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Show 168 UTAH SUPEBINTENDENCY. To secure supplies of game, fruits, and roots, the Colorado Indians are obliged to range further from the river, and hence are frequently seen on all our roads and trails between the capital and the river. Travellers and trains meet them with suspicion and fear. The exasperation of the whites against the Apaches of the east, who have stripped the country of stock and murdered many of the whites, extends to nearly all the Indians of the Territory, and is kept up by the continued depredations of the cruel Apaches, and tales and fictions that are rife in regard to the Indians everywhere. Difficulties are liable to arise from another cause. Bands of wacriors are constantly coming in among those that are peaceably disposed, and their pres ence and influence are unfavorable upon the Indians, and excite the snspicion of the whites. It is difficult to deternine precisely where these war parties belong. If the country continues to settle n as it now promises, but one course, so i t seems to me, is left to be ~ursueda,u Bthat is to place them all on reservations. While I am disposed to do all I can to forward the development of our Terri-tory, I am equally desirous of preserving the friendship of the Indians, and securi~~jugs tice and kindness on the part of the whites towards them. Any instructions or suggestions that you can give to the furtherance of these aims will be thankfully received by your obedient servant, JOHN D. DUNN. Eon. W. P. DOLE, Indian Cmnmiasirmer, Washingtma, D. C: UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. No. 60. OFFICES UPERINTENDEONF TI NDIAAFFNAI RS, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Septembw 26, 1864. SIR : In compliance with the regulations of the Indian dep-ent, I have the honor to make the following report of the condition of Indian affairs within this superintendency, 80 far as I am able to obtain information in the short time I have been here, less than one month. I took ossession of what property there was on the first of September, and relieved 8 overnor Doty from the further performance of duty as actiug super-intendent of Indian affairs. There was neither office nor office furniture, and I found it necessary to proceed at once to supply the deficiency in these respects. There were delegations in the city and vicinity, representing the various tribes of the superintendency, awaiting impatiently my arrival, to whom I had to give immediate attention, in order to assure them of tbe care the government had over their interests. I gave them presents of provisions and clothing, &c., so far as the limited means at my disposal wonld allow, receiving from them in re-turn the assurance that they would remain peaceable and true to the govern-ment and be the friends of the whites. I told them that the Great Father would rather send presents to Indians than to send soldiers ; that the more Indiana help themselves the more presents he would give them; that soldiers were only sent among bad Indianls; that when the goods came I would ask for the Indians who had cultivated the gmund and raised crops, and that I would clothe them like white men; and then I wonld ask for the best hunters, and make them presents, before I gave anything to thelazy andidle Indians who stayed around the settlements; that I would give the most help to those who helped themselves. Complaints were made by settlers of their horses being stolen, and, I found, with truth. I brought the matter to the attention of the Indians, and they |
