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Show 76 IBFOE~TIATION, BISTUEICAL AND STATISTICA~; PAR-UTES, They are properly called Paviotsoes, their own Indian name for the tribe, and, though oftell confounded with the Pi-Utes, are a distinct people, speaking another language. They are reported to number not far from 2,000, of whom a small number are cultivating lands upon the Walker River aud Pyramid Lake reservations in Nevada. Trout caught in their streams in considerable qiiantities affords them a currency for barter, with which they are able to add materially to their means of obtaining a comfortable livelihood. The remainder of the Pah-Utes are roaming through Western Nevada and Northeastern Oalifornia, cultirating patches of ground here and there, or laboring for farmers and miners, or liring by begging, root-digging, and fishing. PAX-VANTS. The Pah-Tants are intermarried with the Uintah Utes,and speak the same language, and mere reported, in 18'73, to be living in Utah, and to number 134, under one chief who, though lrimself living in a house, and having partially adopted ci;ilized habits, had failed to raise hls people beyond honting, begging, and gathering seeds for support. PI-UTES, j By report of Messrs. Illgalls and Powell, submitted in 1573, after care-fnl and personal investigation, the llumber of this tribe is 1)laced at 2,027, esclnsive of those in Oregon, being distribute11 as follows : 528 in Utah, 284 in Northern Arizona, 1,031 in Southern Nevada, and 184 in Southeast California. They are divided into 31 bands, and several I years ago were extensirely engaged in cultivating the so~I,,bubt y the I gradual approach of settlements have been pushed off from their best farming-land, and forced to a vagabond life and a precarious subsistence mainly on roots and bpnies a,nd seeds, suppleme~~tebdy tilling the soil to a limited extent, and by working.occasionally for settlers. They are beooming quite familiar with the English language, but in other respects are growing more demoralized each year by contact with the worst fea-ture of civilization. A reservation of 3,900 square miles was sot apart for their use by Executive order in 1873, of which less than 1 per cent. was valuable for either tillage, timher, or grazing. This large reserve ', has recently been reduced to one t.housand acres of fine farming-land in the upper part of the Noapa Valley, the aba.gdoned site of an old Mor-mon settlement, whose irrigatiag-ditches require but little repair to make them of great value in the effort to bring the Pi-Utes to selt: support by agriculture. Only 400 have as yet been gathered on the re-serve. Their readiness to adapt themselves to the new mode of life is most encouraging for their future. Within the last two years 870 Pi.Utes, with 173 ~annacks and Snakes, ragrants of Southwestern Oregon, have been gathered on the Malheur reservation in that State, where they are being subsisted by the Government. Notwithstanding their previous roanling and lawless habits, the agent reports that ttlrey are not only peaceably disposed and easily controlled, but also that they have been iuduced to earu all their annait.y.goods arrd a small portion of their rations by labor. One hun-dred young men have taken bold of the hoe and spade for the first time, and by the cultivation of one hundred acres and the digging of an irri-gatingditch 10 feet wide, 3 feet deep, and a mile and a half long, h a ~ e fairly committed tl~emselrest o seltlsupport. I |