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Show XXXVIII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. duoting expense of such sale, to be invested for the benefit of the Indians. No action onthe matter waa taken by Cengmss. . . The Commission also endeavored to obtain the cession of the tract four miles square which contains a part of the Unwmpahgre Park; but the Utes refused to have anything to aay on -the subject unless a dele-gation could be sent to Washington for that purpose. Permission for the visit was therefore given, and a delegation viaited this city in Jann-my last. They agreed to part with that portion of their reservation for the sum of $10,000. The matter was submitted to Congress, with re-quaat that the necessary sum for the p~wchaae be appropriated; but no action was taken. , The tmt referred to is for the most part 6ne agri-cultural land, which is greatly needed by the people of Colorado, and upon which white settlers have already gone in oonsiderable numbers. It will be a matter of difficulty, if not impossibility, to remove these set-. tlers, and to prevent others from going in and occupying the land; and so long as it is not paid for the Indians will justly consider such settle-ments as encroachments. The Indians most interested in the cession are the Los Pinos Utes, and in view of their good wndncfi durjug the hostilities of their .friends and rehtives,it is imporbant that their loyalty ' should not be subjected to unnecessary tests. I, therefore, hope that the matter mill not fail ail receive the early and favorable oonsideration of Congresa at its next session. VICTORIA AND THE SOUTHERN APACHES. In 1871 about 1,200 Mogollon, Miembre, and Gila Apaches, known under the general name of Southern Apaches, were collected in the vicinity of the Mexican town of Caiiada Alamosa, in Southwestern New Mexico. They had no reservation, had been accustomed to roaming and marauding, and the scanty rations which were then being issued weekly were insufficient for their subsistence, and had to be supplemented by such meansas the Indians ehose to adopt. For these Apaches a reser-vation containing the valley of the Tularosa River mas selected by Hop. Vincent Oolyer, and set apartby executive order in the fall of 1871. As soon as the project of removal thither was broached, the major it^ of the Indians ran away, many of them to the Chiricahna Reserve in Arizona, and but 450 were prevailad upon to remove to the new reser-vation. These Indians were thoroughly displeased with the location, were absent from the reserve during many months of thayear, and were generallj. unsettled, iudolent, and intractable. In the €all of 1874the Hot Springs Reservation, near Cafiada Alamosa, was set apart, and the Iudiaus removed back again to their old home, and were occasiou~llyjo ined by other bands till their number was at, times nearly doubled. A small detachment of troops was kept at the agency, and the Indians remained comparatively quiet, but were care-ful not to commit themselves to farming or acbools. Between them and t,heir relatives, the Chiricahnas, in Arizona, frequent sits were en- |