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Show REPORT OF THE chirge of Agent Labadi, these Indians are also hostile, and constantly engaging in the commission of depredations against the whites. The four hundred above mentioned have, during the past season,under theimmediate supervision of their agent, cultivated some two hundred acres of land, and at last accounts had a prospect of an abundant harvest, the result mainly of their own labor. The Utahs of this superintendency are also divided into three bands, one located in the northeastern part of the Territory, and the other two in the north-western. They are a powerful and warlike race, are expert hunters, and mani-feat but little disposition to abandon their ancient customs and modes of life. A few of them have, however, manifested a disposition to engage in agricultural pursuits. * The Indians known as Pueblos are an agricultural people, possessing many excellent traits of character. They are unwavering in their loyalty and devo-tion to the government, and have proven of inestimable service in protecting the frontier settlements. In my former annual reports I have called attention to the imperative neces- ' sity of concentrating the powerful and warlike Indians of this superintendency upon suitable reservations. I t is now fifteenyears since weacqnired possession of the Territory, and, so far as I can judge, the security and protection afforded by governme,nt to the lives and property of our citizens is but little if any better than at the outset. Hitherto there seems to have beeuno systematic policy pur-sued in the government andcontrol of the Indians. They have been permitted to roam almost at will throughout the Territory, and have engaged in the com-mission of innumerable depredations npou the property, liberty, and lives of the white inhabitants. Doubtless many of their acts of hostility have resulted * from wanton attacks upon them on the part of the whites, hat many more have resulted from the occupation of their country by whites who have driven out the game upon which, to a great extent, they were accustomed to rely for sub-sistance, thus reducing them to want, and impelling them to resort to plunder, and this in its turn leading to measures of retaliation. Occasionally outrages of nnusual enormity are perpetrated, and these are followed by military expedi-tions against the Indians, which usually result in nothing more than the killing or capture of a few Indians, and the destruction of some of their villages, leav-ing the power of the Indians almost unimpaired, and the general insecurity as great as before. Superintendent Steck asserts, and he claims to have reliable auth0rit.y for the statement, that not less than three millions of dollars have been annually ex-pended since our acquisition of the Territory in maintaining its military organ-izations, which, with the exception of repelling the Texas invasion of last year, have done nothing aside from these occasional expeditions against the Indians. It is also estimated that during the past three years not less than five hundred thousand sheep, and five thousand cattle, mules, and horses have been killed or stolen by the Indians. To this large account must also be added the lives of our citizens that have been sacrificed,.tbe sufferings of others who have been carried into captivity, and the general insecurity which prevails throughout the |