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Show or provided for elsewhere; and, at all events, snggested that their consent onght first to be obtained before any survey should be made. The subject having been mbmitted to your department, it was determined that an attempt should be made to obtain the formal consent of all of the Utah bands, on considen-tion of substantial and permanent benefits to be received, to remove to the 'Uintah valley, and cede their right of occupancy of all other lands in the Territory. Accordiugly, instructions to this end were sent to Superintendent Irish in the spring ; and during the month of June he sueceeded in convening the leading men of the tribes at Spanish Fork, and making a treaty which has received the assent of all the Utah banda above named, and which has been recently laid before you. The superintendent's interesting report, which ac-companied the treaty, gives ground for hope that a great work is well-nigh ac-complished for the Territory, in throwing its lands open to settlement, as well as for the Indians, in providing for them a comfortable home. The treaty cedes nearly the whole of Utah Territory, excepting only the Uintah valley, and a strip along the southern end of the Territory, and if the snperintendent is successful in his attempt to bring the PI-Edes to agree to the treaty, that strip also will he ceded. I t may he observed by those critical in geographical lines that the northwestern part of Utah is also covered by claims made by different bands of Shoehonees in the treaties of amity with them; hut as the last-named tribes will soon be under treaty in Idaho, where they properly belong, no conflict of jurisdiction is likely to arise. I recommend that medals and presents be given to Washnkee, chief of the northeast Shoshonees, and to Konosh, chief of the Pah-Vants, as a s eeial tes-timonial of appreciation by the department of their good conduct an 8 good in-. Auence over-their people. Washakee recently asked permission to take part in the campaign against the weetern Sioux, and this was granted, subject to t.he arrangements to be made with the military commander of the district of the. IJpper Platte. There has been, as appears from the superintendent's report, considerable. uneasy feeling among all the Utah Iniixns, resulting from representations made. to them by disloyal whites as well as by Indians, that the white troops were not succeeding in their campaign against the Sioux, who wererepresented as fight-ing for the rights of the whole red raee,and to save themselvesfrom extermina-. tion. Still further canseof dissatisfaction occurred in the delays ineident up011 the delivery of the goods promised to the Indians, which delay was caused by the goods being turned haek by the military officers in command along the over-. land route, after having been started in good season from Nebraska City; but, in spite of these untoward circumstances the Indians have behaved remarkably well. The snperintendent suggests that hereafter the goods be forwarded over the plains by mule trains, instead of by oxen, so that, by being atarted in good sea-eon, they may with some degree of certainty be expected to arrive at their des-t, ination in time to he distributed to the Indians before they leave for their winter hunt. NEW MEXICO. But three of the Indian agents in New Xexico have made their annual reports this year-Aee-nt s Ward. Archuleta, and Labadi. Those of the two former are ~ ~ ~~- ~ somewhat meagre. That of the latter is more full, and gives some interesting information in regard to the tribes now and heretofore under Ids charge; but it comes at too late-a day to receive any extended notice. - I t is understood that most of t.he agents appointedin New Mexico canneither read nor write in the English language, which may account for the slowness of some and the delinquency of others in furnishing reports. I have some infor-mation in regard to the present condition of Indian affairs in New Mexico, from the supelintendent'a aunnal report, but he states that he is obliged to present it |