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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. 8tatiati~~-Continued. Uintahs-Continued, Males ............................................................. 245 Females .......................................................... 213 - Total ........................................................... 458 White Rivers: Males over 18 years ............................................... 113 Fomsles over 14 years ............................................. 111 School children 6 to 16 years ...................................... 90 - Males ............................................................. 209 Females ..........................................................- 173 Total ........................................................... 382 This reservation oontaina about 2,000,000 acres. About n third or less is wailable for farming,m?atly by irrigation; the remainder is all goor1 grasing land. Much of the farm land 18 easy of aooess to water and is being used for farms, but other thou-sands of acres of exc?llent land can only be utilized by a more expensive system of ditohos than the Iudmns om or will afford. A moderate outlay wisely invested in cnnnla and ditches on these resorvatious would go fnr.tonard the civilization of these Indians an& rendering them self-sastaining. It was believed bynoerly all who rend it that the law of 36 of March last which allowed the orossing of "Government reservations" by onnab and irrinatillg ditohes in certain oases where water was abundant, applied to Indian reservations. If it is so eonstrned it would be of great benefit to this reservation, hy taking water aoross large tracts of firat-olxss farming land8 (Indian), supplying them with abundant water, in order to reach and bring water on pnblic land8 adjacent. There is now farmed in this vicinity a company, under the 1s~r.n of Utah, having the above objeot in view, vi., to carry water in a canal &om White Rocks Croek across 14 miles of reservation lands md on to public lands east of the reserve, furnishing free water to all intervening lands. It will reatlily appear how greatly this would benefit the Tnrlian lands A-uu ", Iswes and annuities.-Regular issues (weekly) of flour and net beef isre made to those Iurlians, also irreguler insues of sugar, snit, baking powder, soap, ooffeo, and occa8ion;llly bacon, amo~mting to possibly half their subsistence; olothing m d blankets, aonsistingof gingha,ms, flannels, shan.18, shoes and hose, pants and rests, coats, overcoats, dock ~u i t sb, oots and socks, fbr men and boys. An annual annuity pn,yn~enit n cash iii made, dorived from the Ute trust fund, known as 4 per cont and 5per cent fi~ndsw, hich is divided pro rat&b etweenthe oon-federated hmda of Utes, and onid out to each oer emits. the Uintahs reooivinz $13.87 and t owing to the fact that what is known as the Meeker pcnuion, smonnting to $3,500 annually, is deducted from the scaregate oortiou oeid the IVhite Rivers. to which they submit with a, surprisingly ggoddgraoe. Farming.-Next to the school, the farming muat, in my opinion, rmkas a civilizing ngenoy. For many years rvavons and farm implernouts have been issued to those Indians, and at this date their progrcsiiin farmino shows the wisdom of themeasure. Many are anite indnstdons and skillful. and ra?& excellent arona of wheat nata ~ ~~ ~.- ~ - ,- - .. , .. -, I11~.6rncH ,U ~ I g nrl l l t l v r ~ t t n l ~ l lnsn, t )ir~e~li.ltr rlocir ihnnili,. n u d ;. gor,~ls url.ltls t i r allo. I ~ 1 1 ~ t ~ i I:~tn~.o1~rttx.tl. emi:t~srp ritog 10, ~ t o ~ ! . a l ~ ~ h2Ie.u.t~lur p. o t > t . d 8 ~ , ~ 3 , ?.Oflo1 pour~lal ur~-.1.!8?a,I I I , ~ I I , IrIlTmtI .~I h+\. . 10.0) - n1mra11. I I U C ~ ~ ,~..1 ~..1..~.. .%L....Li.d._.* +< ~ t m :.,.~.~..f i v i n ~ of garden seeds, and'the fine harvest now befog &twill ;iko good account of the same. In this connection I vish t o sav that the farmars have too much ont.airln dnt,v. ~~~~~~~~~~~ the money invested in at least one additional fitrmer, wbbse time should bo devoted entirely to Indim farms. would be well n,nd wiaelo snent ~ ~ - - ~ -~~~ My indians haul n l l the agency and trsclers' freight from Price Station, on the Denver and Rio Grande (western) Railroad, distant 115milas, for whiohthay are paid $2 per hundred weight.. They like the freighting, and it is a sonroe of considerable revenue to tham. Theywill cut and haul any amount of oord wood, but the hauling of logs requires more skill and heavier horses, and they [lo natsneeeed so well; hence it is a diEcult matter to cet our annuill al1omanr.n of lowa cnt anrl hanlad hu +.I,*- ......... --.m..-...-------..- < Improvements and repa&;.s.-1n ohodienoe t o office letter and circular of July 22, 1890, in regard to butchering, I immetliately began repairing and refitting |