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Show 10 REPORT ON INDIAN AFFAIRS. department. They are represented as tractable, kind, and industrions. Per-hape the best location for these bands is the Walker River reservation, which is sufficiently large, containing an area of 500 square miles, and including a lake from which ample supplies of fish could be obtained. Some arrangement should be made to provide a home for the Washoes, a miserable, degraded band, who live by begging around the towns and settlements in the west border of Nevada; also for the Shoshones in the southeast part of the State, who have a good name for honesty. and industry. ARIZONA SUPERINTENDENOY. Reports represent the relations with the hostile tribes of this superintendency as unchanged. What the military have accomplished towards producing a better state of things is not apparent. I n some instances their scouting parties may have been successful ; still there is no general peace ; depredations and murders by the Indians are yet committed. The trouble is mainly with the large and war-like tribe of Apaches, but these, recently, have indicated adesire to 'be friendly, to cease their depredations, and be restricted to a country of defined limits. Some of their bands entered into a treaty last summer, with an officer of the army in command at Fort Grant, bnt the arrangement being unauthorized has been disavowed. By your direction Suparinteudent Dent h s been instructed to visit these Indians, with a view to ascertain their disposftion in reference to negotiating with the government and locating upon a reservation. Although seemingly intractable, it is believed that bv well-dirzcted efforts their warlike and ~reda-tory habita may be ehnngr<l,a nd thud re3ultiog. H great source of tro~thlc~thoe citire~lno f Arizona will be removeJ. 'l'hr tuurderof Superintende~I~.rti hy and hia clerk, in the lnt t~vrn rt of 1866, is believed tobnvc bern thr dt:etI of the Ts sntn band of Apaches, the :nciting motives being, it is thought, to terlify the whites and cause tbem to leave the Territory. The Hualapais are also hostile. An attempt to bring them intoa peaceful eon-dition failed, in consequence of the killing of one of their most influential chiefs by whites. The Yavapais, too, have been troublesome and outrageous. All the other tribes are well disposed and making considerable progress in civilization. Their claims upon the government for protection and a liberal provision of the means required for their more rapid advancement are just and pressing. Ample appro-priations should be made to enable the department to place all upou reservations, to introduce the benefits of schools, and to help them to acquire a practical knowledge of the illdustrial arts. The Golorado river reservation has not so far been very successful, yet it is believed, with additional aid from Congress, it can be maae a suitable Lome for many of the tribes. It will not do, however, to withdraw the Indiansfrom their hunting grounds unless adequate provision is made for them on the reservation. I n the northeast of Arizona live the Moqnis Pueblos, about 3,000 in number, reported to be in a wretched condition. Last summer a gross outrage was com-mitted upou them by a party of q e d Mexicans, who killed several of their people, took captive a "umber of the women and children, besides driving off many of their sbeep. By the prompt movement of Agent Ward, in charge of the Pueblos in New Mexico, the captives and most of the property were recovered. The offenders being known, steps are being taken to have them arrested, tried, and punished. UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. The rstimated number of Indian3 in t h i ~eu pcrijitendency is 25,000,c omprising many banda or tribes uf 1:tabd atrJ Sl~osl~r,news,i th n few Rant~ockn. As with monr tribes in other portion8 of thc hdir~eu untry,?~it is with these-they are |
