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Show I oerson be ordered by the aeent to accom.o an.v them, whose duty it shall be to see that they do )lor rolnt in co1li;iuu svGl. BUV of ILC o~h.:r t8iiw.i. I Jesirr lo i . . ) l l ( ' : l l l t l l~f l~ !It(. 1)) 111111111,111 111) 1!1 the .nc:csr of its innnap-U.PSo~f Itl bis service in Cvlvrddo. an1 1 h.ttc tbe ~ i e n ~ u r r o i e : h , ~ o-~ "~ irci al ~nitltii~urr n ranrze:v.d uJ .o rm,. ~ ~ . me s ~ of its officers. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J.4MES B. THO>lPSON. I L'nitod Stales Special hcdian Agent. r . r s ArFnms, If'aslrin#ton, D. C. Los Prsos AGEKCY, September 10; 1874. Sln : I have the honor to submit the following report. The report must neeessnriiy be eoufiurd to information obtained dnring the single month of my administration here, and to suggestions diffidently made on scoouut of my brevity of aequaiotaoee with these Iodisnq and the affair* of the agenoy. I found the buildings, for the moat pwt, in good oondicion. The house for the agent oan hardly be surpassed for comfort, convenience, and neatness oo any other spency. On acoonnt of my ~edeesssar's long expectation of my wrivsi, which was uusvoidabl~~ delayed, the Indians Kid been for ~sverawl eeks scantily supplied with provisions. At about the time of my arrivsl, however, 51 seoks af flour oeme, which were quickly issued. A little larger amount of suppli~sth an usual in the two or three first issues seemed to satisfy them. Evidently some of them did not like s change of agent, and they are dissatisfied n.ith the treaties; but there is no oomplaint whatever to be made of their behavior. Oumy and sev-. era1 of his chiefs plainly say that itis neither right nor for their interests to have any trouble. with the Government. While the Government ia obiigod to use force sgsinst other tribes. the almost uriivarsal opinion of the Colorado people that thag never wiil have to do soagainst the Utes is certainly worth something. The dissstisf&cti~nwithth e tresties is nothing new.' While many of the chiefs understand, and did understand while making thelast two treaties, the boundaries bv straight lines, and thst some of the farming-lands might be included in the portion ceded to the Government, others probably did cot ao uuderstand it; and these make trouble whicll it may be difficult to dley, thou h there can hsrdiy be aug dawrer ofsn out brosk from it. But ~reeiseivb ecause the ofi inns of this tribe are oexcenbl; inoiiued.. it urwns ju.1 ,u,dproprr tllnl rl~eGnvrr~~~mxl!leworl~~ ii ~..ar:irit,>u*IS, pmor' LVIII P r : , I I ~ l ~ ~ . T a l l x i ~ ~ treatie* rnll tur, if LOI L~IOT... \\-hen the Lttrt n,:rirr ine It,>ries aurl <:run tury hare r.xlltcte8i U T ~ C l~a., rwxt~. t l~ensil 1 J o u b ~ I e *i,,~el rn~~r.~~,,n.!,.,~r.~ri. readily find. Accustomed to look dpan thekegrand mounthi6 actheir lend-marks, they beed something more than small stones,insoribed however legibly-mounds, perhaps, and not less than tiwee or fom feet high. The Irtes beirlgsuspicious that GunnisonTown,s liew settlement about five miles from the agency cattle-camp, was on the reservation, I, with one of the settlers and another bsn, spent thegreeter part of a day insearching the monuments of Dsrling's sur-veiof the aaslarn boundary of the reservation, of which I lmve received from Wsahiugton a. copy o f the field-notes. The lay of the oauutry so corresponded w ~ t hth e description in the surveyors' notes, sud the assertion by Mr. Wilson, of Mr. Wheeler's surveying expedition, thst the line was three or four miles west of our herding-camp, satisfiodns that we ware in about the right place; but we oould see none of the monuments, although they and their location wexs mioutei~ described. 1 ~'ound ox. my ~r~i;al nr r1.c nneoly n hnl-l,cd. wirll rcry little i n ir,nnl a small ps~elt of OHImS~.k i1.gI I e\.idtuI lilal 1I1..1e $18- wry little (.ullldge lerc abmt r.g.riallturc. 'I'bl. oats, Luaover. It #,lied vrrv ~ r o niri an. snsi I \ \ .nie~t~ourbz1~0 d~ l a ni" my (18i~Idhe ruilivnli.,o of seversi aores next aim-mer; but on the Sd of this m$th tbkre came k heavy frost, so that we found ice n quarter of an ineh thick. The oats, which were juat filling, were destrqpad. Meanwhile there were brought to me from the new settlement on the Gunnison, nesr the oro-posed sight for the agency,%ame very good pohtoes, turnips, snd beets-very oomplete'evi-I d.e nce that some years, if not all, some o f the most important srtioies offood could be raised there. And now in regard to changing the location of the agency. I hwe il.lrzady written to the Commissioner that the proposed location is not the proper one. The raising of the crops above mentioned, however, oanvioees me t h ~ tit . is not so uofn-vorable as I had supposed, and a eaoferenoe with Ouray, the heed-chief, satisfies me that it is the bast to wlrioh tile Indians wiii at present consent. It may, therefore,be \\--ell to erect good. but inexpensive adobe buildings, wilh tire hope sitst before a great many yenra no serious objection wiil be ,made to removing to s warmer situstion in the hes1.t of thc reservs. tion. 18 1 m |