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Show 234 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF IBDIAN AFFAIRS. I have, since my arrival here, erected a log building for storehouse, and shall erect suitable stables for the government stock this fall. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. W. GRAFFAM, First Lieutenant V. A'. Army, Indian Agent. . Brevet Colonel J. E. TOIJRTELLOTTE, U. 8. Army, Snp't Indian Affairs, Utah Territory. NEW MEXICO SUPERINTENDENCY. No. 4%. SANTAl% , NEW MEXICO, August 20,1869. SIR : In accordance with instructions from your office dated May 27, directing me to make up and transmit to your office the annual report, &c., for the time intervening between the date of the last report and the time when I was relieved as superintendent of Indian affairs for New Mexico, (July 31,1869,) I have the honor to submit the following: The Indians comprising this finperintendency are in nearly the same condition as represented in the last annual report, and there are no hopes of a change for the better until Congress appropriates a sufficient sum for placing each tribe on a reservation. Therefore my report will be necessarily short. As it is the avowed policy of government to plaee all of these Indians ou reservations, I am of the tkm belief that all of the Indians of this Territory can be persuaded, and in faetmish to go on reservations--that is, each tribe by itself; and in that particular I would most re.spectfully refer you to the reports of the different agents in this Territory, espe-cially the reports of Agents John Ayres, of the Abiquiu agency, and my special report of December 30,1868. The tribes comprising this superintendency are hue in number. The different tribes or bands of Utes speak the same language, also tbe,different tribes of Apaches, but they have different chiefs, and have, since knom to this government, lived separate, and would be more easily controlled and by nature more happy to have each tribe placed on a separate reservation, with an agent for each. The Navajoes need at least seven agents. The number of Indians in this Territory is as follows : Nazajoes ................................................. 7,700 CapoteUtes .............................................. 300 Webinoche Utes .......................................... 700 Maquache Utes ........................................... 484 JicarillaApaches ......................................... 788 Mescalero Apaches.. ...................................... ,535 Min~bresA paches proper .................................. 800 Gila and Mogollou Apaches.. .............................. 800 Pueblos .................................................. -7,'000 Total .............................................. 1-9,097 As it is now conceded by all that it is cheaper to feed than to fight Indians, I can see nothing to be done or to recommend until Congress |