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Show WYOrnG. SHOSHONAEG ER'OY.-A reservation containing one and one-half mil-lion acres in Wind River Valley was set apart by treaty in 1868 for the Shoshones, then vagrants and roamers in Wyoming. No attempt to carry out the provisions of the treaty were made until the fall of 1870, when an agency was established. In 1871 and 1872 buildings were erected, an agency farm cultivated, and every exertion made to induce the Indians to commence an aericultnral life. In 1873. convinced at last that the Co~~crnn~eIrnant itncere ill its ~ ~ r o ~ ~(t;Ii' saesss i ~ t i ~7~91~ Sc h~o, s l~o~~decided to arttlc do\vn on tho reser\.atiol~a nd ~iinkct heir tirdt atrellil~t at farming. Men, women, and children worked industriously, a separate piece of ground being assigned to each family, and a bountiful harvest mas the result. Inspired by this example, 216 others req~~estecthl at similar assistance be rendered tt~elat he followi.~, ~"v ea r. These Indians have, wit11 frw ex~~eptiollrac,m niuefl 011 tllu ugt~lf.,a~n, d alllriug thr. 11.tqt p a r Ilnve cultivnted :IUO acres and hrol;rl~ 2s ; but ;ill tlie crop, errcqot potatoes, was severely damaged by grasshoppers. and they will harvest but 500 bushels each of wheat and oats, and 3,000 bushels of potatoes. They own 2,500 horses and 200 head of cattle, and have cut 78 tons of hay. Fifteen log-houses built during the year arc occupiod by Indians, and manv more are asked for. In education but little interest has been ~~ ~~ ~~~ excited. "IU nrder,neatness, and general health theimprovement among these people is marked, and they are rapidly increasing in numbers. COLORADO. LO$ PIN09 AND.WHITER IVERA GENCIES.--The Ute8 in Oolorado have a reservation of 18,320 square miles, of which only a small proportion in the vallejs of t.he Gunnison and Uncompagre are suited to agriculture. A large tract of nearly 4,000,000 acres of valuable mining-land was ceded by them to the Government in 1873. They are native to this section, and for years have maintained their friendship withtbe whites inviolate. Game is abundant, and they subsist principally by huntiug, the larger portion of them being seen at their agency only on occasionalvisits, and showing as yet no disposition to undertake the labor of tilling th? ground, but, in anticipation of the time when necessity shall force them to abandon their present mode of life, they hold tenaciously to all their farming and grass lands. There are two agencies for this reservation, the Los Pinos, for the Tabeqnache, &Iuaahe, Capoh, and Weeminuche Utes, to the number of 2,763, which at present is located outside of the reserv-ation on a branch of the Grand River, and which, to meet the immediate wants of the Indians, should ba located in accordance with the treaty provisions on the Los Pinos River, and the White River agency, on a river of that name in the northern part., for the Grand River, Yampa, Uintah, and Peah's bands of Utes, to -the number of 1,000, A small school has been opened at each agency, the former with 10 and the latter with 21 pupils. One Ute with his four sons on the Uncom. pagre and nine or ten Weeminuches on the Los Ani~nahs ave, during the year, for the first time, cultivated a few acres and haveraiked fine crops. The Southern Utes own 6,500 horses, 300 cattle, and 1,000 sheep. The Northern Utes own 1,500 horses, 36 head of cattle and mules, and 10C goats. UTAH. UW~AH\' ALLEY AGEXCY.-F~W huntlre,l alld nevcnt)-.five Z't~na n loeatrd on a reserratiou of 3,186 siloare u~ilcs11 1 the Ui~~tali\'aIley,\rhicl |
