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Show NEW MEXICO SUPERINTENDENCY. 159 ammonitioii articles very scantily and mostly not at all finpplied amoug annuirie~. h e r y yew nombers of them bring me arms needing repairs, funds tbr which ~~urposI ua m not supplied mth; henre 1 Ii~vte*i ther to nupplp them from private means, which I du uot think the salary of this ottiee justitirn, or I have U, refusr them :altogether. I am, very iespeotfully, your obedient servant, LUTHER MBNN, JR., U. T.. Indian Agmt. Hon. F. H. HEAD, &perintendent Indian Affairs, 6alt h k e Cihy, Utah. NEW 3IE!XICO SWERINTENDENCY. OFFICE SUPER~TENDENINT DIAaFN~d lRs , SantalG, N. X, September 15, 1868. SIR: In the absence of Superintendent Luther E. Webh, and in obe-dience to instructions received at this office from the Indian department, I have the honor to submit the following as the annual report for 1868, New Mexieo superintendency. I shall endeavor to state briefly the con-dition of the Indians and Indian affairs during the past year. It is gratifying to be able to inform the department that few if any depreda-tions have been committed by Indians under the control of this super-intendency. Yet complaints have been made against the Apaches of the Cimarron. and the anent made everv effort to ascertain who the guilty parties' were, but f%led to place thk guilt upon any of them. Nevertheless I am inclined to believe that they did commit several de~redationsd uring the time the Navaioes were en route to their new redermrion. The ~ P l , o r t ~ ~~~v~asith t vyb rable and they took advantage of it, aud ever~thiugfitolrui> nm the viriire~~wsa scharged to the Xavajoes. I mi a:~tisticd that the Narnjoes srolc and destn~yed less, while p:axsing thong11 the nettlcments to their ncn rrservntion west of the Rio Grnude, th;~un .(111l<u1 e ulumu uf the tianie uumber of' soldiel.n. I t h;~nI I ~ P I I aud is the uulic:!. of tl~c.a overumeur to da1.e the ~(itl'erenrt ril~rso f J i~~l ini~s up011 k.seel.\.atious a d i f 11os5ible &kc them husmiu and ~ ~ ~ l ) l I)I(WtIrIIt-st. l\.es. 'I'herrfu~rI \vonld resl~uctfullvr crolnmmll that rest:rvations he selected for e\.cr.v tribe of Iudinns in New 3fryico. nod t11:1t rhes be plncccl therl:o~~il,i order to pvt5vcntr beu~f rom nonlnini about r h c c o ~ h t r ~ dc.predutil~go l~onth e flocks aud h ~ r doif ' the peoj,le; aud to m:~liet liein ev~!ur~~s;e~llt:lsyu stail~ing mj policg noul~bl e to locate each tribe upnil a aell-delincd rewrvtition ill their o~vue uul~tryw, hc.re rhey have always lived, aud trherr they wuuld be co~ltente~ifl ,a ny pli~cet,o 1)lnnt and cnlti-vato the tioil. Permit settlers to locate all nruuud the reserratiuns. th:rt t11r.r mu1 sc? the brnefit derived from il~dustrynndp ~ud~ioift a b~iculhur; null hy estaWisliing auhu~lsu lwu t.;lclr rescrvutiou to educilte their chil-dren, they 11il1e el.rniuls bccon~ec ivilized 3ud cltrisrianizrd sooner t l~au thev'wodd if ulaced tbeether in larae numbers uuon one reservation. awiy from thek old co&try, where %hey would b e ooutinually cluarred ling and fighting among& themselves. I cannot see the obiect in mov-iuiIndians fromNew Mexico into Colorado. Utah. or auv other Territorv. d e s s the government actually requires the co&try occupied by thegi moving is cert,ainly more expensive. |