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Show UTAH SUPEBINTENDENCY. 153 satisfactory, they having promised to cease entirely dl further depreda-tions. They have done so thus far, and in a few days I shall meet them again upon the Uintah reservation and give them presents. I feel oonfi-dent that no further trouble will be had with them. Black Hawk amm-panied the interpreter, and aided grestly in finding the Indians and inducing them to make peace. With above exceptions, no hostilities or depredations of any character occurred among the Indians within this superintendency since my last report. The prospects for peace in the future are most encouraging. EDUCATION AND WEALTH. No schools or missions of my ch-ter have been established among my of the tribes within this superintendency. Some tribes have a considerable number of ponies, some also a few goats and cattle. The number of each is as follows: 1 Ponies. I Cattle. I Goats. EasternSbashocesoa Banno ek ................................ 700 ........ Northwestero Shoshones .......... ...... .............. 166 30 Western Shoshones .......................................... 90 30 Weber Utes ................................................ 70 5 Gaships .................................................... 50 4 Pah-Vents .................................................. 175 2 Uintah Utes, Ysmp&hU tes, Fish Utes ......................... -I , 200 -100 Totd ................................................ 2,451 171 Ponies ........................................................ 2: nr 30 Csttle ......................................................... ffl 40 &ate ......................................................... 3 -2 01 Total wealth ........................................................ 8-05 'I1 The country occupied by-mauy of the tribes is nearly destituta of game. The eastern Shoshones and Bannocks range during the winter in a country abounding in buffalo, and take annually robes of the value of almost $20,000. They also take considerable numbers of deer and beaver skins. The Indians ranging along the Uintah, White, and Green rivers take beaver and buck skins of the annual value of about $8,000. The value of furs and skins taken by other tribes is about $6,000, mak-ing a total value of $34,000 for robes, skins, and furs, taken by all the tribes. There is a demand among the settlers for home use for all the robes, furs, and skins, and the Indians take them principally to the set-tlements for sale, and receive for them probably more nearly their actual value than in any other portion of the United States. With theinerease of the population the game of every xort disappears, and this resource of the Indians ia becoming less valiiable and reliable every yw. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. In previous portions of this report, and in the accompanying report of Agent Dodds. detailed statements of aericultural ooerations have been @;en. The devastations of the grasshtppers haveit the Uinta!~a geuey and at PahVents farm nearly rendered fruitless the labors at those points, but it is extremely unlikely that the same cause will operate |