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Show COLOBADO BIJPEBIXTEEDENCY. 237 some bmon and flour; many of them have guns and small quantities of ammu-nition. I would not think it advisable at present to give them any ammunition. They are good Indians, not troublesome, and whenever our present diffieultiea are settled then they should receive ammunition. Their clothing should be distributed in the fall. and their orovisions early in the sorine. Thev suffer more in the spring thah any 0therLtimef or food. ' As soon 8s o;r natioda~d i5- culties are settled, I 'would recommend the location and establishment of an Indian farm in some one of the parks near the head of the Bear river, but away from the place of probable travel. There shonld be as few settlements and white men around the 111dian farms as possible, as white men will tamper with the Indiaos. I I would not recommend the commencement of !arming upon an extensive scale, as Dr. Hurt did, hut ouen out a amall farm and seek to teach only a few Indians at once to take ch&ge of the same, n d gradually increase i i as the necessity may' demand. If properly managed it will be of very little expense to the government. The Indians can be made to do most of the work. I would also recommend an early treaty with the Indians for a portion of their lands, commencing somewhere about the Elk Head mountains, on the north side of our Te~~i toIayn,d run the line due south. This would give the United I States the most valuable portioh of their land, that which will be soon settled, and at the same time leave the Indians their best hunting ground. This would give us a part of the valley of Bear river, all of the parks heretofore spoken , of, and their satellites; it would divide the country into about two equal divi-eions. The game of this country is becoming so scarce that the government will have to do something for these Indians at no very distant day, or have serious trouble. Necessity will compel them to rob and steal to live, and soon this conutry will he filled more or less with white inhabitants. Quite a uumher of families have gone over into the middle park to winter. .On reaching Salt Lake City I placed my animals in charge of Gilbert & Gerri~hG, ent~lem ercha~ikso f that place. Mr. Gilbert promised to be respon-sible for them, and had them put into one Bishop Balley's pasture aud a man set to watch them. On the second night they we,! stden, notwithstanding all this precaution. Ot.her animals in the same pasture were left, and oply mine taken. Gilbert left Salt Lake the day before they were stolen, and the men in charge of his business refused to carry out his agreement, but uffered to furnish me money to pay whatever reward might be necessary to secure their return; they did so, also my expenses at the hotel, an account of which is herewith submitted. I offered fifty, one hundred, and two hundred dollars rewar.d, hut no man would go to hunt them. I then offered, at the end of the second day, three hundred dollars revard for the six; this induced two men to go out after them. In about twelve hours they returned with three, the other three they said they could not find. I remained there for nearly two weeks hunting for them, hut 'could not succeed in recovering them, and finally left William Wallace, one of my hands, there to watch, and departed for home. At Salt Lake I discharged all my hands, and made amngemeuts with E. D. Boyd to accompany me back, furnishing him with provisions, &o., and paying his board while waiting for me, an account of all which matters is herewith submitted for your consideration. I returned by the Cherokee trail, and reached Denver on the bat day of Sep-tember, 1861. I would respectfully request the of remaining at Denver until such. time as there may be something for me to do at Breckinridge. There are no Indians about there at present, and will not hi until about midwinter. I have nothing tq give them, and nothing to say to them. I t would seem to me to be the height of folly to gather them around Breckiuridge just at this time when we have nothing to give them. I am ready at any moment to do whatever is |