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Show XLVI , REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS; lian no fund with which to provide for them, and the War Department hasagain agreed to issue rations on the same conditions as to reim-bursement. An estimate of fuuds.needed therefor will be submitted to Congress at its next session; but it is impcirtant that some per-m:& nent iirrangement shodd be made, whereby the Hualapais may be pnt in the way of becoming civilized and self-supporting. At t,heir request, General Wilcox, nuder date of Jnly 8, 1881, ordered t.llat a tract about 30 miles wide and 100 miles long, lying along e be1111 in the Colorado River, be set apart as a. "military reservation for the subsistence and better control of the Hualapais Indians." But the military officer who reoomm6.uds the boi~udary lines of this tract re-ports thdt they include little or no arable land, and that L'the water is in such small quantities, and the country is so rocky and devoid of grass, that it would not be available for stock-raising." Either a re-serve suitable for agriculture or grazing should be set apart for t.hem, or, which is far better, they should be settled under the care of an agent upon some, reserve already established, and should be assisted in the way of liouse-building, farming, or herding, and schools. Their friendliness and willingness to render se~vicea s scouts entitle them to generous treatment by the government; butthey should be so placed that support by thcir o m eflorts is possible,'and thengradually be compelled to depend on it for sl~pport. This will require en ample appropriation on the start, but will bsnlore economical in the end, and more credit-able, than to allow them to continue to be idle cousurners of rations in a barren country. UTES. The commissioners appointed under the act of June 15, 1880, rati-, fying the Ute agreement of March 6, 1880, have selected a reserva-tion in tbe vicinity of the confluence of White River with Green River, Utah, adjacent to the Uintah Indian Reservation, for the Uncompahgre Utes, who were formerly located at Los Pinos Agency, Coloranlo. The UncompahgreUtes havebeenremoved thereto ; the agency buildingsat the former Los Pinos Agency have been sold, and new ones have been erected at the new agency, which is designated Ouray Agency, in re-cognition of the friendship and faithfulness to the whites of Ouray, former head chief of the Utes. The White River Utes have been removed to Uintah Agency, where lands will be assigned to them in severalty, as provided in the Ute agreement, so soon as the requisite surveys shell have been mada The Southrn Utes still occupy their old reservation in the southern part of the Ute Reserve. Their agent reports that the lands on the Rio La Plata and vicinity, assigned for their location in severalty bythe Ute agreement, are being surveyed with a view to the definite location of these Indians so far as practicable, but that there is not a sufficient aaount ofagricnltural land on the reservation in that ricinlty to filr- |
