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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. KO. 38. OFFICE OF SUI'ERINTENDENT OF 18~1.48A FF~IRSU. T.+II. Great Salt Lnkc Cittj, June 21, i S G . I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th Msy, approving my course thus far relative to the acts of the hostile Utah chief Binek Hawk. lmmediatelr sob-sequent to my communicationof April SO, I started far Corn creek, whieh is one of tho ;barest settlements to the seenesof Black Hawk's most recent depredations, and near whieh Ksnoeh, with many of his principal men, was encamped. Kanosh is chief af tho Psh Vents, and is one of the most tharooghly reliable Indians in theTerritoq. I took with mesome presents, w,hieh I distributed ta the Psh Vents. I engaged as speoial interpreter, and sent two or three days in Bdvsnce of myself, Mr. R. K. James, who was for several year8 the United States interpreter at Spanish Fork reservation, and whosein0uenee with Black Hawk and his principd men, owing to his personal acqaaintsnce with them for many years, I judged might be of value tome in procuring the desired intemiew. Xr. James carried a. letter to Kanosh from me, askin him to furnish two or three Indians to acoompany him to the mountains to find~lack~aw!. Ranosh responded at once to my request, but theparty returned after an absence of four days with the intelligence that Bisek Hxwlr, instead of being fifty miles dis-tant, as I had been advised, was over four hundred miles away, in a. southeast direction, having gone to endeavor to procure recruits from among the Elk Mountain Utes, the mast powerful tribe in the Territory, who can bring into the field upwards qf four thousand war-riors. I thereupon sent several Indian mnners out upon the trail m.hieh BiaekHawk would take when he returned towards the settlement, asking him to name a piace where he wouid meet me, and talk of peace. Kanosh also seconded my views, sending to Black Hawk, by the runners, stmng recommendations.that he meet me and make a permanent peaoe. Various rumors that I had hesrdfiam theIndians inUinta valley, together with same facts communicated to me by Kanosh, made me extremely ap rehellsi~eth st aii the Utah Indians except Kanash's tribe wouid join in & general wsr upon &e settlem. The San Pitch Indims, and the vsrious bmds known under the general spPeliation of Goshen Indians, were grestb exasperated st the death of Snn Pitch, and had all left their usual haunts, and gone over the mountains to the Uints, valley. Tho Indiau in that vslley were mueh disaffected st the nou-reception of their presents isst fall, whieh was owing to their not having s r r i ~ e dhe re in season to be treneported to the valley before winter set in. The7 were still more enraged at not having been fed during the winter, and the winter being an unusually severe one, m y had dearly perished of stsrvatian, and s great psrt of their animals had perished. The expenses of the saw-mill at the agency, of cutting hay, &c., had been so great that nothing was left of the appropriation to be expended for the benefit of the I n d i a . As I stated to Mr. Kinney. I consider the tmuble whieh grew out of the starvation md nakedness of the Indians entiily sttrihotahle lo Congrers, which failed to make a sdieient appropria-tian. Thaappmpriarion made, sltboqh apparently a libenl one, was barely soffieient to satisfy the rents of Agent Kinney and his friends, sod nothing at all was left for tho Indians, who \rere sonleahat foolisltly noooged at the seeming inequality of the division. The Indianswere slso greatly disappointed that nothing had been done towards cultivating the farm whieh had been promised them in the Uinta vaiie They claimed that they had sold their farm at Spanish Fork and their eiaim to other l a d to the government in consid-eration that a good farm be mads for them at Uinta valley, but that no preparation had been made far fulfilling the promises on tho part of the government. To quiet this source of dis-affectiun, ns well as because I considered it would bepecuniarilyadvsnthgeous, I hadsent,about rho mitldle of Ap~ilf,o ur laborers to Uinta, under charge of Specie1 Agent Thomas Carter, m.ith instructions to clear up, iosgh, and put into wheat, corn, carrots, potatoes, &c., as much land sa po~sibie I migi't here srste that Mr. Carter hss accomplished mueh in the way of farming for the limited time and labor at his oommsnd, having cleared from the thick sage bu~hesp, lorrghed, fenred, and irri~nteds ome twenty-five acre3 of land, the crops u onwhieh are looking very well, and will, I think, more than repay the outlay upon the isnd: The Uinta vsliey is pmcticaiiy inaccessible from the 1st of Deeember to the 1st of June, or thereabouts of each gear, owing to the deep snow upon the mountain ranges which it is neees-nary to cross to enter the valley. I have sent word to the Indians br Special Agent Carter, who with the other laborers crossed the mountains on snow sboeri, rhnt as soon ss the snow had melted eufficiently to permit tho passage of wagons 1 would visit them, and make then, liberainresents of clothing, food, &e., and urged them espwiai1.r ton-ait and do nothing of au unfriendignatureuntil I had hadan interview r i t b them. 0sin.r to theirrepeateddisappoint-ments relative to their presents, I did not deem it an object to :.kit them in person until I eooid carry with me their goods. While at Corn creek I learned that the Uinta Indians had at lennth commenced hostilities by amid from Uinta valley ur Springfield, carrying awepaome horses and mules, and aisu, two or three days later, y a slm~ler a d upon Heber Cit); from which settlement they taolc nee.1Iy 100 cattle and horses. I, therefore. a: once decide1 to risit the 'Uinta valley. Krmosh, st my request, direetei three of hk p:ineip;:: i?:!,-:h:ef- :o neeampany me, and to do n.hat lay in their pa,%-e: ro prerec: fi:-.i$e: :rr.:!i:~. 90 1 |