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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 53 is accessible oi~lyf our ino~~tihus t he year, and eren then only by a road wl~iehin all ordiuary rouutry would bodeemed impassable. Only 20,000 acres,in scattered patches, separated by streamsand rocks,aresusceptible of cultivation, and even this laud is of inferior qua lit^. The Indians, however, for the past two years have been much interested in farm-ing. Thq have cultivated during the year 225 acres, an increase of 175 acres since 1871, and their crops consist of 1,500 bushels wheat, 450 hoshels corn, 1,500 bushels potatoes, besides turnips, squashes and beans, which, compared with those of 1871, show an increase of 400 per cent. This, owing to the disadvantages under which they labor, represents a large amount of hard work. Fifty thou-sand feet of lumber have been sawed; poles for 600 rods of fence have been cut, hauled, and laid by the111dians themselves for the first time, and without any remuneration for their labor. -4 school-house is now in process of erection. rnYADA. WALI~ERI VERA GENCY.-About 800 Pah- Utes are located on two res-ervations in Western Nevada, called the Walker River and P~ramid Lake reserves, eighty miles apart, containing, including the-lakes, 320,000 acres each, of which only 2,700 acres are susceptible of cultiva-tion by irrigation. A canal two and one-halt' miles long was due by the Indians at Walker Eiver last year. The first serious effort in farm-ing was made 10 1872, only 50 acres being reported under cultivation in 1871. From the first all supplies have been issued only in return for labor. During the year just closed the Indians have cultivated 900 acres and broken 200. The crops consist of 1,800 bushels wheat, 110 bushels corn, 1,550 bushels barley, and 550 bushels potatoes. Nearly every acre available for tillage has been fenced and claimed by families for permanent l~omes; 1,500 rods of fencing have been built during the year. Many of the farms present a fine appearance. One Indiau has not only raised enough for his own subsiste~icea nd for seed, but by sale of the surplus has paid for help in harvesting and thrashing, and has $76 in coin left. The trout-fisheries on these reserves are very valuable. Besides a large amount coi~sumed by themselves, the In-dians have sold during the gear nearly 62,000pouuds of fish, for which they have received about $7,000 in coin. These Indiaus all wear citi-zen's dress ; they are asking for houses and schools, and are fast becom-in.@ a civilized communitv. The Pjmmid l.:~lze rcaer~fi~ticooi~ii,t ail~ii~bpu t 1,200 news of arablo land, hasnl\\.a,ys bcw ki~uwia~s and occupied by tho I'alr-Utes an an Indian reservntiun. Al l tlicir I:~bure x~,ei~tleidn l l~atk nciuu aud colti. L. vnri~iyth ese 1;2UO aen2s,i l l innking flumes, irriy~~tiugditchiclisld bridges and i n b~iildii~I yI O I I ~ ~ J ,h as i~owb rco~neato tal loss t o t b r s ~Iu dinus,(~rho are a quiet, peaoeable,'industrious tribe, and would have soon become wholly self-supporting,) and the whole tract of country has been ruined and rendered utterly worthless as an Indian reservation by reason of the grant to the Central PaciGc Railroad, as provided in the act of Con-gress 8pproved July 2, 1874. (Stats. at Large, vol. 13, p. 356.) S Q U ~ E A SNTEY ADAA GENCY.-The Pai-Utes? in Southern Nerada and Southeastern California, numberingrespeotirely 1,031 and 181, with 284 Utes in Northern Arizona and 528 in Utah, belong on a reserration containing 3,900 square miles in the southeastern part of Serada, set apart by Executive order March l2,1Yi3. Only about 500 hare as yet removed, owing partly to lack of funds for the pl~rchase of supplies |
