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Show REPORTS OF AGENTS IN COI.ORAD0. gether with s"ffioient quantities of anions, squashes, melona, oahhsge, and pompkina. Part of tbis prodnce the Indiaos dispose of by sale to the United States troops iu this vicinity, and whites who are passing t o and fro tl rough this oountrv, reoaiv~ogg w d prloes therefor; the bi~laooeia ooust~medb y themuelws a t home. Of the above quan-tity of Is. d under ot~ltivationt en acres ware bmkcn this year. A few of the Indians have ~ r o v a dro be very soooesafnl in raisioc herds of horses and sbavp, and H I I I U I I ~8 0#1010t .n I;P f~. e lvt~l :LIII!II;!Rhe r* are haid at iiw prraenr ttota one hotldtcd and liftr brncl of good btuck cdttlc. 118 r8,nrrecriou will) this 1 ilcalra toalate rhrr I am cdoti'lel91 \VWU tllev luestell oermrnaotlv. "n.u n a rerut.satluo.aod tbes so i ~ n d ~ r aitt,~ n~lal~lyd w ho are b e c un.l,;n and hf+ilat,: to do Rl lr ~-JPIIIIII~ W U I I I ~ , ~ I aI shorr rintc. vi t i , parie#8r effurr on the part uf 1l.e ilgellt irl.sl ello~olu,vCab. e ~oducedt o turn lljnlr nl t a t~t l~i!nl tbat dnrcctlu#~u. r the ralalnn of &rucke ~ l t l rB. old b y tltl.3 111e8118 krpr fro801t he c.haee ,,otin.ly. 'l'brle ia but unz l~on~oanr .apled by lndisna, and thnr ia tbaonabuilt for Chief Ooray, re1 tltrm art, matar VCrv 810x10818 10 have mod IOC h00se~ hnilt. anti \10uld \villill~lv < ~ - - -. ssaint in putting (hem ip. During tbe year rbere bas been 160 rods of fencing put up by the Indiana. We have an agency iarm of o. e sore near the agency, along the bottom near the river, where the apenos eolpk,F6s have eultivatcd a sn~sll qosntity .of grdnn corn. pota~oeso, ueumb*rs, and rquabhrs. Altopetller it did not turu out a s well as migbt.be expeoted. the buainrss of the sgenloy requiring almost tbe oc.nst,aot,attention of all the snlplojB8. There was not fbat sttrnfion given the fsrm as to insure success. Alarge nur~mbrro f t h e Indians apeud nluch of tbr i r time in bunting, their principal game being deer, t b e skius of whioh thry di~pos eo f t o the trader, who, I uude r~t aod from the Indians, deals with t h r o ~lib evslls. Thr nlonrs tbus received i s e x ~ e n d e dfo r clothiag, l!raviaibns, powder a ~ ldead , and such orher crinkets as they fanci. I re 1st very O~UCtIhLer e ie DO 8cho01 st tbia agency. for i t i8 the emnest wish of al l three Yndiaus that tbrir children mag receive so English ednostion. Thvre abould be a boardim g school established a t tbis spet~oy.ora t whatever point theee Indiana are destiued to be rrolovd to, where a t least 100 soholara, inc1udit.g both sexes, could be ommodeted and where the children would be placed out of the way from under the direol inflt~enors of their pareuts sud friends. The parents live generally from t,hree to twentv-five mile8 d staut. end ware therean ordinarv dav ~ohoole stablished for the Itndinu childnm ru eunlc n"d go daily th-ru would I,': tarailnerd anti ins#iy al~aen~tecs. a ~ tdhu s ti,., rt18,rt~ torarda edtwstian )!odor thtn hyatenl wuald prusa a iallure; but mtn~veth e ~~uunboefr cl~~ltlrr!w) ho 3rd 11) be ed~~cattetdrn l~lt he aIat1j ~ou1;u.lu f the undue iuflucorea at hon.8 arunnd rhn ludiart en!t,t, tires and lolaw ~ I I U I I Ia 1 tire Iw~ r d - illy arlmol under the d ~ r c c ta .ll,,.rv~aion uf tl8r iige#~r,a#xtdb e guvurntnerlt r ~ ialo on learn that rho i r ~ w v ve x u e ~ d r dfo r r d t ~ c a t ~ uhoas not Ijcro ku vaw. This uor s t io#~of eduostion is oneof i b a '#reatest importanoe to the Indian, end there is n; language tbat can he used too strong to urge the estly adoption of the method I have here wg.- ested The matter of rduoatiou was one of ,he late Chief Ouraj's priooipal wishes; f e desired to have aobw,la rstabliabrd among hia people that they might learn and be-conm more intimat* sud infurmrd as to their white friends a d the govenmmaot. - Aboot onethird of the srlolt Indians at tbis agency uudemtsnd and speak a, little Eeglisb, and there are two who can read and write their names. Tbe renular iasnes i.f snbsistmos ar, this amoos sre msda to tbe Indians everv Sst- ~ ~ - " or&. Rlncr, t.,kir#g rharyv ot tlw nceury 1 have mmlo n obnoae i l l the ayetoon;of i8- P O ~ LraI t~iu loe, wllieb takt.8 place a* R I I ~ T C I IB ~IOYIi~: ;o htnndo l t11,>o ld nlendu of allowing tbv l l8dlat .~IO cru*d itp to nt.d around the i.utt~miranrld oor. tach one pushing aabd r l - h n i~t,g the! ( 8 t h ~~l~l l ids lg reat euurt~riola~n ti aonns,,vauca. I hnra bad butlt rroll,twary 61ata mtotdui ln~llo ear tlw ~unm.>srnray l4icI1 8a:rl~lrt#lll,dv~eIr~y~ l l~i l l ly11 11 of tlotl WU-nlm. mo lbat wllell the Indi~na810al l III aud uvervrlclna rwdv tur iabue l oalect ilorebur four'lodinos, who go to each Iodian outs d* in turn; e n d t,akiog his or her ration ticket or tickets goes to the iaane counter in the warehouse, hsnds over the ticket or tickets, is given the nuntbrr of ratiltns, as the oase may be; they then ratorn and de-liver rbe rations to the Indian to whom they brloog, and soon in thia manner until the eutire qoantity is delivered. This lusthod gives nruob more general satisfaotion than that of the old wav. It hax been the ouetom of the Ute Indians, handed down ta them from generation to generation, in the event of s death smoog them, to sacrifioe all and entire the property belonging. to the deceased, no matter of a b a t value i t might be or bnw sacredly held. Lately, io thn oasa of the death of Ouray, who died st the Smuthsrn Ute A ~ e n ~syb,c ~uot ne hundred and thirt,y nbilas away from his home a t t,bis place, while visiting the Utea at aaid secoos in oovnpsos wirh tho snroial United States ooulmlsaiou&, with a view ot frGlirai,ing by his pieseooa and iitflueooe the prompt sipoiug of the late treaty, he was btlrird in the v~cini tyw here be died, afrer which his widow, Ch i p ~ f ~aln,d f r i e~ds r e tur t~etod tbr i r home8 a t this agenoy wirh theavowed intentior) of da~t royiugb s burning everything belonging to rho deoae*ad. I made i t my special duty to be a t Ouray's house upon the arrival of Chipata and Oorag'a r e l s |