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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 155 MEADOWVA LLEYU,. T., May 4, 1865. Sm : In compliance with your instructions of date October 21, 1864, I started from Great Salt Lake City on the 24th of that month, and proceeded to the southern part of Utah Territory, and arrived at this place on the 15th of November. Meadow valley is distant fiom Salt Lake City about four hundred miles by the travelled route, and near the southwest corner of the Territory. Snake valley is about one hundred and twenw miles north, and Pahranagat valley is about one hundred miles west-southwest, from Meadow valley. The Indians who range in this part of the country are the Pai-Utes. They are a very warlike tribe ; I estimate their number at ahout from two to three thousand, and the country they claim extends from Snake valley on the north to the Culorado river on the south, and from the Wahsatch range of mountains on the east to Pabranagat valley on the west, making a dis-trict about two hundred and fifty or three hundred mrles each way, through which the southern route from Salt Lake City to California passes. These I~ldiansa re v ew Door auddestitute. They have no horses or other domestic animals, and liGebrincip+IIy on roots, pi;e-nuts, smell game, reptiles, and insocts. Many of them had never seen a white man before I went among them. They have never had any assistance or encouragement from govern-ment.' Those who live near the California road have in manv instances be-I come expert thieves, and sometimes steal stockand other thiogs from trains passiue the road. Those livin-g near the settlements also steal cattle occa- &ionall? from settlers. I have endeavored to induce them to leave their present country and go to Uintah valley and live on tbat reservation, hut they do not consent. They say they are afraid of the Utahs. It is here proper to remark that the Utahs have long been in the habit of stealing the women and children of these Indians, and either selling them to the Spaniards or to other tribes ; sometimes they were kept as servants. This practice is still continued, and hence their fear of the Utahs, and consequent refusal to settle with them at Uintah. They are willing to get together at sume place in their own coun-t- ry,. hu t I think i t impossible to get their consent to place them with the Utabs. Within the country claimed by these Indians there are settlements; that is to sag, at Pinto creek, St. George, Santa Clara, Clover valley, Eagle valley, Meadow valley, and Big Muddy. These settlements are from twenty to fifty miles distant from each other, except St. George and Santa Clara, which are near together. Silver mines have been discovered at Snake val-ley, Meadow valley, and Pahranagat valley, and parties are taking meas-ures to develop them. The stock of the settlers and miners must necebsarily feed on the bunch-grass, (which is abundant in the mountains,) and are liable to he stolen by the Indians. In order to keep the Indians quiet in the vicinity of the set-tlements of Utah Territory, 1 have been compelled to distribute presents and provisions among the Indians in the adjoining Territories, and have given much more to them, especially those in southeastern Nevada, than to those in Utah. In view of these facts above stated, I deem it my duty to recommend that some action be promptly taken to lxtter the cbndition of the Indians, and for the protection of the whites, and I know of none more likely to be effect-ual than the erection of an agency for the Pai-Utes. They should he taken under the protection of the government, and if possible brought together and instructed in agriculture. By reference to the maps it will be seen tbat the Pai-Utes' country lies partly in Utah, partly in Nevada, and partly in Arizona, and there is no |