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Show 546 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. els of wheat, 1,200 bnshels of corn, 1,500 bnshels of potatoes, 3,000 bnsh-el8 of turnips, and 240 busliels of oat8, and vegetables worth $1,000, the value of all these vast products estimated atthe snug sum of $29,980. Now any one at all familiar with the former and present condition of this agency will be utterly at a loss to account for its present retro graded condition. The fact is that this amount of tillable land and its S n ~pt r o(luets never exisce(1 un this agent)., exeept OII paper wutl in t l ~ a fertile imagiuatiu~o~f tbose \rho peuuetl those report$. 1 tbel vou. . pelled, iu justice u, msself and the ~uzu under my charre, to make this itatemen6 inasmuch i s my ow11 report will, iu EompaGs'on with these romances, appear at a great disadvantageperfectly insipid. About 15 acres of new land have been brought under cultiva,tion t i~isy mr, and the yhole amount cultivated by Indians and employ6s is estimate& at 85 acres, a few acres of the old land being left out. I say estimated, for we .have no means of acet~rattlya scertaining the precise number of acres. This agency being so broken by streams and patches of rocky land unfit for cultivation, it would be abost impossible, even with chain and compass, to ascertain the precise amouut, aud for these reasons a vast amount of fencing has to be done to secure a small amouut of till- - , able land. My attention mas first directed, after putting up one new log.house for use of employ6s, to a preparation for putting in a crop. There being not over 20 acres feuced. and that oulv oartiallv: m% imme- ~~ ~ diately co~~;menerd eutriug, h:iuliny, And lajing ol; bolus, rEI;airing 0141 itnd ma k i u~ne w feurea. 11;1viugt o haul t l~eu 1:itclial u om rxro to tlrrrc u~ilcti. \Ye hdve built over three miles of f ~ u c e ; ~uuse~dl :~l to~e t lo~veer 10,000 ~ o l eisn its constrrtctiou, requiring a vast a,mount ofulabor a& time. Being short of provisions and seeds to pla~~It. d, etermined if possible to procurethem from Salt Lake City. With this view I start.ed my ox-team for thecity on the 20thof'March; some saying I could, while others said I could not, get through the mountains. After over three weeks of laborious and severe eforts, being compelled to leave my teain in the mountains, I made my way to Salt Lake City, by way of Eeber City and Provo, directing my teamskr to folloa as soan as possible. After several weeks more, my driver having to return to t,he agency for provisions, my team got to the city, and, procuring some supplies, I returned to the agency, arriving here about the27th of May. Though .exppsive both in valoable time and in mohey, I gained much inhrwa- .tion and experience which I hope to make available in the future. I ;.directed Mr. P. Dodds, whom ,I left in charge, to plant all the seed^ .on hand, and plant for and aid the Indians in their erops, several of ithAm haviuesoine seed of their own. The result is that sex-era1 of then1 .Ii;tve r~i se~z ~ 1 1 s i d per~od~t~br1rb, ~ut theircro~h~as w sufii.r~1u1~ uelli~om the want 01' ti.ncing, their ia~nt~i ila~ngd being so sci~tt(.rcdw e \yew r ~ ~ ~ a bti,l ef e ~ ~ eit ca ll. \Via sowed so~uoo ath. barlev. b~~vkwhrant t1 turnips, mcl planterl fionie other vegetables, iifer 111;';irriv;11li .om S ~ l t 1.al;e City. 80 as to war tbr soil and eliu~ntefotrh e varioud f ) r~d u c t i o l~~; ancl from'liresent anmaranee8 of the various crops I aln very much elleo~~~agaeucdi lcli;ce, tl~ougl;a t drst I was in d611l1tr, hak tliu c:~p;t- I~ilirieso f this vall4.~.f or agricnlt~lral~ ~orpodaersc equal tu any ill tile Territorv. Its ellief excullcnce. howevrr. id ill icd uutritiou~E rn'IseS aud adalitadility to grazing, cattltj keeping in h e condition &ring the winter upon the pasturage. . The first re~uisitesfo r farming sncoessfnUy on this agency are ditches and fences. All thelauds cultivated arenecessarily, from the situation of tbe agency,in detached patches,aud theditchestemporary andinsufficient, aild though water isabundaut mdacces8ible, yetmuchlabor and judgment |