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Show REPORTS OF AGEKTS i~ CCLOBADO. the Green River, Utah, st once upon their departure; that the department had made aarangements to pay those who hadmade impmvements in*e Unoompahgre Valley immediately upon their arrival; aid that. tbey would find the country they were going to a muoh better home than where they now were, and that I should leave for the new agency ss soon as poasihle. Upon hearing these instructions for removal, they declined toremovo to theGrcen River country, givingss their ressonhthat nothing had been paid those who had made improvements, and it should be paid to t,hem be-fore leaving, as it had been promised them by the commissioners, and that they had learned the country about the Green River was such that their stock could not, live. I gave t,bem until next day to consider the matter, and report to me the result of their deliberations. They came in the following day as agreed and still halined to go. This lefusal to comply with my r eqne~tr esulted in their being turned over by the department to thecharge of General R. S. Maekeneie, commanding themilitayin this vioinit,y, who, upon lenrning of t,he duty devolving upon him, deoided to give the Indians every possible opportunity to avoid trouble, and iu view of this concluded ta give them a hearing. I therefore called the principal ohiefa into the agency and socompanied them to General Mackeneie's headquarters at the cantonment, where after learning that they were under his charge, and hearing Ewru him good and friendly advioe as to their penceable compliance with their apeenlent t,hey ooncluded st once to remove. This oonvinoes me that they had no wry serious intention of oh-viating the wishea of the department Or the provisions of the agreement. From the fact that certain unprincipled whites in the vioinity of the reservation and passing through the same, had poisoned the minds of tho Indians against removing by mis-representing in every way possible the &ion of the department and their agent, it is not to be vondered that the Inaan, naturally suspicious ils he is, should endeavor to remain in the valley or oonntry to which they were so fondly attached. The India?s haring deoided to remove, General Mackenzie turned them over to my charge &ganl on the 26th of August. dueust 27. ristiuns for three weeks were issued to the Indians. who d once aom- - - togatlirr with all their property and atook.' After the departure of the Indirtna, preparations werethen mede, and every sssiat-anoe rendered Maj. E. B. Townsend, special Indian agent, under whose direct super-vielun ell t.he public property at the agency, deemed of no advantage to remove to new apney wns to be sold st public anotion, bugnst 29. August '29. YO, and 31 were peoup~sdin assisting a t suction aale of the agency publio property, after whioh dl gublio prupehy, reoorda, &e., for the new agency were paoked and shipped by wagons ta the railroad at Gunnison, from which point they will go by rail ta Salt Lake City, snd thence bg wagons again to new agency. September 3, I started fmm Los Pinoa Agency, Colorado, a route to this city, where I arrived on the 9th instant. A large mount of the gooda and supplies for shiprllent to the new aggncg are now here, and will be sent forrard in afew days in ordtr to meet the sants of the Indians who are sxpaoterl to arrive about the 20th September. The estimated distanoe from Salt Lake City to the now ogeney is 210 miles, ohiefl~ ovar a mountainous rokd. I But very little indoed has been done duriug tbe past yeas in the way of farming or impmementr 4 Uxse Indiana, &om the fact thaI I removal wm mticipatml early the past sprin or summer, and ss it wni the expressed desire of the depnrtment that no seed shoulfhe planted, thoae who had been uooustonied to farming quietly yiel~lrd, althoargb :haftsr!vrrds I found some had planted a small anlallnt of corn, potatoes, end squash. Those who have farmed, and who I am sure will e n g q e in a uoul tur~pl ur-allits now that tbey me perroaneutly looated, numb- twenty. To %use shonld be given thei* land imder the late agreement at aa early s. day as possible, build for them srnnll hot comfortable and substantial houses, furnish them agricultural implements, wagons. and other necessary articles, and the necessary assistance in beginning farm-i~ rgo perations. By starting out promytly with them early next spring, and by proper and oareful handling, with a. view to holding them at their new loentio~ ,b owing them that the depclrtnmnt, is detel.ruined to carry out its promises, I am oonfident of Sueoess, and that it will have the mosf encouraging effae$ iodroingthem to further eforte towards industrialhabits. At the same time thia method gill have thegreatest power nud he thehelit influenee in drawing others to labor asnne as their friends, nlao when t h y see the encouraging results obtsined from labor, ae they undoubtedly will ia a short tiure. It is t,heratbre hoped that the necessary wxGonons, harness, implentents, &c.. thaa are lo be funkisbed them by or nnder the superviaoo of the Ute Indian com. ( missioners, &auld be delivered to those who will oolums~lce farming next rpring, at. as early s day aspaaaibla. These Indims are upon the whole engaged in raising horses, sheep, and goats, snd rU'8 prinuipally herders, but I am oonfident lo e short time from tbe example of those |