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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIQNER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 17 I readily engage in the various kinds of labor required for their support, . and are quite successful, but they are averse to making improremetits through an uncertainty as to their remaining in permanent possession of them. Only three hnndred remain on the farm, many haring left and gone haek to their old homes on Owen's River. Of &he Mauaeha tribe, many left because of their losing one-third of their number the past ye8.r by measles, and it is thought by the agent, unless measures are taken to prerent them, the remainder will follow. General Ord, Uuited States Army, commanding the department of California, has given orders to have them returned. JIissourd and Coal~udlaI ndia.%sh ave no reservation; the former, about three thousand in number, are scattered over San Bernardino, San Diego, and other counties in the southern part of the State, and the latter, whose number is not less than three thousa,nd, live in the Sau Jacinto Mountains, The condition and wants of these Indians have been fre-quently brought to the consideration of the department and adverted to in previous annual reports. Xothing, however, has been done for their benefit, further than to send to their country a special agent to oversee them. With a view to ascertain particularly as to their number, loca-tion, and disposition, to be brought more immediately under the charge of the department, the superintendent, General NcIntosh, was instructed during the past summer to visit them and see where a reser-vation could be located for their use. In the report of the superinteud-ent, which is among the papers herewith, the opinion is expressed tha,t most of them would be willing to concentrate at some suitable locality a.nd ellgage in agriculture and pastoral pursuits ; otbers would dislike such an arrangemelit, as they are doing well, but if the government de-cides it best they will assent. A reservation ciau be set apart for them upon land in and west of San Pasqua.16 Valley, which would be suffi-ciently large for a home for all the Indians in the southeru part of Cali-fornia, including those at Tule River fann. It is recommended that the subject be brought to the attention of Oongress the coming session? in the hope of favorable and prompt legislation, whereby the department may be enabled, at an earl^ date to effect the greatly desired object. The whole number of Indians iu Ea~torniah as heretofore been reported at thirty thousand, but this is believed to be an over-estimate, t.here probably not being more than twenty thousand. Oongress should be very liberal toward this people, inasmuch as they are regarded as hav-ing no recognized rights in the country. They have of late years been peaceable, and it is no more than just, in view of their having quietly yielded to the whites a country so wealthy in its varied resources, that -our government should deal generously with them in providing a suffi-ciency of means for their relief and improvement. I NEVADA. I Superintendent Papker reports of the Indians in his charge that they are in a better condition than ever before, and the past, Fear marked by no hostilities on their part toward the whites; of the murders and out rages commit.ted in the State, more, he believes,. are the acts of nhites than the Indians. The improved state of affalrs he attrihntes to the progress of the Indians toward civilization, and the rapid settlement of a better class of citizens, whose example is an incentive to the Indian to change his habits j as duo to the well directed efforts of the agent. There are from twelve to Mteen thousand Indians, and three resep-vatinns in the State for Indian occupancy, known as Walker River and 2 1 A |