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Show 152 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. months in each year. This reduuces the season when supplies can he hauled to the agency to two or three months, and even then the rongh mountain roads render aueh transportation both tedious and expensive. There is not sulXcient game to supply the Indians with food, especially when they labor upon the farm. It is evident, therefore, that without more abundant meal>s it will not be praoticable to locate more Indians u.r n t ~he rese-rvati~on unt~il the farm shall nroduce a sumlusfor their use. ~ 230 long as aepplieri munt he hauled fh& to feed the;^, at an hxpense for trausportation 11ew1.ye qualling rbeirorigin:rl vost, the Inrlia~~eriilu be more economic~allv~ ~ b ~ iel~setmrhrdre . \Vhen sorkir~u.th e lahorinc I ~ J w~ithG the i; family dependents must be fed avera,Zng, probably; three boarders to each laborer. Had the crops been good the present , seaaon, I had designed to remove the Pah-Vents tribe to the reservation next spnng in time for them to put. in their crops; but without additiond means to subsist them for the first six months it will be impraotieable. The trraty made in 1865 by Superintendent Irish with the differeut tribes of Utah Indians contempla.ter1 their early removal to the reserva-tion. I have heretofore repeatedly urged t,hat some action bc had rela-tive to this treaty. It is impossible to make the Indians fully compre-hend the reasou why, when they have observed their part of the treaty, it is not fulfilled on the part of the government. I think the treaty emi-nently just and liberal, and trust it may be ratified; but if it be uot rati-fied, it is desirable that it be rejected, and a new treaty made extinguish-ing the Indim title and providing the means for locating the Indians upon a suitable resenration. Pending the ratification of the old treaty, or the negotiation of the new, anannnal appropriation of at least $20,000, as suggested by Agent Dodds, is necessary. The site chosen for the reservation 1s an excellent one, being entirely isolated from settlements and routes of travel. Agent Dodds is a most , suitable man for the position, being thoroughly familiar mith farming I and stock-raising, and by his devotion to the labors carried forward at the agency, himself aiding and laboring with the Indians, has greatly aided in overcoming the hereditary antipatlfy to 1a,bor characteristic of all the Indian INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. In my last annual report I stated that I had bnt a few days before returned from an interview with the formerly hostile chief Black Ha,wk, who had nromised to a.bstain from fiwther depredations. About two months d;hdequent tu auch rt.11ol.u 1 :I@U visited !>im, :lnd having kept hi9 promise thus f:u, g?ve hun :lnd 111sI ,;lnal 3 eoflsidel~~bn~ne~ oullto f nrestuts. Frun~th at tlme himself and Iris I l~di :~~~( ichoanvdlele ted tl~enl- 'selves in an exemplary manner, Black Hawk having spent the g~eater portion of his time upon the Uintah reservation, and being one of the most industrious Indians in labors connected with the farm. In some of his raids during the years 1865-'6'7, Black Hawk had engaged with him some of the wild Elk Mountain Utes and She-ha-retches. Home of the latter tribe. after Black Hawk had made peace, commenced to steal on their osn a'ecoout, and mnde t \ r ~or~ th rw i.aic1.j kpou the settlm~nltisn Sou Pira eouut~an d n miniug caalp on the 11end-w:~terast ' tllv Sevill river. tier tht. purl~oncofs tealilt~st ock. Tl~rewe hi t~\s% ,erke illr~dl uring the spring and summer by thsse bands. I sent out numerous Indian runners, and also the interpreter at Uintah agency, with Indian gnides, to endeavor to find the hostile Inhans, and at length succeeded in get-ting them assembled in Strawberry valley to meet me. I visited them in the month of August, finding 26 warriors, and about 70 squ~aws and children of the She-ba-retches tribe. My interview with them was very |