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Show 22 REPORT OF THE COMMI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. side, with the necessary teachers, employ&s, and licensed traders, and where the government regulations established for the welfare of the Indians may be enfarced. Whether or not a tract of land suitable for this purpose, and proper and sufficient for an established home for the tribes west of the Rocky monnt-ains and south of Oregon, can be found within the control of, or attainable by government, I am not prepared to say; but until this suggeetion is f11lly con-sideredand deemed impracticable of accomplishment, I ~houldd oubt the pro-priety of recommending the approval of Superintendent Poston's proposition to locate thetribes referred to upon the reservation along the Colorado, involving, as it does, so large an expenditure, Superintendent Poston concludes his very interesting report by ft~rniahinga list uf assistants and agents, designated by him in the course of hia visits to various tribes, with the rate of salary proposed by him. Thelist is submitted for your consideration, with the remark that in the instructions given to Mr. Poston, under date of July 16,1863, and published on page 390 of the papers accompany-ing my last annual report, no authority was giveti for the appointment of agents with designated salaries. The following direction was given, vim : "Should it be necessary to employ persons for special service, you are at liberty to do so, reporting the same to this office for approval, and paying for such service out of moneys in your hands applicable thereto." Should claim8 he presented for specific services under the appointments of Mr. Poston, they will he considered as they arise. In regard to these matters, as well as in the adoption of a just and practicable policy for the Indians of Arizona, the department will, for-tunately, hereafter he able to avail itself of the valuable aid of Nr. Poston, who is chosen a delegate to Congress from that Territory, His experience will be very valuable, and will doubtless he gladly placed at the disposal of theDe-partment. The latest information from this superintendency, published in the last an-nual report from this office, was contained in a communication from Governor Evans, ez o@io superintendent, dated November 19, 1863, and at that time there were strong indications of the formation o f a hostile league between the Indians of the plains and the Sioux of the north. During the winter the evi-d. enc~es o.f th~is m~edita~ted a ction accumulated ranidlv. and were from time to time ~ ~ ~~~ ~~ ~~~ ~~ a ". r,e purted tu yuu t~rconsidcrati~ann d h r the inIiirm;~tiono f tlrr: \Vnr Uc pmtmrnr. 1. l le lette~.*it t.d ~ O C U U ) ? I , ~ Sil c~ornpnn)-i~f~llgis , c~rnpri~i~t)h:e annu.ll report of G.t .vrl.nar Evans. r.l~islit~ v crv t'oll in its detuils. toretllrr wi th the rarioua 1rtrel.s ~ ~~ . " from agentsand r~tliersf brw.~rdcdn t frrqttvnt inrrrvals during tlte prrdtnt year, will be tLund to coltl:rm tlie auppositiu~t th81t tile lio~rile lrague rumpri.ivd a por-tion uf tlrr Arnoahol:a and the C L C Y ~ I ICI oIm~ n~n,c Le~,I iiuaur. and Anaches, with the Sioux &om the north. I t is a matter of great regret that a sufficient number of troopscouldnot have remained or been placed at the disp~saolf the military authorities of the region of country where tbesg;h?stilities took place, to enable them to strike early and promptly, as by such actlon it is probable that the loss of life and property along the overland route during thesummer might have been, to a great extent, plevented, and the first overt act of the Indians so thoroughly punished as to bring them to submission. As it has proved, the exigencies of the military sit-nation not onl"v nrevented an increase in the number of trOODS stationed in Gal- - orado and we*rel.tl Kirn$as, hc actually caused tibat nurnl>&r to be redurrd at the very time wllen tht. most urgrtlt reyresrtttations mado to tlris office by the gJrernor of Colorado a i~dci rizrnri best acquaint~d~ i t thhe cot~~litinonf thing9 1,ad hkm presentrd hy you to the War Department. It deem$, t'rom a ytrunill of the documrntd herewith, to be beyond doubt that a prompt display of n~ili- |