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Show REPORT OF COM31ISSIONER OF INDIAB AFPAIRS. 57 \VII.LT 3IUST BE DOXE TO KEEP THEM ON TUE RESERT.kTIOS. They must be ta~ightt o farm, and, in the mean time, snpporte11, to cuable t h r x to absndou their nomntlio habits: Already a "urnbar of the Indians have been induced to ealtirnte little lmtehes of ground, and if a proper provision oould be made to carry on tlds mark ?or a veil\- icir-years, they wanld become self-supportiug. They s h o ~ ~alldso have house8 built. As long as no Indinu h%. n rent he ran more his borne from t,ime to time at will, bot induoe him to live in a esbiu and his home ia fixed. A nllmber of these Utes informed your commissioners thnt they~lcsirrdro hare houses, aud their agent, Mr. Critchelow, confirms this. Many of the better class of Indians are acc~imulatingso me property in enttie. Two or three have as manv as fiftv h e 4 each. and it is vera noticeable that those rrho hnrr NEED OB A GOOD ROAD TO THE UINTTIR Y,\LLET. One of the serions difficuities on this agency is the want of a good road by which to rexh the settlements. Supplies are now hauled over the Uiutsh Ilanntaios, croasiug difficult sud rapid streams again and again, and the toad is trsveletl with muoh labor and grent expense. A road aan be made from the agency to Grben X i ~ e rS tation, or to wrne point farther to the eat, at less &st than to build a road over the Wasatoh Mountains to Salt Lake City, the road now traveled. And t,hera ~ o n l dbe other sdvantaoes, in thnt the road to the northeast oould be uocd in winter nurl the distnurf to the r2poal1 ahortar. PAH-YANTS. The Pah-vn~~tnan,d er the chieftaincy of Kanosh, n~lmher1 34. The? spanli the s:tule language as tho Utes of Uintah Valley, ~sooiallya ffiliate with thorn, are intermarried with them, iud sometimes join them in their hunting esco~%ioas. They ghoolcl be taken to the reservation a t Uiutah, their number being too small to r r a~mntth e estnh-lishment of a. separate reservation for their benefit. They have showu themselves somewhat averse to removing to that plxe, but thl.ough Kanosb, thsir chief, have finally agreed that if the Preskdent of the United States insisrs an their going, and mill assist them to become farmers, they a- willing to try what em be done. ICnnosh is s man of ability. He lives in a honee which was built for him By a former superinteudont of Indian nffaiw for Utoh, and, in part, adapts t.be habits of oirilize4 life; bnt his people live ahietly by gathering seeds, hunting, and begging, though they raise a little wheat and corn. This year they cultivated ahant thirty acres of he st, which rieldad a vexypoor harvest. No Iudims iu all the territory 1.1sited by your cammission have, in past years, rr-oeivetl one-quarter of the amount of gootls, in proportion to their numbers, as the Psh-vnnts, and t,his ganerons treatment on the psrt of the Goverurneut has added to the iu-floence of ICmush, for be has thus proved to the surrounding tribes his ability toinflu-enoe the Government offioials, snd he is their admiration and envy; and they have .learned to consult him, to a grent extent, concerning all their deelinga with the offioers of the Indian Department. There areoiroomstanca connected mith his relation to thehlormonChureh that map lead him to refuse to go. In woh a case he should be eompellad with any force that may be necessary. Before such a course is taken, the Government should provide the menus by which ~ n e hre nluval ~voulda oorue to the bencfit of hiin sntlhis people. GO-SI UTES. The Go-si Utes number 460. They inhabit a district of country west of Utah Lalie and Groat Sslt Lake, on the line betweau Utah and Nevada, a p u t being in the Terri-tory and a part in the State. These Indians are oorgianised into n confederacy, nuder tbe cllieftaincy of Pi-su'- atup. More than my ot,her Indians visited by the cornmis8ion;these Go-si Zites are ei~lti-vating the soil and working farwhite men. Pi-ad-nump, n,ho is e brother of Kauorh. chief of the Pah-vants, is proud to claim that he earns his own living. Seoruiug to beg, he is milling to work, and while he is not able to induce all hisludinns to take t.he same course, yet his influence is entirely for good. His people ore scattered in very sum11 bands, cclltivating the soil abont little spring3 |