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Show 20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. be seen or tested. Much of the work on the canal has been done br the Indians, who seem to be encouraged, and indulge in the hope that their reservation will be made productive by this means, and afford them a desirable home. Superintendent George L. Andrews, Brevet Colonel United States Army,,reports the condition of affairs to be unfavorable at the time of his vi s~tto the reservation lately; only about eight hun-dred Mohaves were there, and but forty acres in cultivation. The riser not having overflowed as usual last spring, but little has been raised by the river tribes ; about two tl~ousandM ohaves in the valley were more for t~~naatned shared their substance with those on the reserve. He is of the opinion that when the canal is completed many who are now outside will go upon the reservation. There are four tribes in the agency, inhabiting the country 'long the Colorado River from Fort Yuma to the northern boundary of the Territory: the Pumas, numbering two thousand, Yavapais or apache Mohaves, two thousand, Mohaves, four thonsand, and Hualapais, ateen thousand, all of whom are now peaceable. Mopuis P.fieblo Indians, living in the northeast part of the Territory, are a people of no ordinary interest, if we regard their isolated position, ro-mantic traditions as to their Welch origin, and peculiar manners and customs. They number about four thonsand, and are reported as more familiar in the useful arts and further advanced in civilization than a.ny Indians in the Territory. We have had but little knowledge of them, and at no time have they been bronght specially under the charge of an agent of the government. At times they have been despoiled of their property by Mexicans, and suffered at the hands of the Navajoes. Believing that this community of friendly Indians should receive more attention from the government than hitherto bestowed, a special agent was appointed the past summer to visit them and exercise such oversight of their interest and rights as might be proper. No report has yet been received from that agent, as he hits had barely time enough by this date to reach their country. In addition to the tribes in this superintendency named in the foregoing remarks, there are other Indian tribes, that sou~etimesra nge in the Territory or are frequently in it, but who belong to other Territories, as the Pi-Utes of Nevada,, Navajoes of New Mexico, and Cocopas of the State of Sonora, Mexico, the latter living at the mouth of the Colorado, and having no intercourse with the Mexicans, but are friendly and servicable t,o Americans: UTAH. Since the last annual report of this office, the Eastern Shoshones, with the Bannacks ard Shoshones, have been transferred to the Wyoming superintendency. There is now but one reservation in the superintendenc~foIrn dian occupancy, that of the Uintah, inarea nearly eighty miles sqnare, which was set apart in 1861, and provided to be permanent by .act of Congress of May 5,1864. It contains a sufficiency of pasture and agricultural lands, with streams affording good supplies of fish. The illtention was to place all the Utah Indians upon it, and with this object in view a treaty was entered into with the different tribes in 1865, by Superintendent Irish, but which today remains uurati-fied, although several of my predecessors have urged definite action upon it by the Senate. A farm was opened there in 1866,tnd a number of the Indians have gone in and are to some extent labonng to support themselves. For want of means the purposes designed in setting apart the reservation have beenbut partially accomplished, not more than about gteen hundred Indians being located upon it. If it be de. |