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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. At the date of my last annual report advices of the negotiation of treaties of peace and friendship with several of the tribes of Indians of Utah, as well aa of Idaho, whose range lies along the great overland ronte, had been received, and the annual report of Governor Doty, in relation to the affaii.~o f his snper-intendency, and particularly in reference to these treaties, was received in time to be published in the Appendix. In addition to the treaties, verbal or written, referred to in my last report, as having been already made, and from which great good was expected to result in securing a peaceable transit of emigrants throughout the great routes of travel, two other treaties were forwarded by Governor Doty, under date of October 21, 1863, having been effected by him, in conjunction withGeneral Canner, commanding the United States forces in Utah Territory, to whose energy and good jndgment, combined with the bravery of his troops in their previous operations against the Indians, great credit is due, as having impressed thelatter with a wholesome idea of the power of the white man, and disposed them to seek for peace. The two treaties referred to were made-the oneOctober 12, 1563, at Tnilln valley, with the Shoshonee bands of the Goship tribe, aud the other October 14, at Soda Springs, Idaho Territory, with the mixed bands of Shoshonees and Bannacks.. of Snake River vallev. After negotiating these two treatier, Goveruur Doty and General Corl~~eInra d tltc pleasure of announcing t l l ~ th rre remaitled 110 l~ostiletr ibe slung tho rontr.s of travc.1 ta Neradn and Calift~rnia. I n a later letter from Governor Dotv".. lunch valnable information is given in relation to the various bands and tribes of Indians whom he had visited, and with whom he had treated, and an approxi-mate estimate of their numbers is given. The various treaties thus made were transmitted to the Senate in due course. They were all returned from the Senate, confirmed, but with amendments, which amendments were forwarded to Governor Doty with instructions to obtain the assent of the Indians to them. There is not in our files any acknowledgment by him of their receipt, neither does Superintendent Irish, who succeeded Cov-ernor Dotv, allude to themsin his report. In the letter of instructions sent with the akendmenta to tbr trenti(sa, it was 8nggcatcd that, inasmuch ad tl~cre eniatt.d no appropriatiun t u defray the vxpenser of getting the 111didt1to~g ether to obtaill their coesellt ~Lerclo,t l ~ cu hieet lni-zl it he ntrainrd ut t l~rti me of the payment of theirjnnuities. The subject of abandoning the several small reservations in Utah, and con-centrating the Indians upon one large reservation, known as the Uintah valley, has been frequently urged upon the attention of this office, hut 'for want of roper information as to the locality and its resources, and on account of the %ostility of, and pending military opetations against, severalof the tribes, nothing has yet been accomplished in that dirt,ction. In January, 1864, a memorial was received from the legislature of Utah, asking that the emaller reservations might be surveyed and opened to the whites for settlement, and by the act of Conaress a~oroved Mav 5. 1864. nrovision was made for their sttrvev. and for - a , . . . ". the permaal:!tt rerervaliort of Uintall valley a as 110me !br llle Indians of Utah. Ad appropriation of S30.00U was aljo mndc for the purposeof prrparing homes on t l ~ ere serve iur those Ini i ia~~wsl mnl~o~~hel dr tmuved to it. and foraidinc them in becoming self-supporting-, by means of agriculture. The Uintah vall& had been by order of the President, as recommended by this office, eet apart for the exclusive occupation of the Indians as long ago as October, 1861, but in the im-perfect geographical knowledge of the country, its exact limits could not be defined. The tract set apart by following what are supposed to be dividing ridges, so as to include the whole region traversed and drained by the Uintah river and its upper branches down to its junction with the Green river , i s un- |
