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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. We frequently have, and had at our lnst issue, Colorado Utes, and also a few Shoshones. They alwnys claimaninterest In our issues, and our Indians ins~sth at they are their friends, some of them tlrsir relatives, aud that they must pllrlieipets equally with themselves, saying that they share with them when at their agencies. We cannot but commend their hos.o itaiit.v and .e,e nerasitv".. t houzh we cannot theirorudsnoe~. . autl yitx d, g v ~ ~ e n ~ I Irh~r,irt u\r lslner. ' l ' l c j r i~ nrs evil, bur an cf1i;fiet.r r.vtw.ly rnnnol at once be app:i.d. Tlno o m ill,$r has su<<citc2 itrnli lo oly m:n~d,t,l.cl whirlt I haw tried to h r i n ~ nbt,tt! witll tile \\'lai;t. River arcaa~v. 1,ut fnilt,d. is ibr the hneutr tu ths d:srricr ur caunzrv where Indians visit each other70 establish the same day for %e general issue. SURVEY OF RESERVATION. An appropriation having been made far the survey of our reservation, and a. eontraot hav-inq been made by the Depnrtmeut with C. L. Dn Bois, esq., ha, with his psrty, arrived at the q-egeney in the latter part of August, sod commenced operations. At first the Indians seemed to be miatmatfui of the objeat of this survey, fearing that it was tor the benefit of white men. I nssured them,as instructed by the Department, that it was for their exelusive benefit, and also to prevent the intrusion of white men upon their land. They soon beesme satisfied that it was all right and were rather pleased with the matter, and showed their good will toward the party by supplying it with some of their ferm products. The survey,so fsr as the looetion of their farms is ooocerned, will be of no immediate sd-vantap, hut the running of the bouudnrg.line on the east and south between that portion of the reserve and growing whits settlements, will prevent any difficulty from encroachments in that direction. RUMORS, SIOUX WAR, ETG. In April of the present year s raport wes brought to the agency by some white men from Salt Lake City that Coogreas hnd thrown the Uiutah V&lley reservation open to white sst- 'tiers, and that our Indians were to be removed and located witn other Indians at some other agency, and the Indisn Bureeo put in charge of the War Department. We all for R time believad t h e ~ ere ports. Any one osn imagine the utter i~staoi~hlneootf both Indians and whites, especially ss these reports followed ao qnickiy after the assurances given in the matter of the survey. The Iudisns seemed for a time almost stupefied, and old men who hnd maintained an unshaken oonfidence in Washington seemed to doubt whether they had a Great Father or not. One, a good Indian, notwithstanding some rackless white men say that all such are dend, actually shed tears. I tried to 1.e-assure them, fearinq tbe effeot upon their general conduct, sod especially on their farming openltions. I told them I would go to Sslt Lake and find out all about it. 1 partially succeeded, though I must say I felt degraded before my Indians, end that the Government, if these reports were tme, wss justly chargeable with had fsith toward its dependent wards. I could not have much blamed them had they beoome perfectly reckless. They soon recovered from their astonishment. and eontinned their farming operations which they had commenced. This matter aroused all my latent sympathy for a wesk and dependent class. I was not &ware till then that I had such s deep interest in tbe future welfare of those &er whom I have so long hsd control. About the cioseof June last I received a telegram, which I forwarded to the De srtment, from an oEcer in General Crook's oommsnd, desiring me to send ss many o! my In-dians as I oould to operate against the Sioux. I presented the matter to-my Indians, and explained it ss wall as I oauld, and reoommended as many as oould to go, telling them at the same time I hsd no authority, and did not desire to compel them to go, having had no sdvicea from the Department relative to the matter. Between twenty and thirty left far Fort Bridger as soon as possible, ostensi y for the purpose desired. Same were out in that direction, and I am yet unable to tell !! ow many ol them %tually went to tbs war, nor will be able to know till all or most of them return. Most of thoae thst went were our best farmem: and though they left their families to cars for their crops, and others promised to help them, still their leaving st thnt time wss a marplot in our farming operations. FARMING OPERATIONS. As may be infe~redf rom what has been said, the results of Indian farming have not been ss satisfactory as we had hoped they would he, nor ss we had reason to believe they would be from the spirit and interest lnsuifested at the commeooemeot of the season. Many of them ubanged the location of their farms, &nd opened new one8 from 6 to 8 miles farther south, where it is warmer and the laod generally better. Thsy deserve much oredit for the amount of new land cleared and broken tor the firat time, and surrounded with rude Indian frnros" . Most of their erap on the new land looks well, some of it very well, but from the causes hereinbefore enumerated, together with the fact thet we did not hive a sufficient number of 9 m |
