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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UT~FI. 31 9 Allotments.-No allotments have as yet been made on these ageueieu of "lauds in sersral ty." Danoss.-These Indians still love the horseriloing, the card playing and their dances, hut in this they differ but dightly from more oirilizedpeople. Theso-called " dances" of these tribes are mere imitations of t l~e i rf ormer " orgies." Shorn of about all their barbarous features they are but the oomparatively innocent reminia-cencos of their "long ago" hesthen "rites," end stand to then, in the same relation that amnsementu do to people of all depees of e~rlightenment. With allthair seem-ingly snperstitions amuseluents I have not obssrred that they have as yet descended to the level of tho " fistio arcn%." 1ndtwtries.-With all their fun-seokiug and their boating disposition theso Indians show yoasly tl nooided advance in indostrial pnrsnita. They will do all tlm daily lebur nurl hauling thnt can be fi~rnisherlt, hern and at reasonable rates. It is ser ious l~to he regretted that no church or missioner). have as yet had their attention attricted to tho nzimts of these tribea as s misaion;$.ry field. A Sabbath ~ohoo1l1 ns been faithful11 maintained by tho school su1,eriutendent andother helpers among the emplo~~4s. USCOIIPAHGRE UTE AGENCY. haviuf-~ssp:paratpe ropert,? accounts: etn., i r e for ill executh-e purposes uud& the same sxent as the Uintahrr. The trsaty by whioll the). gnro up thoir laurls and consented to remove to Utnh cont:~illod, among other dsn~ea, tlke rolloxving: "Art. 2. The United States shall permit, th* Ute 1ndi;gns to hunt upon said Imds so lony ns the game lasts and the Inailians are at pence vitL the white people." In pur$oanee of the abovo article (which the I~tdiansu nderstand a8 xoll as the wllite people) thefie Iu~linnsh ave olaimod the right, and hnl-e acted upon it ever sinoe, to t:rko an annual hunt on their old stmnping ground. This has ~6r.mri se to much pratestins, nnd Borne threats, on the pnrt of rusidents nnd rssident officinls. Annually they w111 tzlra thoir hunt, and as regalarlg is the agent plied with lsttors, telegrmns, and other ~nediulnso f ofljoial, end unoiBeial ire, to keep hi8 Indiaus on tho reservation, xvitli no other facilities for so doing than his half-soore of police, half of v~lrom are of pcrbapt upen some errand, and the reluninder eqer to be. It n.onld be aggravating, if it were not quite so mnaing to rend luau)- of the exl~ressiousi n t,lm pnblio press, of those whose informs t io~sh~o l~ldh e more correct, regarding tliia matter of "hunting atf the reser-just the plaoe tha t the 7:te loves to roan inand feel fi.er from the trin~melso f oiviii: aation. Mainly on the aljove consideration I feel oompelle~l to call the attention to the importance of nmking sowe changes in the preseut "status" of these Uneompahpe tribes. The topography of thtir reservation isnot conhlrivc to their early advanoe-msut in its present state.' The agency fir6.t s l ~ o ~b~e lredr novecl to the vicinity of the norr school buildings, and the Indiima 80 cirenn~stance<thl nt thoy vi,ould be induced to vithdraw from the desert oa the east of Green Xiver and settle on the rich alluvial lands along the lo\,-er nuchesne, m.ltero n fine ditch covering nearlj- 6,000 aorex of land has now been p r o ~ i ~ l efodr their use, and where other thotlsitnds may, with trifling cost, be made suitable for farming. This would briugthese Uteainthe sear vioinity of the school bnilllinrrs, witl~abnndauceo f goodfarmingland, to enable them to become self-wstsininp. Tllen if the "desert lands" were len,sed for grazing and mining purposes a very few rears would make a vast odds in tho advancement of these t,ribes. Ditching,-This is the "eoe" to the entire problem of western development, Indian and white alike. Acting upon this idea, a oourmission, some ten yema ago, squan-dered upwards of $30,000 in ir fntile attempt to oonstrt~ota ditoh for those Indians on White River; the dlteh failed, and the funds wore of oourse a total loss. This experience rendered it n <li8imtlt task to eonvillce the Department cf the fsasibility' of a ditoh which I propouerl to construct a short distltnoo above the junction of the Duohesne and Uintah rivers: bnt,, thongh tardy, the necessary nothority and fixnds were at last obtained; less than $3,000. 'This was to eonstroet a clitoh 6 miles in length, 6 feet wide a t bottom, and 10 :>tt op, aud2 feet deep capable of irriwating 6 000 acres of land, and to be dons with Indian labor; and it'is only as a8to$shiug 28 it is praiseworthy that thia ditoll was finished to s eon~plete soooess, within the ' meager appropriation allowed, during the months of May and June last, under the |