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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 171 siwe the 6th of last July, and I cannot, owing to the condition of the mails, sxpect therefore to be advised by you as to what to do in the emergency. The goods were, I am informed, shipped from Nebraska City abo.ut the 18th d August, and I have not heard of them since. They cannot reach their des-tination before the 18th of November, and that is doubtful, as snow fell in the monntains on the 22d instant, while I was travelling between here and the Spanish Fork farm. While I am anxious to keep the peace among the Indians in the mountains, I am still determined notto CverreLh appropriaiions and embarrass thedepartment by making it necesssry to beg from Congress money to make np deficiencies. - . I have written you from time to time, sidce my arrival in this Territory, as to my movements, and it will be seen that I have not had the opporutnity as yet to inform myself fully as to the condition of Indian affairs within this eea-tim of the country, as is necessary to making a full report. After my council with Washakee, I will send snth further report as circum- Btsnces mav reouire. I will endeavor to make UD fur the deficiency in this in my suhseqient 'communications. ' I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 0. H. IRISH, Supmintendent Indian Affairs. Hon. WM. P. DOLE, Commi8sioner Indian Affairs, Washinglon, D. C. No. 61. SUPERINTEXD~OVFC IYN DIAAFFNAI RS, Great Salt Lake CZty. Lr. T , October 18, 1864. 6 1:~ I have the honor to herewith enclose the annual report of Agent 4n-tber Blann, jr., received at this office on the 15th instant. I would respectfully recommend to the favorable consideration of the depart-ment that portion of his report referring to the locaiing of the Shoshonees on s menration. The Indians, in all this mountain country, cannot live any longer by hunting; the game has disappedred, the old hunting-grounds are occupied by our people to their exclusion. We must instruct them, therefore, in aorm nther way of making a living than the chase, or else support them our-dverl in idleness, or leave them to prey upon the emigration pouring into tha m t r y . For staming Indians will steal, pillage, murder, and plunge the fron-tier. from time to time, into all the horrors of savage warfare. Thus the coun-tzy demands from government defence, retribution, and often the extermination aE the starving savages, at a cost of millions of dollars to the national treasury, d e n thousands would have su5ced if placed in the hands of the Indian de-partment to he used in settling them in homes and instructing them in tk penceful arts of industry. @he farmer, with the plough, hoe, and axe, will, if used at the first, be more &dent in keeping peace onjour frontier than the soldikr with cannon, muskets, d b a y o n e t s . With the tribes in these mountains, the first means should be .directed to locating them on reservations, and I feel that we cannot too strongly recommend the policy suggested by Agent Mann as to the Shoshonees, hut that it should he carried out a$ to all the tribes in these mining Territories. Herein lies economy, peace, and safety. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, . 0. H. IRISH, S%pmintendent Indian Affair:. Hon. WM. P. DOLE, Commissioner Indian Affairs, Waahinglon, D. C. |