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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. and also made 8 little progress in figures. They acquired a self.respeot and propriety of deportment which they would not otherwise have had, and a morel training, the value of which cannot be reckoned in dollitrs and cents. ENPLOYhS, BUILDINGS, &G. I have st present only three employ6s. Two of them, my head-farmer and osrpenter, have their families with them; the other is B younp sinple man. All are of morsl and religious character, and, as before stated, I cannot doubt but their high character has been an efficient means of oivili~ation. No profauity or vulgarity is allowed on the sgeney sven among ....:","u".:"*. A.- In order to aooamplish anything in the way of improvements it will be necessary to have stleest three more emplo~Bsa, blwksmith, oneherder, and another laborer. As we are directed to is,", to the Indians ooee a week, it consumes much of the tims of my emplay8s, a8 I think unnecessarily, as when we issued every two weeks the Indims were just as well satisfied, and rnuch tims in getting up oattle aod issuing beef and other supplies saved. I would recommend a change in the law so as to give agents situated ss I am, discretionary power in the matter. The buildings consist of one large frame, oontaining grist, saw, ~ LUsJh ingle mills, one yt also occupied ss carpenters's shop, with abundance of roam for storing grain; one ouble frame.house, two dories, with shed-rooms on one side, which accommodates two families; snd a frame school-buildiug two-stories, with ring 18 by 14 feet, in which theagent with Ibis family resider, and also oeeuples upper sod lower rooms artitianed off from the main buildin These dwellings are comparatively comfortable tpough not plastered or ceilad. ~ e g d a v e% I80 one osrpenter-shop, one blsoksmith-shop and one slaughter-house with good corral joining. These were old log-buildings removed and fitted up for the pnr-posea with rafters and sheeting, but not yet silingled, which I mean to have done this fall or winter. We have in lrddition one large log-stable with dirt roof, one commissarj-building with dirt roof, snd one store, or trader's han~ep, artly hoard &ad partly lag, with dirt roof. These latter baildine3 will all have to be fitted up with board or shingle roofs, as in late yssrs so muoh rdn talls during B portion of the year that a dirt roof is not sufficient protec-tion. With the completion of those in process of repair, change of the dirt roofs, and another wing added to the sohool-building for boarding and lodging purposes, should the school be revived, which I trust for the intereats of our Indians will be done, the buildings will be suf-ficient for ordinary use. GOVERNMENT FARM. We have no! .!tempted to farm much. i!>depcuJonl of r1.r It~diall fnmm. R u have diwos-ewd thnr it is nut proilt~llo t~ raisu aoytlli~r oxec,pr <tars rbr feed, puteko?, and a few vcetal>.nr sdnp:rd to tlzc clirnntn. Irrio-arup. is 8x1 arpaniivc prorera in fnnuiu-e , oa-p rcinllg with Governmint smploy4s. I will, in conclusion,rienture to make some suggestions relat i~et o the gratuitous distri-bution of annuity snd other goods. As I haw remarked in other communications to the Department, I am more and more impressed with the idea. that the plan of distribut-ing aonoity and other e;aods gr&tuitously is B vicious one frsoght with much evil, tending to enervate and degrade the red ient, is a premium on idleuess sod laziness, and tends to dafest the p e t object yhieh stauld be kept oanstantly in view in the treatment of all Iodians, vie, to cultivate in them industriaue h&hits, self-respect and self-relisnce. The plan I would suggest, ss s substitute for the present one, is, to have all their goads and supplies placed in it store at the agency ; s competent and reliable clerk or store-keeper plneed in charge, selling the goads at prime cost, and take in exchange for said goads all the products of tbe farm and chase. I would charge them with sll work done for them in the shops also, the clerk keeping sn account of the goods sold or work done, with the price ehsl.ged, nod the amount and kind of goods or even Isbar, with the vslue of the seme. I am aware that the above is s, erode sketch of the plan, thsr it is open to many objections, and would require muoh petieoce,labor,ability and fidelity to carry it out; but if some-thing of the kind were introduced among psrtil~llyc ivilized Indians I am strongly inclined to believe pood results would follow. The object would not be to make or sven save monev on behalf of the Government, but to remedy the evils that are believed to flaw |