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Show a fair supply of horses, but neither cows nor oxen. Their number is three hundred. The Timpauoge Indians formerly resided at and about Spanish Fort reservatiou, but they are now scattered among other bands, and do not now exist as a separate tribe. Nost of these Indians are on the Uintah Valley reservation, and are numbered with the Indians of that agency. The San Piach Indians inhabit the country about the Sau Pete reser-vation. They are migratory in their habits and remain on theland they claim as their own but a small part of the year. They attempted the cultivation of a few acres of laud this year, but their crops were de-. stroyed by grasshoppers. They subsist by means of hunting and of such supplies as they receive from this place. They have some horses, but no cows nor oxen. They number two hundred. The Pah Vant Indians inhabit the country south of the Goship Sbo-shones. They are a quiet band of Indians, and many of them minter-ested in farming. They have cultivated this year forty-two acres of laud, and have raised a fair crop. Their farm was plowed by white labor, as these rndians have no materials for performing such labor. The Indians fenced and irrigated the lands cultivated. They collect large quantities of pine nuts. These Indians have no oxen nor cows, but they have a good number of horses. Their number is eight hundred. The Pi Ede Indians inhabit the country south of the Pah Vauts. These Indians are generally idle and quite poor. They cultivate small patches of land, amounting, in all, to about twelve acres. They subsist upon rabbits, nuts of the piiion tree, and supplies from this place. A few of these Indians might be induced to labor, butmost of them would prefer to suffer from hunger. They have neither cows nor oxen, and have but very few horses. The Pi Edes number six hundred and fifty. The Pi Utes of this superintendency inhabit the southwest portion of the Territory. T$ey are poor and idle. They have no oxen nor cows and but few horses. These Indians cultivate, in a rude manner, about forty acres of land. They subsist for the greater part upon rabbits, nuts of the pEon tree, and supplies from this place. These Indians haxe been of much service to people of the southern frontier settlements in assisting them to recapture stolen horses, and by giving them notice of approaching predatory bands fkom Oolorado and Arizona. They num-ber twelve hundred aud sixty-five. The Yam Pah-Utes inhabit the country south of the Uintah Valley reservatiou. They are migratory, and cultivate no land. They have a ' good supply of horses, but neither cows nor oxen. These Indians sub. c sist mostly by hunting. A few of them cultivate a slnall parcel of land upon the Uintah Valley reservation. They number two huudred and seventy. The Sheberetches iuhabit the country south of the Yam Pah-Utes. They are migratory, and cultivate no land. They have horses, but na other stock. These Indians subsist mostly by hunting, but receive some supplies from the Uintah agency. They number three huudred. The Fish Utes iuhabit the country about Red Lake, south of the She- .. beretches. Thev subsist bv huntin"n and bshine. Thev number two - hundred and tei. The Elk Mountain Utes iuhabit the southeast portion of this Territory.. They receive some supplies from Uintah Valley agency, but, for the most part, subsist by hunting. Their number cannot be accurately as-certained, but they are estimated at one thousand persons. The Elk Mountain Utes, Pish Utes, Sheberetches, and Yam Pah- Utes, are the most wild and disorderly Iudians of this superintendency. |
