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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. war. How mnny of them actually resel~ed General Cmok's eomoiand. and what they did, if anythinn. I am unahlo to state, bol their ahsenre did not, as apprehanded, produce soy serihua influence opon tlreir fanoiog operatious, or sny demoreliestion on their return. CONTEL4C'K3, PURCFIASE8, AND DELIVERY OF SUPPLIES. For the porposeof purcbssing sopplies Ivisited Salt Lake City, reaching there on the 16th of September. On the ZOth, after cammunioating with the Depsrtment relative to the mst-ter, I advertised for propossls for beef-esttle, flour, sundry other articles, snd freight. After the reception of propassle, an the 27th, contracts were made sod bonds recorded for the sup-ply of besf-cattle, flour, and freight, on what were considered very sti is factory terms. These being forwarded to the Department for approval, I returned to my agency. Aniviog here on October 4, I found everything astisf&tory, myempl6y6s and Indians being busily en aged in threshing and tsking care of the crops. ft beesms nacssssry for me again to return to the city to inspect and receive suppliesco~- traoted for, dso to purehsse others for which I had failed to receive sati8faetory bids, and to forwsrd.al1 my supplies to the agency. After some delay all were sent forward, and I again returned to my sgenoy to receive them. Owing to the extrems badneaa of the roada, breakage of wagons, &c., the last of the goods did not arrive till the 18th of November; still this was earlier, sod the goads in a better condition, thsn 1 st one time anticipated. After the reception of supplies it sgain became necesssrffor meto return to Salt Lake to close my business prepsrstory to the closing in ofwinter. I accordingly left the agency on the 21st, arrived in the city on the 25th closed my business, left for the agency on the 29th of November, sod reached home on December 5. I have thus given a somewhat detailed account of my movements, in order that the De-partment may have Boms ides, though still an inadequate one, of the labor, expense, and grplexity incident to the position which I hold. Nor are these peculiar to this year alone. very yesr neeessitstes sbout the same amount of labor and expense, varied sometimes by episode8 in seeordsncs with the atate of the weather snd the roads, involving extra hard-ships and expense, which cannot be avoided if the dutiea are to he discherged for the intereats of the service. Most gladly would I sda t any course to lighten both, huthitherto have been unable to discover any mode by whicf it can be done. Situated 200 miles from Salt Lsks, our base of supplies, where all of our buailless must he done, which is also our post-office, with an outrageouslg bad road even st the most favorable sewon of the year, slmost impassable from snow for st least four months, sod exceedingly den srous from high water for st least three months more, it willreadily be seen under what %isadsantages we labor; and the Department will not, I apprehend, be wtonished or compisin should its eommnnicatioos not resoh us sometimes for months after thev are sent. or ours not reseh it in due season. THE IXDIANS, THEIR NUMBER, LOCATION, ETC. The whole number of Indians properly belonging to this reservation, from the most acou-rste'count and estimste we can get, is 639, loested as followa: Tabby's bsnd, or all those who recognize him as their nominal chief, nomberiug 439, are located on this resews-tion, sll engaged mare or less in farming,,snd came more immediately under the civiliz-ing influences of the agency; Kenosh'~b and, numbering about 125, located south of Utsh Lake, have never resided on tllis reservstion, though aome of them visit this agency, and when here receive supplies. I t is understood they are somewhat engagedin farming, though to what extent I sm uosble to state. Captain Jue'e hand, numbering sbout 75, also located south of Utah Lake, in Sari Pets Caunly. This latter band spent one yesr an this reser-vation since I hqve had charge, but from so unwillingness of Captain Joe and his bsnd to submit to Tabby's control, and slsa, sa I am well assured, from outside influences, they left, and though promising to return, have never done 80, though some of them are frequently hers and receive supplies. This band is also, to s greater or less extent, engaged in immin I have endeavored to induce Joe's baud to return, and also Kenosh and his hand, sn%'m,lke this reservatiou their home, hut from the indisposition of these chiefs sod their bands to ooalesee, also from the fact, as intimated above. that the latter two srs undsrsntagoniitic outside influences, I hare not been able to acaomplish tbb result. OUTSIDE ANTAQONISM. It is uupieasaot to me to he compelled to speak l~arshlyare ondemnatoryof the cnorlncr of those among wbom I reside, sod with whom I muat come in rantact in the diachargc of my duties, fir1 am well aware, frow pnxt ex erirnco. how nnorh they can thwart my pi.~ns and interfere with the benevoleut designs of ten Goserumsot. I do not reier to thu great body of the peuplo of this Territory, for I hnve esary rossou to believe tllcy would be gia3 to aid me in oecurine tine loration of sll $he Iztdiaus in the l'nrritors o~ tltis reservaricw. aud be freed from an~ogancanod savere tan upon themselre8. I hard. however, 15u lteot. evidanea, sl.art of dircrt ltcrsonnl koawle ige, to bel(vvo thsr someuf the leaders of tf:.??: mon Churrls Ilnvs. from m.,tivar best known to tla~nonelve~tr.i ed tu k o o ~th e Indialla oi Ibis Territory under theircontrol, nor have they been altogether unsoeoessful. I have had this |