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Show REPORTS OF AGENTS IN COLORADO. 23 mer, under many trying and conflicting circumstances. and are deserving of muoh prstee. - /' To General R. S.Maokeneie. conimanrl~net he militam in the viainitv of~ Los Pinoa Agency, Culoradt,, and tLn ofiierrs nitllin tiia cnmmand;tlria agcoug inmuch indehmd fur the many cuurtrniea nxttuderl and nlhoinr tIbapruntprneR8 with which has at all timna responded with iwssrnncr in prescrring peare and good urdcr upon the rcoer- ~ l t i l l..,., 'I'hn anuual atntistical report of this agcurg ir hcwwith inclosed. In cor~rlllsiuop crmat nl,.rcnfi,~?rfi#rIul~ tl tauk j o u ior Itla kind roppurr uf the de-parrrarnt and Ind>iloO Oice i u rLn ad~o~:rtibrrariaonf arfairs at tllis ncrnc-r dnrine the past year, which have terminated so suceessfuliy. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. A. BERRY. Usdted States Indinadgent. The Co xmr s s l o ~ ao~r INDIAN APF~IRS. SOUTHERN UTE AGENCY, Colorado, September -, 1881. SIR: In obedience to orders received I have the honor to submit my third annual report. The Southern Ute Indians are toosted on their old reservation in Southwestern Col-orado, whioh is s n a m a ntrip of mountainous land, 15 miles in width and lOOmilas in length, so nsuelly conoeded, although there is but an imaeinary line on the north-western corner separating the SoothernUtefrom themain r e ~ r v t ~ t i o n r e c e nvht lc~at ed by the While kiver and Ta1,eqnwhe or Uncompahgre bands. This reservation is well adapted for gra~ing,b eing well watered by the Rio Loa Pinos, Peadre, Animas, La Plata, Florida, Maneos, San Jnan, and Dolores ; only the narrow llottoms along the streams are suitable for agriuultural purposes, as no crops aan be snccesafully raised without irrigation. There are in thomouut&inslarge num-bera of the larger species cd game, p~inoipally hear and deer, of whioh the Indi+ntns, during the fall months, kill large quantities. The meat is dried for winter use, the skins well dressed, and usually 8old to the agency trader for oosh, or at the stores in near settlements for suoh articles as the Indian desires, with the exception of arms and rsmmunitionrwhich are not openly sold to Indians in this vicinity. The Ute Indian, in I believe, the purest type of the American Indim now existing. There is not a half-breed or a. sqnsw-man in the Ute tribe. Their prit~cipxvl ices are horse-racing audgamMing. No attempt at fiarming has been made by these Indians. They believe that labor is beneath the dignity of the Ute Indian. They own large bands of horses and some s m d herds of .sheep and goats, which they carefully herd. Their stoak of horses is oonatantly. increasing both by natural increase and by pur-chase. They rarely sell a horse, except for some fault. Many of their sheep and goats they kill and eat during thst portionof the winterwheu the deep 8uowaprevent reaching the agenay. Cubosona, a subohiet'of the Weeminnches, owns and herds over one hundred hesdof American cattle, some of whioh he occasionally sells to the butchers. The Ute Indian nst~~rrslilnyc lines towards psstoral pursuits, to which this reserva-tion is welladapted. Nomw.lir in his tastes and habits, livin in tepees or tenta, hefre-quently removes from one portion of the reservation to anoher, aa his fancy or iuoli-nation dictates, thesquawsdoing all the laborrequirerl in oonneotiontherewith. They steadfastly refuse to live in houses, tents to them heiog'roore siltisfactory. Imme' diately on the death of s member of a. family, the tents, blankct,~a, nd in fact nearly every thing they possess ;are burned; and, if a "wa.miar," seve.ralof hismost valuable hor~esa re shot, varyingin number aoeording ta the wealth and dignity of t,he owner. No schools have been established. An ealmest butuosweessfi~el Kort hasbeen made toinduce the sending of Ute children to the Indian school at Carlilisle, Penu. None of the tribe speak English. All eommunieatinn with then, is done eitller in Ute or in tlle Spaniah language, the latter beingpartisily undervtooil by monv of the tribe. The requisite number of Ute Ind~euah,a ving affixed their sigktnres to the xot en-titled "An act ratifyingagreemsnt ait,h the Utps," Hou. George W. Manypenny, ofthe Ute oommis~iona, ccompanied bymyselt; have t,haroughly esaminedallthe lands ont,he Rio La. Plata and vicinity. Said land are now being surveyea with a vievto locating the Southern Ute tribe in severt~lty. By including all the nwioultursl land8 on the several atreams running through the present reservation, therzis not 3. sufficient quan-tity to furnish the Indians the number of acres prornisnd when said agreement was si"en ed. The survey, oonatmction, and operation of the Denver and Rio Urande Railway through some 50 miles of the reservation, without any "amicable ammgement" being made withtheIndiana, as ordered by the haliorable Secretary of the Interior, added to |