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Show REPORT OF UINTAH AND OURAY AGENCY. [Received too late for insertion in proper place.] UINTAH AND OURAY AGENCY, White Rocks, Utah, November 17. 1896. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following as the annual report of thisagency for the year ending June 30,1896: The Uintah Utes have made fine progress in farming. The plan of locating heads of families upon lauds with the intention of eventnally having the sams assigned to them under provisions of the allotment laws has become well under-stood by this hand. They are unanimously in favor of this plan and eagerly inter-ested in having it consummated. The Uintahs will accept and improve upon any advantages that are provided to enable them tolive in ways of civilization. The White River Utes residing upon the reservation with the Uintahs have here-tofore held back from accepting the proposition for them to settle in ermaueut locations, hut theobject lessansillustratedin the farmsestiLblished for tge~intahs have been effectual, so thatvery many of this baud have commenced earnestly the work of providing something for themselves, and almost every head of a family has asked to be located on farms covered by the new water ditches. The Unoompahgres who have been located upon the farms have made good efforts to do something for themselves. The season up to June 30 has been very much against this hand on account of unusually heavy rain storms, attended fre-quently with cloud-bursts whioh have inundated their farms and left their land covered with mud and dbbris. They have received this misfortune patiently and worked industriously in repairing damages and attempting to save such of their crops as there was any hope for saving. Considering the man discouraging influences working against this band they did remarkably well. *hey receive no he1 fulinfluencesfrom the people of Utah generally, and as a rule the prominent pofticians of the State ap ear to be exer-cising themselves for the accomplishment of their destruction. &e Uncompah-gres are informed of the situation sufficiently to keep them in a state of unrest and anxious suspense: which tends to dishearten them in their efforts for self-improved conditions and hopes for the future. Notwithstanding all this, this band, like the Uintahs and White Rivers, has shown appreciation of the advan-tages offered them by the agency at the present time, and they are still hopeful that the houses and other considerationspromised them in the treaty under which they were removed from their country in Colorado will yet be supplied. The principal work of the agency during the past year has been in completing the construction of the osnals and ditches for su plying water for irrigation purposes. This work has been retarded consideraby;. on account of the destruc-tive rain storms that have heen experienced generally in the mountain sections of Utah. It has, however, heen so far acoomplished that water can now be supplied in abundance for irrigating all the land that will ever he required for giving'all the Indians of this ag.en c.y farmscontaining their full allotment allowanceof acres as homesteads. Theschool at the Uintah Agency haa been successfully and profitably conducted. Nost of the parents of the children that attend this school appreciate the benefits it affords, and, while others are not enthusiastic in supporting it, there are but few Indians of the reservation that do not show it good will. The school of the Onray Agency, established for the benefit of the Uncompah-gres, has not been so successful in increase in enrollment. The children who have been gathered there have been wonderfully transformed in appearance, and have advauoed well in school knowledge. The Unoompahgres, for varions reasons, have been slow in gving up their children to the school. The teachers and employees of both schools are thoroughly devoted to their duties. The Episcopal Church, through the efforts of the Right Rev. Ahiel Leonard, missionary bishop of Utah and Nevada, has commenced work among the Indians of this agency that promises well. A beautiful little church has been erected near the Ouray school, also a neat, well-finished cottage, which is occupied by the resident missionary, Rev.Alx. West,ayoungman fromvirginia. These buildings, 618 |