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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDM AFFAIRS. 13 tions the crops of the last year had yielded about 3,800 bushels of grain, 350 tons of hay, besides a large quantity of potatoes, peas, beans, &c., and there I were 800 head of horses and cattle and 400 hogs upon these landa. 1 Vervsoonafter Suoerintendent Wile7 entered uuon his duties the Indians who still rlmzined npon t6e abandoned resclration ne& lFort Tcjon were wmosed to the 'l'xile River farm, togtthrr with all goverarnerlt proplLrty. An ample supply of food wa* mised noon rlle f.rrm forall the lnilians olnc1.1 uwjn it. The horsed and mules f romtheA~ejoiens ervation were taken to' ~ound;alle~. Mr. Wiley's reports in regard to the fertility of Round valley, and its pecu-liar fitness for an Indian reservation, as furnishing several thousand acres of arable land, well watered, and isolated from white settlements, concur with our previous accounts of that locality, and he has been authorized to take the pre-liminary steps to settle with the rightful white claimal~lso f a portion of the land, and to procure title for some additional distance around the valley, so as to more completely isolate the occupants from the whites, and with a view to remove to this reservation the Indians now in the scattered settlements upon the Mendocino reservation. This removal might have been made early in the last summer, but it was deemed advisable to delay the movement until the crops were harvested. The lndians from the Mendocino reservation will have their condition mnch improved by the removal, and much expense will he avoided. I n Mr. Wiley's commnnioation of June 1 he had alluded to the war still in progress with the Klamath, Redwood, and Trinity Indians, and which was re-ferred to in my last annual report. Several hundred of tbese Indians had been taken prisoners, and were held in safe-keeping at Humboldt Bay by the United States military authorities. I t was proposed by the superintendent in this oom-munication, aa also in a later one, that these prisoners, with such others as should be captured, and the remainder of the hostile Indians, when they should be brought to submission, should be taken into his charge and placed on a reserva-tion to be selected south of San Erancisoo. Under date of July 9, I re lied to this proposition that this office eouldnot consent to the selection of anotter res-ervation for the purpose so long as that in Round valley was, as was conceded, sufficient for the accommodation and subsistence of a much larger population; neither co111d I consent to the superintendent's selecting a temporary home for these prisoners, and taking them under the charge of the department. I in-formed Mr. Wiley that there were no funds available for the temporary siubsist-eneeof these Indians, but that, whenever the military operations had closed with the suhmissiou of the hostile bands, they could all be concentratedon the Round v.a ~ll.e,-v- r .p servxtion. -~ ~~ 1 Under date of June 30 the superintendent reported npon the condition of the Indians npon the Round Valley and Mendoeino reservations. E v e ~ ~ t h i naoa-peared in; favorable condition"at the first-named resenation, but the g&e;al result of the examination of the other locality confirmed the impression before entertained of the good policy of removing the occupants to Round valley and abandoning tl~e Mcndocino reservation. As the reservation at Smith river would thus be the onIy one left upon the northern coast, I repeat my reoom-mendation that amgements should be made fur the purchase of the land now leaned for the use of the Indians of that localitv. As a measure of true economv. ~t would seem to he clearly advisablethat the"government should purchase these lands and become their permasent owner, provided they can be obhined at a reasonable rate, rather thai continue to rent them at five holiars per acre. More recently a communication from Mr. Wiley was received, enclosing a copy of an agreement made with the band of Indians of Trinity river, so long hostile, the fact of their submission having been made known to Mr. Wile7 by General Wright, commanding the department of the Pacific. This ageement provides for concentrating the Indians on the Hoopa valley, a fertile tract of land, of sufficieut extent, and quite isolated from the white settlements. The |