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Show 226 BEPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH, .~ . - -~--.=.... .. ~ ~ ~-. , - SIR: An Npceial ngenr tenrp0r:lrilp i l l eharqe.1 h o w rho houor t u ~ ~ ~ lt~hem 1i0tl lo~- ing annual report llpoo the rondit~onufL odiou affairanr 111r Iriotnh and Ooraj Agcucy (eunwlidated) duriug tlla 89enl y c a r j n~rl o*ed. LOCATION. The Ouray Agency (recently reduced to a soh-agency) ia situated immediately on the west hank of Green River, 200 yards above the mouth of Du Chesne River, lmile above the mouth of White River, and 96 miles north of Price, Utah, the nearest rail-way or tolegra.ph station. It is the setst of the Uncompahgre Reserve, which em-br a c e~1, 93'3,440 acres, and lies wholly in Uintah County, Utah Territory. The Uintah Valley Agency is aituated on Uintah River, shout 30 miles northwest of Onrap, 90 nonh of Price, and 170 east of Salt Lake Cit,y. I t is the seat of the Uintah Reserve, which liesirumediately westof t,ho Uncompnhnre Reserve, end partly in Uintah County and partly in Wahsatch, embreoing, as, itDis understood, ell the country drained by Du Chesne and IJintah Rivers. The Unoomnahere Reeerve is a desert. Of the 1.933.440 acres nmhraaerl t.he~ein ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~~~~~ nor oac cun I,;. rc~'h;iirdo n~t o pmd~reeu crop witl;unt ki i a t iun. an>d, lor more t h o :I per r'.rlt. uf the wl!nl'. ia ~tth<:~ptibolfo iwivlg nlude prudtirtirc ilg places* #,f irriga. tlon. . \ lun~th n marcinof Dtl Cllrsne and 1.iotuh Ri\.erathcre isenuush reclai!nable land to give every 1'd&iy on the reserve a good farm. Bot mitholit %gation it ia an add Taste. In my judgment an abundant supply of mate? can be oarried within eonveuientreach of all this land at a cost of $3,000 or less. The Uintah Reserve ernbraces the Uintah Valley, which is said to be the richest and mast delieht.fn1 vallev iu Utah exeeot the vallev of the Grest Salt Lake. Rnt; ~ ~~~~ hnm, as uu th'n lIrtcsulpahgre ILcxerv~,il k*. r r in0~l l ' i sli xlit and eorertaill, und-iii rropa hal'o lo LC llradc bg irr~gatwu. Btrt llbu w.,lt:r aul,pl\ 1, a 0 a b t~n d n~2~nrd, the to~~ozrul~olfr ytl ln rouLtn. so i~cr1wtl.vi arlu!8ted to lhv vurr,ust.. t1~r.t;, I1 the hest "art of-th% viliey o m be irrigitedit eom&ntiGa light exp&sb. ' CONSOLIDATION. By act of Congress the two agencies were consolidated July 1, 1886, Onray being reduced to a snb-agency, with a clerk in charge, and Uintah baing designated as the seat of the consolidated agency. INDIANS. 'l'be I!l#liuua brlonyir~gt o the Ouray Anency RrC the l'alvequnche or Uneumpnhgn, bnrtd of Urch. JLOUI I , L G ~n I I U O ~ ~ ~ TT . ~ S IU> ~lvng~Iu<,q tl w IJinralr Agency are tlto lJ8nrsh "11d \Vl~tfeH ivcr I~and.6o f 1(t(.\ (:II,OL4II0 1 01 the for~o~~~ran~lS;;,t,1i'atrl,rbe r), 1,u;c in t,ll. CONDITION. There are no Indians within the range of my knowledge lower down in the scale of civilization than the Utes. Thov have aeaa~red some of the vices of oivilization. ~~ ~~ ~~~~ ~ ~ though but little of its ~ n l i z f ~ t ~ dmaeundt ,b ur fcw, if'uuy, of it9 virruas. scarccl,; lluli n score ui Vil.t.81~a~n d While Rivers, and not one or' t i t " IJncomp3hgt.ra, n.i:l *end Iltetrcl>il#lrr~lon rei~ool. 'I hey FCFI I I ro ir~itra(l . ~ ~ C ~ P ~ J C P O ~~ tI'~~lUdIvI: tv>t~.~on(.nt as a menace to their treaty stipnlziions, and &ery efforcat c&ilization asan innora-tion upon their vested rights. The most advanced members of thetribo barely know enoogh of the arts ofindustry to drive a team, or plant, cultivate, and harvest aorop in t h e crudest possible way. Blankets, lepgina, moccasins, gea.string-s, paint, and feathers constitute the f&shionahle or prevailiug Ute aostumc, and %he brush wiokinp or tbe cloth or skin tepee is the almost unirersal Ute habitation. There are perhaps less thcn twenty-five wooden houses in the tribe, and less then that numberof Iu-dians who are ever seen entirely in citizens' dress. As a tribe the Utes are a high-epiritrd eopls in certtsin ways. They are brave, fond of the chase, and admireraof a. good Roree and a showy dress. But at thesame time they are impatient of the rest,rsints of government, distruatfol of whites, op-posed to any sort of improvenlent and by nature nomadic l~nds3ivagein their habits and instincts. Thev are also a thkiftiftv and indenendent n.e on. le in t,heir wav. Thev - .. -~~~ an, very fund of hokrb, and t l f thea; t h q havr' large nu~nlwra, many of which n; far anperior to thv eonlvnuu Indin!# 1,oniea. It is c.rrcmntecl t h t tLn Uirttabs, \V11:rs Kirero, 2nd Unro!npul##rt~nu wn i n rhu aggregatu at lenht 12,OOU horrca and pooieb. |