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Show 20 REPORT OF THE CQMXSSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. without assistance from the agents, although, like them, he speaks the Spanish lanewe. In order to &ve an inteHiaible summary as to mattera in this Terri-to*, Ism obliged to re% much on pFevious reports, and upon information oh-tsined from the late snperintendent, Dr. Steck, on his late visit to this city. The Indiansof New Mexico may be best divided into four classes, to wit : Ajnzchea, of which there are four divisions, the Mescalems and Mimbres, whose range was, and for the moat part still is, the southeast quarter of the Ter-ritory; the Jica~+llasn, umbering, according to Agent Labadi, 987 soule,ranging in t,he northeast portion-these tribes or bands, together, being estimated to num-ber some 3,500; and the Gila Apaches, in southwest New Blexico, estimsded at, sap, 4,fKH) or 4,500. Utah*, heing the JIohnschea, a small band of some 800, who range along the nonl~en dof the l'vrritnry, partly in C'ulc~mdoa; nd tLeCa:aporrs and Wunnrmuchca, living in the northwest, nimh&+ng some 2.500. Pwe6Iw. or " Village Indians:' oceupyirlg some nineteen village, scattered for a long distance dmg e line dmwn northeast and sonthwest through h n t a FB, holding their lands by grants from the Spanish government, confirmed to them bv tbe United States. and nornherinz ahout '1.000 aoula. 0 . A'UI -~~PRtIt,n krn priaunern by tbi! military furcrs,and removed to the rcsern-tiou at Uoeque Rzdondn, on the l'ecnj river, in the emtern part of the Terriiory in 1YG8-'61. nnd nnn~hcrioaa. t laten aecounta. a little or r r 7.000: their orimnd home being in what is no; Arizona, though rmging in@ northneatern s e w Mexim. Of the Apaches, my information, through Sn eriuteadent Delgaao's report, is meagre. The reaervation at the Bmsqne IIedon$o was (bp recnmmendation fm this office of January 14, 1184. laid before the President of the United States, and app~osed by him, as appears from department letter of January 16, 1SG4) set apart for the Apachea, it being intended to colonize all of the various birnds of that txibe npon it; and as it was estimated to contain about 6.000 or 1,000 acres of arahle land, it wae deemed snffieient for the D. UID.O Ws. A beeinniu.g, was madr with n portion of the Me~c~l+.wroh~o ,w ere rcprr~rntedn e prngrr3sing with their a p r ~ ~ n l t ~(~m~l~ m.Rt iimn r<u ch a manner as tn glvr gnml rrnson to Ilowthst tlre rema~nderot'tht.h andscould br ioduerd to cnme in. T l ~ ere mnral of 'the Nzveioes to the reservation. being-. old enemies of the Aoaches. and so largely out,"mbering them ss to nearly monopolize the reservkion, is under-stood to have checked the further concentration of the Apaches at that place, and the nnmher upon the resematio~r has remained about <he sameas lastyew, the ~nperintendent,r eporting it at 472. The Jicarilla Apaches, who are sup posed to be cared for hy the agency situated upon the O~mamon river, in the nortbeast. are renresented hv Aeent Lahadi as hein. further advanced in civili-zstion than the ither wild t~be a~hnvibnege n more & the settlements, and many of them ~penkme the Seanish lanauare. From otber sources they are repre-sented as-hard &es-&rthIesa ~ag~bonds-coneemkg whose improvement the soperinteadent suggests their removal to the Bosqur: Redondo, where I doubt if there is room for them, or if they could be induced to go and remain. The aeent recommends that thev bc eetablished on a eood reservation in tbeir own country, and says that if t h i ~we re done, and someassistance &orded them hy the government, they would raise good crops, establish eehoola, and learn to obtain & honest living.- - - Of the Gila Apaches Pery little isknown. Some years ago they were visited, and exhibited n disposition to cancentrate upon s reservation, which was at tbat time selected by Superintendent Steck, on the dividinf line between New Mexico and Arizona, in a fertile and isolated valley, hot not ing further haa been done in regard to them. In regard to tire Utahs, %he mail band of Mohnaehes, being anicd to the Tabe-qnaehes &f Oolorado, shedd,it is thought,be turned over to that superintendency, and concentrated with them on the proposed reservation on the San Juan river, |