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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. to express the opinion that all the routes of travel through Utah Territov bD Nevada an& California, andto the Beaver Head and Boise river gold mines, may now be used with safety. No fears of depredations or molestation need be apprehended from the S b shonee, Utah, Goship, or Bannack nations, judging from the feelings manifested by them, and their strong professions of friendship and eslre for peace at tbs signing of the treaties, the last of which was made w8 h th.e B annacks of th Ghoshonee River valley, at Soda Springs, on the 14th instant. JAMES DUANE DOTY, Commissimer~ P. EDWARD CONNER, Bng. Gm. Gal. Pols., Com'd.g M ilitary De.pa rtment qf &lab A. J. CENTERE, sq., Tkeasurer Overland Mail Company, New Ymk. I No. 64. DEPARTMENOFT THE INTE,RIOC, Ofice Indian Affairs, Decem6er 30, 1865 SIR: I have the honor to enclose herewith, for your consideration, and if ap-roved by you, for trans-sion to the Preaident of the United States, to be by Rim laid before the Senate for its constitutional action thereon, the fo~lo*ng named treaties with certain Indian tribes, vie: With the eastern bands of Shoshonees, July 2, 1863, at Fort B~idger; With the northwestern bands of Shoshonees, at Box Elder, July 30, 1865; With the western bands of Sboshonees, at Ruby valley, October 1, 1863; With the Goship hands of Shoshonees, at Tuilla valley, October 12, 1f363y and With the mixed bands of Bannacks and Shoshonees, at Soda Springs, Octok 14,1863. I algo enclose a copy of a letter of Governor Doty, relating to the Indiam, parties to the foregoing treaties, with a wpy of a map furnished by that g& man, showing the territory ceded. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. P. DOLE, Commissione~ Hon. J. P. USIIE~, Secretary ofthe hterior. No. 65. TERRITOORF YUT AH,S UPERINTENDOPE INNCDY IAAFFNAI RS, Great Salt Lake City, Novem6er 10, 1863 SIR: The map transmitted to me by the department is herewith returned, with the exterior boundaries of the territory claimed by the Shoshonees in their recent treaties, as also the lines of the country occupied by different portions of the tribe, indicated upon it as correctly as the map will allow. They 6xedtheir eastern boundary on the crest of the Rocky mountains; but it is certain that they, as well as the Bannacks, hunt the buffalo below the Three Forks of ths Missouri, and on the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Wind rivers. As none of the Indians of this country have permanent places of abode, m their hunting excursions they wander over an immense region, extending f w |