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Show 228 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDUX AFFAIRS. The following table exhibits the area of land cultivated by Indians during the uresent season, with the amount and value of the crops: ciapa. Am-. Boahels. Vslne. --- Whaat ................................................................. 151 Q7lO $15 810 Pot&toe.s. .................................................................. 32 5,PW ll:4W Corn ........................................................................ 34 2.440 8.480 Turnips .................................................................... 35 4.8W 7,800 Oats 6 240 480 Vegetsbllos, &a. ............................................................ -20 -..........- 2,00 0. TOMS.. ................................................................................ 45,980 The following table exhibitsthe area of .land cultivatkd to different crops by each tribe: lYibes. IWheat./ Corn I PotatoeB.l Tnrniw,/ Oats I VegetBb1e8, &. uintsha.. ............................. Pah-vents.. ..................... ;. .... western Shoshones Deep L%ek ..... Westem shoabones,' Roby VaJley .... Shoshone Cwlhi$ ..................... Pi-Edas in Soo ern Utah ............. Totals. .......................... The ten Mres of land so\ved to turuips by Goships was tho same land 11re~ious1.svo wn1 by them to wheat, which crop ot' wheat w: ~ se utiroly destroyed by grasshoppers. - Had no) the crops been raised at the various points by Indians, their provisions must have been hauled to them from the nearest settlements. At the Uintah reservation, and at Deep Creek and Ruby Valley, the cost of such transportation would have exceeded the firstcost of the articles. In estimating the value of the crops I have estimated what would have been their cost delivered at the various points from the nearest market. EDUCATION AXD WEALTH. No schools have ever been established amon-g an-y bf the tribes within . this superintendency. The principal wealth of the Indians is in ponies and cattle. The cat-tle have been principally given them within the past two years, and in almost every instance the Indians have kept their cattle, guarding their increase with good care. The number of ponies md cattle owned by the different bands is as follows: Goships ................................................................. 50 10 .......... Pair-usnts 1.. .......................................................... 160 8 Uintah Utes ......................................... .......... 1 1,200 1 2 d 1 65 - ~ 1,770 ponies, amrage vdae, 830 .......................... . r .................................... W 100 387 rattle, averqe vane, 840 ................................................................ 15,480 81 gaata, average d o e , $4. ............................ ..: ............................ -324 |