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Show REPORT OF THE UTE COMMISSION. the value of their improvements. Attaehedhereto, as Exhibit A, is a statement show-ins the uames of those havine made im~rovonlentsa nd now ocounvine them. with a ~ , ; l h i s t n r ~ ~onf ~tln~tn irc~lnmiiacnrd ~ n ; a p ~ r ~ i t i e l ~o~f tciwn tir va~;lb. ' T ~ ~ T iOr e also r an ur rhrce ),arrial.~r<~ml,lerleodg -la,urr.* whirh lieen! ro have bvm ubandunzd. Wa a.erL. 1111aljietu fmtl #or 1wru 811~1111080 1 the 1~crson9c l a imins chon). Pnrrira hsvilir aog uf ther* clnilnr \.ill t~ndu>;brt,diiL. u gl~i;l 10 h u r r ~ n ~ l ~ r u l ) ~ nr l l t rerlum (;c t l~mr unr? paid ly tllcn,, mtlwr rl.nr. li\.e at!~rutladr,l It! 111e Indiarla. \Vlc+revm ~ t n - uruvnlletnrr Il:tvc hero made the\. ran ba uctuuird bv the Iudiwia or "lad" u.icful for the agency. We recommend that those having these ranohes be paid reasonable compensation for their improvements, that the amounts paid by them on their claims be returned, and that the lwds be taken and allotted as in the agreement contemplated. We regard it as espseiall~d eeirahle that the claim of Mr. Evens and that of Mr. Popper be had for the use of t,he agency and the Indians. The olaim of the former covers a large part of the desirable hay land in the Green River Vdley, and that of the letter includes all ofthelandon the point between White andGreenRivers, southwest oftheagenay build-in 5s , a part of whioh we intended for agency purposes. large quantity of lunrbsr will be necesswy for the permanent agency buildings, school-houseq and dwellings for the Indians. With s, view of aseertaining where lumber could be obtained, we examined the country along the Uintah rangsof moun-tains, mtl found on both the east and west branches of the Lake Fork of the Duchesne an abuudilnce of large pine timber which could be cut and floated down the Duchesna to rs paint within three miles of the agenoy. We are also informed thatthere is s large quantity of good pine timber on the WhitmRe iver, above the old a.genoy, which eould easily be floateddown towithin a mile of the agency buildings. Thetiu~bershouldb e out in the winter nod floated down during the high-water season in the spring. We reoomrnend thst s. contract be made whereby logs for 1,000,000 feet of lumber will be cutsnd delivered at the month of the Duohesne or White River not later than the 1st of next July. Tho machinery for saw-mill should be supplied a8 early in the spring as prtsotioa- Me. The power for that will be suffioient for& grist-mill ; the latter, however, will not be needed next season. A statement showing an estimate of the number of buildings whioh will be required, with their probable oost, the necessary machinery, with its probsble oost, thenumber of cattle, with their probable cost, as well as the probable cost of the nsoessaw irriga-ting ditelles and agrioultursl implements in heret,o attaobcd as Exhibit B. Heretofore theae Indians have lived in tents and refused to aocept houses; but the indications now are that quite a number of them will want housea next sewon. We do not, how ever, think it wise to build them until they will take and occupy them, and then only from time to time, as they express a desire for them. In our estimates for agrionlturel implements we have provided for fully as many as we think will be taken and used during t,hs first year. Others will have to he suppliedfrom time to time as the Indians manifest a desire to have them snd begin work. They have very few cattle, and we recommend that they be aupplied another spring with three hundred oows and ten bulls. We have not deemed it necessary to open irrigatin ditches through all of these lands, believing thst it will be some considerable tima &fore ell of the Indiana will attempt to use or take care of them. The extent of the ditohes to be opened an-other seasou should depend aomewhnt upon the dispo~itiono f the Indians to use and proteat them. After the selection of these lands, and after the agenoy buildings were nesdy eom-pleted, s, military foroe arrived, under the command of Capt. Hnwkins, and camped on the north side of Green River, near the agency. We are cow informed that an order has been issued by the military authorities taking for a military reservation tho fbllow-ing territory, to wit: Beginning at the junction of the Duohesne and Green Rivers, thence up the Green to include what is known as Mormon Bend, thsnoe west,wmd to a junction with the Uintah road to a poiot about five miles from its mouth, thence across the Duchesne to embraoe the bottom lands to a point opposite the mouth of White River, and thence np the Green River, inclddingall the islands in the stream, to the plane of beginning. This takes in a considerable portion of the best bottom and hay land in these valley6 and in close proximity to the agency. It is, we think, desirable that the Indians should, so far cts prsot,ioahle, occupy all of the available Imds in the vioinity of the agency, and we regard the land inoluded in this reserva-tion as very important for their use and their future peace end prosperity. It is un-fortunate that the military authorities should have considered it necessary to take so nlueh of the bottom aud hay land in the immediate vicinity of the agency. We beg to suggest thst it would, in our opinion be of greet advantage to these Indians if the sotion of the military in designating thkr reaervatian could be reconsidered and their reservetion established at a ggreder distance from the agency. The improvements made by the military at this point are. only of a temporary character, and while we have no special knowledge of their necessities, it seems to n s that they could be sta- |
