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Show UTAH BUPERINTENDENCY. i for incidental expenses, which was before insn5oient to meet the demand upon it. This fund should be sirnost entirely expended in the purchase of provisions to furnish the Indiana ; during the winter, when they cantlot support themselves, sod are dependent, in B grmt measure, upon the bounty of the government sod the settlers. I My experience with Indinns in thia Tenitory hss satisfied me that by judicious manage. ment no trouble will be had in maintaining with them the most peaceful relations. I hane never been among any people who appreciate mare highly any exhibition of kindness snd goad will. I have known no instance of difficulty between them. snd tbe whites in which tho Indians were the a@gressors. Th-y redize f ~ ~ lthl ye power of the government, and would at d l times greatly prefer to remsin at peace. In this, as in the other newer Territories, a* i numerous reekless and unprincipled adventurers, who, for purposes of traffic, will sometimes give the Indians whiskey, or will sometimes shoot sn Indim fram sheer wantonness, and thus muse the lives of innocent whites to be taken in retaliation for their acts. Fewer oo- i eurrenees of this ntLture, however, trsnspire here thau in any other Territory, owing to the 1 faet that the people of this Territory are &almost entirely engaged in agricultural pursuits. 8 The most entire tranquillity can be preserved among the Indians in this Temtoq if they he treated by the government with kindness and liberality. A bde of blankets or a sack of flour will aeeootplish more than its weight in gold expended in prosecuting military opera-tions against the Indians. It is, too,intinitely more in accordance with the spirit of our insti-tutions and our professions of Christiauity aud civilizationas s peo le to treat these paorand ignonmt wsrds of the rt~tionw ith 8, spirit of enlightened chsrity, t L n to put in practice the doctrine of military surveillanee and extermination, which is worthy of the darkest ages of the race. Witltin n compnratir6ly short poriod, with proper management, the Indims of this Territory can ha made nearly self-supporting, and may look forward to s future of peace, comfort, and tranquillity, in entire subordinatiop to lnw., I should be doing injustice to my own feelings did I fail to mention in this report the cor-dial co-operation I havo at ail times experienced from all the princi al Mormons throughout . the Territory. In the execution of my official duties I havo been oEliged often to ask their assistance and eo-opemtioo, and in no instance have I failed to receive the mast oheerfuld hearty aid. I transmit herewith sn eatinlate for the necessary spprapriatirms for the service during the mming year. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, F. H. IIEAD, S~perintendent Indian Affoirs. Eon. D. N. COOLEY, Cormksimer I&a Affairs. No. 35. FORTBR IDGER AGENCY,S eptnn5er 15, 1866. SIR: In eompliinea with the reguletions of the Indian department, I hare the honor to subntit the following report relative to the affairs of this agency: About the 20th of September, 1865, the season being far advanced and &me scarce, the Shoshones immediately set out for their winter hunting grounds across t%e mountains, if possibla to resalt there before the snow fell. The whole tl.ibe accompanied Chief 'lVsshakee thither, with the exception of five or ten lodges; who pnssed the winter an Green river, about fifty miles from hare, where they snb-sisted on the sml~lgl ame there to be found, nnd nlsking no demands upon me for sssistance. The main portion of the tribe proceeded to the ve.lllleys of the Pawpawgee and Wind rivers, where they spent the winter hunting the buffalo, deer, elk, and mountsin sheep. They pro-cured during the season upwards of one thousand buffalo mhas e.nd a few dressed skins of other named animals, 8 much largEr collection than during any previous year. They also secured s good supply of dried meat. Although the psst was the severest winter on record for the past ten years, the Indians of my agency never fared better nor looked so fat and healthy as they did on their arrival here this summer, proving oonolusively that they had fared sumptuously every.day. Such well-fed Indinns could not be athenvise than healthy, so that the mortzlity among them has fsllen far below the average. I did not have s fwore.bls opportunity for taking the census of the tribe this year, but estimate the number of Shoshones at nineteen hundred. Aside from the natural increase by births, which has not fallen short of former years, there has been a oansiderahle addition from nei hboring tribes. About four hundred Bannocks, under s chief named Tahgay, (a very worfhy Indian, and in whom I fully re ose oontidenoe,) who have been residing in the vicinity of Soda Springsandalong the Snn!e river, passed over into the Wind River rial-ley and located themselves adjacent to the Shoshones, with whom they are et pasee. They also accompanied the Shoshones on their visit to this agency, and, from all that I can learn of them, I think they desire to he on themost friendly terms with the whites. I did not have any presents for them, and was informed that they h ~ dno t received any fram the Great |