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Show 3TAH SUPERISTENDENCY. 125 be mnstered out of senice. The settlers raised some two hundred men from. rarious parts of the Territory, who were stationed st the more exposed points, siuce which timeuo further depredations have been committed. I have made several trips to different p-rts of the Terri-tmy, accompanied by Indian guides, in thesndsavor M have aninterview with Blsek Hawk. but hsve been unable, ~3 yet, to meet him. I hwe alno sent seremlIndiso runners to find and endeavor toindo~eh im to meet me, and have recentiy received aesuraoce that be was iudisposed to forther hostilities, and willing and anxious for peace. I expect to meet him at mme point within the ooming one or two months, and think no torther trouble ueed be ap rehended fmm him or his band. &n Pitch, chief of the band of Indians known as San Pitches, was one of the signers of the treaty made doring tbe summer of 1865, st Spanish >'ark. He was, in March last, accused of having furnished Black Hawk with s quantity of ammunition, and was, wit11 several of his principal men, arrested by the settlers an such charge. A guard wm placed mer the prisoners st Msnti, in San Pete county. Their squaws, who were allowed to visit them. secreted knives about their persons and gave them to the Indians. San Pitch then nttseked the guard, and in the frsoas which ensued esnaped, aithongh he was so severely wounded that he died a few days after. He waa a bad Indian, and, from investigations I have since made, I am satisfied that he had been for s Ion* time furnishing Black Hawk with ammunition, sod also advising him as to the most fc2sible points for stealing cattle. He was, however, a relative of Tabby, the chief of the Uintsh Utahs. 8nd his death caused great exeitentent throughout the tribe. Tile Uintahs were previously somewhat ill.diapased from the non-reception of their presents, and from the fact that slmost no provisions had been furnished them during the winter. The winter wss one of u,nususl severity, and they had nearly perished of starvation. Agent L. B. Rioney, in charge st the Uintah agency, was guilty of gross neglect of duty, and had expended the liberal appl.opriation,~adeb y the government in such s manner as to be of almost no benefit to the Intians. lhe Indians were greatly exssperated against him from his having made oountless promises to them whieh were not fulfilled. The muses above named united in producing much ill-feeling among the Indians, who prepared for a gsnoral war. Ls r~enu mbers were ssaembled in Uintah vai- 1 The laborers st the Indian fsrm were moeh alarmed sod left the reservation. klatter:, stood thus in March last, when I assumed the duties of superintendent. Agent Rinney wss shortly after relieved, and I sent Thomas CBrter, esq., to the reservationas specislagent, with a few laborers, to oommence, work on the farm. I sssursd the Indians that as soon as it was possible to cross the mountsins with teems I wot~ld visit them, and distribute an abundance of presents and provisions, aud explain to them theintentionsof the gaveruulent. In Msy I started accordingly, with four wagons loaded with goods sod flour. Ex-Governor Brigham Young sent out at the same time some seventy beef cattle, as s present to the Indians. I reached the valley with nlueh difficuity, owing to the high water and deep snow in the mountains. After remaining riewly two weeks, holding uumerous councils with the Indians, everything was srrsnged on a baaia ~nutualiys atisfactory. The Iudinns were eon-vinced that all the promises on the part of the government would be kept, and have since conducted themselves with entire propriety. From the foreping pneral statement of the present condition of onr Indians, it will be seen that matters, so far ~8 regards the praservabion of the preoe, alw now upon an exceed-ingly sstisf~.ctoryb asis. The promptness and energy displayed on the part of the Indian department in forwarding the gooda for the coming year by early mule trains, which reached this point early in September, will greatly promote the efficiency of the service. The goods fur the conling yem were purchased at muoh lower rates than have heretofore been paid, and although still insufficient tor the needs of the senice, except in eases befare named, where specific treaty stipulations have been mede with the ditfsrent tribes, will go far toward making the Indians comfortable dnring the eoming winter. There will still be a necessity for the distribution of a large *mount of provisions during the winter, ap the Indians are extremely poor, and, like other people, will steal before they willstsrve. TBE UlNTAH AGENCY. Owin to the lack of funds, but little bas been done during the present sesson toward pre-wing t%e ~ i n t avha lley to be the homefor all the Utah tribes of Indians, aa is contemplated !y the various acts of Congress relative to the subjeot. Nothing had been previously done toward making a farm st the ageucy. Special Agent Carter has sceomplihrd all that eould hsve been done in the limited time and with the mesns available. Some twenty-five acres .of land have been cleared from thicksage bushes, ploughed, enclosed with s sub~tantinfle nce, 'and put iuto crops of wheat, eom, potatoes, turnips, carrots, &o.; irrigation ditches have been oonstluoted to water the whole, and the crops, except cum, are ereellent. The valley is admirably sdspted for both cnltivation and graziag. The Indians hare performed oan-eiderable labor at the farm, and shown great aptitude ss herdsucen. It wlU doubtless be found more advantsgeous md economical to furnish them with stock, and to train them to its wre and msnagement, than to engagsin extensive farming operations. Aspecifio sppro-priation should be made for this aggneg fur the coming year; no provision whatever sss made for the current year, and the e x p e w st the agency hare befn defrayed from the fund |