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Show --- REPORTS OF AGENTS IN COLORADO. 233 by the Indians for family use. Oar present herders will have ta keep charge of the cattle thmmh the eamine winter. if not lourer. MU& work bar"hroo done at the 'kgeuey. repairia: gons, abuoinp ~ O ~ B P Rsn, d keepinc horldir,g~i n repair. B U ~~ u l t l n cso rd-wwd, beside" what war n e d f ~iin issuing goads to tba Iodi~nsa ud keouine records an1 scoo!lnta. 31url, uf the work fur tbe last three muotbsllss hid idrun co~~ue l t iowii th rlne remc,vnl 811 the aeeory. I have regarded tbe rrntovai asvery iu, onarit, oo a:ru,rnt of the great nmsant of travel d:rre~ly thruu~h tho present apmry, an$ tie runrstluro! andfreutreut coutarr uf the tua races. Yet 1 must arknouledrt there 1 . ~ 3 norheenso mioh annoyan& grown out of this ~3 1 anticipated. As we are noran the res-ervation, of wurse Icould place no restrictiooa an traveling, or even settling in the ~icinity. I have had knowledge of Indiann getting spirituous liquors hutonoe, and then through some Jnoarills Apachea who were visitors. The saw-mill wna to be in operation st the new location, and the rontrsctar is already at work arecting the new hniidin~a. If we hsve no serious delays in securing our winter sup-plies, ns ehnil move during the Isst part of October and first part of November. Very few, if any of the Utes will go to the pieins the coming winter, but large numbers are talking of going ta the Uneapahgre. Many have gone already. I nm plnd to report that the annuity-goads have nearly all srrivsd. They reached here on the 6th September, nearly s moutll earlier thsn Isstfear. The school hss beeo ss successful ascould he expected, taking intoeonsid&ation how low down in acquirement the soholsra oommenoed. The improvement of several of the pupils i s very marked. Quite n~iotogvh as beeo gsitted over the prejudices of influential mam-hers of the tribe. Msmhera of Oumy's family snd of the f~milies of four other rominant chiefs havo attended the sobool. The El l~l i shla ngosgs is taught by constant sn?p)persevsr. ing eonvaraation on things of which the senees take aognieance, or acts which tbe children cso parform or see in others. Thus tbey learn the use of the words while they become ac-customed to the sound and look. ~ m o n gth e new eg.eney buildings will be asehool-house with rooms to aceammodste a few hoarders, which I hope to be allowed M keep. 1 have visited the Uneapahgrs three times to attend to removal matters, and mnst go again.within s week. It took twelve men with four wagons, with three yoke of oattia each, and one wagon with a pair of mules, three weeks to remove the mill. They had to make the road s great part of the way. l'raneportntion m~zst be low and expensive until more money is spent upon the road than ean he spared from the present appropriation. The houndary question is still sgitated among the Utes with s gooddesi of feeling. They have slwsys declared that they never intended to part with any farming-lauds. This is evi-dent also from Agent Adams's report for 1W3, in which he sa s "They allunderstand that they will he ohliped to doso [till the soil] st no very distant lay: and they became tnore snd mare accu~tomedto this idea, and for this Tery reason tbey positively refused toselltheir farm-ing sndgrass lnods at the late council." They complain that their right tocertainlands which some of them have occupied and eoltivatad for years i. contested by the whites, and Mr. Gsrdner, of Professor Hayden's erplorstiou parties, and Mr. Millor, the authorized sorveyor of the San Juan district, report lend, on the Animl~s and La Plata Rivers north of the , division-line suitable for cultivation. I have always counseled red men and white men to sbstain from any contest or controversy about the mattar until the lines were esr~blished; that is, not to quarrel until they knew whst they were quarreling about. The time has come when tbcre cno no ionper be a question as to what is whose. It is possible lhat eve,, now, two years after tlle cession of laud was agreed to, an sffor of the delayed cornpenastion msy pacify the Indians and make tlrern contented to surrender what they much vnlas. I t is most likely that a yesr ago such an offer wonld hare answered the purpose. It has boen impossible for me to give the Utes any reason far this long delay on the part of the Govern-ment whioh they would Bcceptas satisfactory. They now declare that they willnot yeceive soy compensation until the houudary-line ie settled. Thie matter will be morefully exilsined by Agent J. D. Miles, whom you cammissioned to make special inquiry into it, sud who left here a. few days since. You are awere that the Utcr objected to Messrs. Gardoer's and Gnunett's surveys in the oatset, and that the parties of these gentlemen hare lately been actually drhao in tiom their work. A few days since Mr. Gardner was here, and, in ronvers~tion with Ouray, was as-sured that tile att,ackinp Indians, sceoding to hia deasriptioo of. them and of the place of attack, must have hesu 8 well-known bsud of outlaws, formerly Pi-Utes of Utah, now se-knowledging no authority, though perhaps some disaffected Ulea had joined &ern. I t ia not known that there were more than ten, no more than that number h a ~ i n gb een seen at once. The fitst attack wssttear Sierrs Ls Sal, in Utah, the pursuit into Colorado and on to the ~eserrstitioo. Three mules balongiug to the ~.urveyore were killed, hut no men, nnless, erhaps, one Indian. I t is ressonsbis to snpposa that these hostile Ir~disnws are emboldened l y the well-known diss~tiafnction of the Ute tribe with the Rrunot agreement. Two of the surveying arty at the supply-amp, detached from the main body. were threatened by s lit-tle band a?~adians recognized s. from tbe Whits River spncy. I hope the time will oome when by some police fol.ce, composed of the Iudians sod under direction of the chiefs, the members of the tribes will be made pereonslly responsible for thecrimes they commit Sueh |