by the deserts of Colorado river on the south and east. Antero, a principal Utah chief from Uintah valley, and his hand of twenty lodges, were last month on a vlliit . of ceremon to the superintendent. In an interview, and in reply to my inqni-ries, he sai $ the valleys of the Uintah and its branches are as good, or better, for cultivation as the valley of Salt lake; that there is plenty of pine and cot-tonwood in the vicinity of the streams, and the best of grass on the hills and in the bottoms ; that his home is on the north fork of UintaJ1, where he has lived i many years, and therels very little snow there. He has fourcows, and one of his hand has eight, ana they have several horses; and he asked that they may I be given more stock-cows, oxen, mares, slieep, and hogs-and that a house may . . 1 be built for him there, where he wishes to permanently reside. He has no doubt many of his hand would soqn follow his example, if they did not at once join I him. He said he was ashsqed to talk with me about settling there with his band, and having a house and more stock, as Dr. Hnrtt and all the agents have heretofore promised him this for years past, but still ha has none ; that he is no beggar, &c. The report of Mr. Amos Reed of a tour of explomtion of Uintah duringthe last and present months is herewith presented, and also an extract from the journal of W. Berthoud, who explored the route from Denver, and located a road through this valley in the year 1861, in which %curate descrip; t t tions of the country are given. The snow on the Wausatch range, and, after its disappea~ance,i ll health and other causes, prevented me from making a per-sonal examination of the valley according to your instructions, but I trust the information now communicated will be satisfactory. I beg leave to adopt the views of the Commissioner contained in'his annual report of last year in regard to "cattle husbandry" by all of the Indians in this Temtory, and hope the system may he commenced $his fa11 in Uintah valley .with the Utahs and with the Shoshones, at such polhts ag may be hereafter . selected. These people are naturally inclined to a pmtoral life, and if they can now receive the aid and encouraxement of government, it is believed the most of the Utahs may be collected and permanently settled either in Uintah valley or the vicinitv of the Colorado. south of this Territory. near the Mo"i aves, as ~ n sus g *e~trdin a fibrnlcr uommu~ricntinnw. lten. n ~nr~t'n~arrvatirn.tnn br mndc ? witho~lr~ nterf*>renow.i th th,. whitc: sctrlrrnt.nri: B I T P H ~ Vf ormecl. 'iV11enevcr rhry are established, a militarv oost noon the resemation- is deemed necessam (ear-risoned by two or more &Apanie's) to maintain order, and to protect the fndians and the officers of government, and the reservation itself, from intrusions by whitle settlers. the agency to that poiit. I feel it to be my duty to again recommend that treaties be entered into with . all of these tribes to extinguish their right of occupancy. Justice and the peace of the country require it, and it seems to he absolutely necessary in order to bring them under the control of government, and to give proper effect to the laws of the Territory, and to those regulating Indian trade and intercourse. -Although the title was obtained by the treaty with Mexioo, these Iudiina were |