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Show 274 REPORT OF TAE COMJIISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. No very great steps toward the establishment of the Utes in agricultural pursuits can be made till the agency can be placed where they will remain the year round; nor till then can these be the greatest success in teaching them the trades and the common branches of sehaolin . The removal to Guonisan River, however, will be some s d v ~ n e ein that diree-tion. I $;me been instructed to employ the ludiaus, and issueratinns in proportion to their work. By the treaties, they consider that they have hiready phid for the provisions and eiothingwhieh are issued, in lands which have been ceded. Still, st the Cunnison Kiver, we might begin by putting in & crop, dividing the land into little patolies, and orging the In-dians to take cure of them, accepting produce for their compensation : and it is pasaible we might get them to sow their gardens also. They might do so the second year if not the first. I t is h d l y a kindness to the race to feed them for a series of yews and then discantinuo, if t h e y a ~ eo at in tbe mean time taught how to take care of thsmseiyes. Tile cattle numbor 811, including six working-cattle. 175 oalves, and 232 yearliap. I have already recommended the pnrehsse of some sheep to supply the place of s Rook which u~lfortunately consisted mostly of wethers, sod vbich were killed for the Indians about a rear since. It is probable that many Indians wouid hard sheep who are not inclined to herd cattle, and it wouid be well to raise these sgainst tlre timo of their demand for then,. I am runnir~gth e saw-mill for n. few days to cut s. little lumber for our own use. IJp to the 31st of August there was dnsehaoi, the Indim camp being about six miles from the agency. Two or three children only cams under the influence of the teacher from time to time. Since that time, however, several lodges have been moved near to us, nod eight or ten have coma with considerable rsaulsrity, and thew is good hope of B snlall boatding-school during the winter. The s eboa l~fla st winter is evidently looked upon as s. failure. and we have therefore much prejudice to overcome. Even tlie more intelligent obiefa say, L'School good for white man. no good for Indian." The made of issuirlg beef now practiced is bsrbarous. The poor steers are let out of the eorrd for the Indians on horsabsck to hunt them down, and they often chase them, fl.ight-ened and wonnded, for miles, and are in no baste to put them out of misery. It is not car-tain that the Indians would readily give up the aport; but it would tea& them humanity, and be a mercy to the boasts, if the Governmeat would rovide butchers. During the month ofAugust tile agency was visited gy four surveying parties, three be-longing to Professor Hayden's expedition and one to Lieutenant Wheeler's. Last year, when there was a special opportunity of a count, during the oonnoil for making a treaty, the whole number of Indians belonging to this sgenc.7 was reported 2,663. It is sad that they have inoreased about 100. Many of the Utes have been granted permission to go to the plsins to hunt b~rffaloes. They will returu here in the spring. One Ute, with four sons, oultivatated about one acre with spades and hoes. in Uaconlpagre Valley, very suoeessfully this senson, mising corn nnd melons and bringing samples tn the agency. Nine or ten Wemimuches are reported to have met with like success on the Las Animas. Their example will probably be followed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. F. BOND, L'nited States Indiun Agent. Ron. E. P SMITH, L'ammissionerojI~dianA ffnirs, Ilhshington, D. C. - WHITREIV ER, COI.O., Soptemlev 10, 1874. SIR: Agreeable to the iostmctions of the Indian Dep&rtn,ont, I have the honor to submit the following as the annual report of the White River agency, for the p a r ending August 31, 1874: Upon receiving my instmkions at Washington, I proceeded at once to White River and took charge of the agenuy July 1. I esn report that since that time, and during the pre-vious portion of the gear, the Indians have been very orderly and well behaved, preserving tho mast friendly disposition, so far as I can learn, toward the whites. Nothing unpleasant grew out of' the affair at Piue Grove Meadows, reported by Agent J. 5. Littlefield in his last . annual report. There have been no serious disturbanoes of any kind within the limi 6 of the reservation, and no sets of violence oommitted either by the Iudians or by the ~vbites upan eaoh other within this part,ion of the reservation or near its bot~ndary. Ailout the middle of June Isst, however, Chief Jack, during a friendly visit to Rewlins, was assaulted by two desperste and eawsrdly chsracters, and badly cut and bruised. Wbile Jack will probebl~em brace the first opportumty to aver! e this sssault upon the individuals who com-mitted it, I do not thiuk that ha or any of the qndians harbor any ill-will agsiinst the whites on acoaunt of it. Soon sfler my a r r i~a lh ere, in July, the Indians iequasted to have s 'Ltalk" with me about a. proposed wegoo-road which is to pass down the Bear Riyer Valley, which valley they elaim ns their ouuntry. I listened to their remonstrance sgalnst the opening of suoh n road, and st their rcquest wrote to the Colnmissioner of Indiun Affuirs in regard to the |
