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Show for the resident Indians, who have not raised crops sufflcient for their necessities. The report from agent at Uintah Valley reservation hasnot xet been received. No schools have ever been established for the benefit of any Indians in this superintendeucy. Furs and skins furnish to Indians their principal source of wealt'h in this superintendency. Such wealth is becoming less each year. Nearly all the oxen and cows they possess were given to them by the Government. They generally do not care for cows for their milk, but for increase, which they usually preserve with care. During the past year the Indians have been quiet and peaceable. Oc-casionally horses or oxen have beenstolen, but not often by Indians within this Territor~. Many of these Indians have been active in recovering and returning stolen cattle to their proper owners. People of the south-ern frontier settlements complain of depredations by the Navajoes and by certain Utes from Colorado. During part of the gear citizens have kept, at considerable expense, armed guards with their herds in the southern part of the Territory. I t is not easy to determine how predatory bands of Indians can be kept out of the superintendellcy. The number of Indians varies from the statement in liist year's report. This arises from the fact that I have during the year had some means of ascertaining the strength of the several tribes. Last year's statement was fouuded upon thebest information I could get during the short time I had been here. There has been considerable decrease in the number of Illdinus from natural callsea. As a \vl~alvt he condition nf 111rliaiisin tliis superintcndeurs 1s snti3f;lc. tory. With a proper use of such appropriations as bave heretofore been made, and with proper encouragement to the Indians in agricultural pursuits, I believe, in a few years the necessity of Government supplies to nearlv all of these Indians will cease. I hav; the honor to be, rery respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. TOURTELbOTTE, B'w't Col. U. 9: A,,. Suoerintendent Indian Affairs. A Hon. E. S. PARKER, Commis8wner Indian A$airs. NEW MEXICO SUPERINTENDENCY. No: 42. OFFICE ~UPERINTENDENTO F INDIAANF FALRS, Santa 3'6, iVm Mexico, September 14,1870. SIR: I have the honor t,o submit (in compliance with regulations) my second annual report, togetber with t,he report of the several agents connected with this superintendency. It will be seen by the report of Lieutenant Cooper, agent for the Pueblos, that these people are entirely self-supporting, and the only complaint is encroachments upon them by the Mexicans; a complaint that I cannot well see hov to avoid, as they have lived so long in close proximity that it is very hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. There have been a great many cases of different kinds brought before me during the past year: sometimes it was cutting timber; at others |
