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Show faith, )?y securing, under treaty stipulations, a home for these tribes. The measures recommended hv the sunerintendent will result in concentrating the Indians upon one agency nortb of b e Yaquina bay, and that part of the reserva-tion thrown into market will, it is thoug- ht, pay the whole exp- enses of the pr* posed arrangement. - During the year a supplementary treaty has been made with the tribes of the Warm Springs agency, by which, for a small consideration, they yield the right heretofore reserved to leave the reservation for the purpose of fishing-a right, the exercise of which has been a fruitful source of trouble, leading to greali demoralization among them. They can now he kept npon their reservation and more easily restrained. The accounts from the Umatilla reservation, in the northeastern part of the i State, continue favorable. The snperintendent alludes to the action of the department during the year, in directing tbat permission should be given for the opening of a wagon road through the reservation. This office reported against the movement, on the ground that such a thoroughfare must, by bringing many whites into communi-cation with the Indians, result in their demoralization; but the iuterests of the public, desiring a short route from the Columbia river to the gold mines of Idaho, were urged by the Oregon delegation in Congress as outweighing those of the Indians, and the road was authorized. It is gratifying to learn tbat the road has been so laid out as not to interfere seriously with the Indians; but the snperintendent has felt it to be his doty to forbid the opening of a county road, which was intended to be laid out so as to pass through the Indian farms. Good results are anticipated from the opening of the new Klamath L a b reservation, and the concentration thereon of the Klamaths, Modocs, and Ys hookkin Snakes. A good beginning has been made here under the charge of Agent Applegate, and the Indians are found to lahor with great willingaess and energy. Superintendent Huntington does not think that the Wollpahpee Snakes, who were also intended to he placed upon this reservation, have joind the hostile bands, hut supposes that they have only returned to their old coun-try in the interior of Oregon, and may he induced to come to the reservation when they learn that their @eat,y is ratified. The allotment of land in severalty to such of the Indians of this snperin tendency as are prepared to settle down permanently to the cultivation of the soil, would be of great benefit to them, and in that opinion this office fully con curs. Estimates have been submitted for making the necessary 'surveys npon the Umatilla reservation, and others will be prepared and forwarded in tima for action bv Coneress. Tlw fiupcrinreudvnt mkpn special allueion tu tho fact that undvr rrcrot or-ders tin witlldrawit~gt ho Unitrd State8 truopd from many uf the poete, rhe rc srrvations arc left ~ vBo I IYw itllout vrotection or the inenns of etcfol.cing disci-pline. He refers partie;larly to thi Uoast Range reservation, where th&e are 4,000 Indians now left without a ~ingleso ldier to aid the agenta; and to the Warm Spring reservation, which has been for several years subject to attacks by the hostile Snake Indians, being also left without any protection. I recom-mend an earnest representation of the necessities of the case to the War Depart ment, in order that a few small garrisons may be left at proper places near the exposed points. Besides the Indians upon reservations in Oregon, there are many others, some not treated with because they will not consent to treat, aa the Snakes of the southeast, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them, and upon whom a desultory bnt costly warfare is being made by small parties of United States troops; and some who have been so weak that it wae probably considered useless to attempt to provide for them. These latter live in the northwest, between the Oolumbia river and the ocean, and are similar in |
