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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. 157 The liquor traffio is the great sontce of annoyance. The Indians proenre intaxi-caciuy liquora from white men reaiding in settlelnsnta Lorbring on the reeerve. I t ia comparilcively easy for Indians to obtain whisky, but qnite diffioolt fur us to prooore definite iuformation and witnesses neceiisary far the proeecutiou of guilty partiaa. But we have already made some importsot progress in this d i c t i o n and we hope erelong to ha able to do away effeotu%lly with tbis nnisanoe or at least make exsmples of those now engagad in the tre&. In relation to police matters I would oall apecial attaution to the suggestion of my chief of police in his l a ~rte port, reoommanding nu increase of pay t o Indian police, for 1, with him, am of the opinion that this foros can never be aoomplete aucoess until n higher peouoiary vslnatioo he put on its servioes. Aud we are satisfied that one half the number with a t least double the pay would be better than the ptesaut errsnge-ment. SANITARY. Tan births and twelve deaths have been reworded durin the ' yesr. The sanitary condition of the Iodiaos has not been partiotllarly favorabye, nod many oases of sick-ness have beeoreoarded. My clerk, whoalso acts ss physioiao, has bean able to furnish must of these with medical treatment, and there is a, growing tendency amaog theIo-dims to avxil themselves of such medioal assistence as we can offer them and to de- 1,endlrss upon their native medioine men. RUlLDlNGS AT AGENCY. At the igency two new buildings have been erected during the yesr, at ao expense to the governmeot of about $2,000. One was the erection of schaol building already mentioned, a t a coat of $1,200. Thia building was more properly remodelled and far-nished with twolar a additions. We now have acoommodations for a t leaat forty boarding. scholars an% oat~lde asily arrange for a number of daily upils. The other buildiag., an agenc'a dwelllsg, ereoted a t a coat of about $800, ha8 foog been needed, as the spent end family have heretofore beam obliged to reside in the achool boilding snd have hadanvthinn but oomfortable ouarters. These bnildinw are lathed and plab:cn.tl uud ttr;utrbrx w. r l~l, riekchimneyb,roore~tir~~cenurr irely ;;aw ro tllir wserion I ' . ' r l . , ~ auarerials were preparedat the ngavwy I,y omplog6~arli trlo axpcurru, and rltej add g . n ~ r l yl, orh t* tlaa culwl.,rt and appaaraucu 01' llta h#l l ldi#~p. SETTLEMENT OP WEITE RIVER UTES, PUTURE PROSPECTS, ETO. The great .ourre of nnsiofy ZIOW is the diapositlun to he made of thn White River Ured,at~drht.irp rdl~al,laind.~zllceoorUl~iuu rxhrril,~. lo tbulatrnrparr ofJllnr, tbeIlo-compahgre rltvrdiun of tllu UmCulornin8iun, together with Agent Ibrrs and two Uneam-paligra rlliufd, \,irtlntl rhia ~ r a t l Q and itlapautn<l a portion of the rraarvu, and 01, rile YLd of .Iuly, Cuto~tni*aioocr\ l e a e l~nna~u d .I. B. Vrenrl! xrrivnd with a nliiilxry cauorf, aud filncls with wit:rll to nuaka tlbn riral paymanlt to the \\'ilirn K~r e rl1 l01. 11 w a d ~ x - pzrred t l~a re ra rlrrir ilrrivnl all, ur ar lvaer the larger porriotb ot rbr frlbe. muuld ltava IBeeu bare acrordrog lo agrcemnnl, bur ul lbr Jato 01 rha arrls.,l 6 , i tibe oou8oaiadooar. nor more lllall a dozen lu<lru(rh ad oreaa8tlrd rhenlsc.l!er, and f l l c~aw ore aueh n.i had remained a t this agency diriog thegreater portion of tho winter. Ronnera were im-mediately sent out and the tribe is now well repres+utvd. It happened that this delay was not so unfortuoste, as we were, with tbe exception of flour, without any subsis-tenne tu issue them. Supplies of sugar aod coffee did not reaoh Salt Lake City ontil after the firat of August, sod the beef herd driven from White River waa not dsl~v-ered ontil the 15th instsnt. At a later date Commissioners Russell and Mears joined Colonel Meaoham, and they are now angaged in negotietio~.s with the White Rivers, which I troet will resnlt in a aatisfaotorv and amioable settlement of these Indisos. But to return to the Uiotahs. I h&e already enpreased some anxiety a8 to the probable influence of the White Rivars over them. The latter have been the larger number; they are indolent and know nothing. of farming. or oilring for themselvw by oivilized pursuits, and what ia worse, many of them have no desire to learn, and are free to sxpt-e their iutnntion of svoidiog anything of the kind. They laugh a t the Uintahs far farming, and say they ought to tight and then Wsshiogron woold fur-nish them plenty to eat. Thissaemsreasanable to the eimpleminde of these Iodianq who have been told that the herder they worked the more they might expect from the government, and who, Bfter endeavoring with honest pride to make themselves iode-yeodeot, now smothers, parties to s horrible, maasaore, located on lands whioh the Uiutsha had alweys snpposed their own, and without any e&t toward self-support, promised aboudsut snheisteooe and liberal annuity payotents forever,while this tribe, meriting reward and euooaraxerneut, s r a furni ahd wirll less than OUB-fourtho f 8 la-tiao, and, aside from & vary smallapproprirtion, are snpplisd with nothing. exoept a t the edrnest sud freqoeot imy o r t s n i ~o~f their agent. It is t ~ o teb a t the White Rivera are under treaty stipul&tions itna therefore well provided for, and i t is also true tbat the Uintahs me not, and therefure are nnfortuoate. But is it just that becauae of |
