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Show 330 REPORTS OONUERNINQ INDIANS IN UTAB. The young Indians doa great dealof huntin ,hut game is very -we, rabbits being about all they pet. Formerly the ~ncksliiu%ountailr afforded excellent llentink ground, hut nlnm that h a hreo madea forest reservethe Indianshare been shut off. In fact they have not h n al lowed the name privilege ad white men havedoringthe opn game season, which I think they crrminly should 113\.e. ])per are very plcntilul on the Huckaki~r3 founrain, and heiorc it was madea mervc thrse Indians obtained most ui their living from that eourw. From a moral %randpintt h e e l n d i a~air~e irupruviuy. There hare been but few w e r of inf*,xication durin-e the v.ar . Sre;llincir.ar.ld<,~hne nnloi. and s r i u e u f anv kind are.very rare. Very respectfully, JAXE~A . B~owa, &e&d Disbu~singA gmi. The ~OXMI&~0Is~ INNDBURAN m - - REPORT OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT AMONG SHIVWITS INDIANS. INDIAN SCEIOOL6, 0~raERNU TAH, June 80,1908. SIB: I have the honor to submit my annual report for the fiscal year 1903. The ear is signalized by three things which it is hoped will be of great benefit to the ~uBians. First. The establishment of the Dixie smelter, which has alregdy supplied some hundreds of dollam in labor to them, and will no doubt conttnue to give them employment from time to time, beaides the additional benefit of a nearby market for their produce, etc., and for the purchase of their own su plies. As we expect to have two licensed traders, their i n t e e will prohahly be Eoked after by the corn-petition. Second. The beginning of their own house building, the Government furnishing a portion of the more expensive materials and some litde skill4 aid in eonst~eting, in which they are much interested, and which it is hop4 will aid tbm eatly in attainin to civilized ways of living, toward which the more enlightenzan very eagerly ?ooking. Third. The establishment of the Presbyterian Miasion. This wsa quite late in the year, and of course no results are as et visible, but the moral effect upon the Indians of having some one always with tiem who is redly and thoroughly interested in their welfare, after the removal of the school, will be moat salutary, and the effect upon the surrounding people of that spectacle will be just as wholesome, I trust. The Indians are much encouraged but for one thing. We are still troubled by the breaches of the cattle that haunt the canyon and destmy our fences and fields. We had strong hopes that this y a r would see our own range under fence and a start of our own cattle. As all the youn r men are good vaqueros and skilled in the cattle business, it would seem that a gw cattle would be of more value to fiem than a superabundanee of farm io~plements,e speclally,~th e area of cultivable land is so small that no matter how wisely and we 1 we u t~l~izt eth ere could not be sufficient produce for a living; but as yet there is no indication that this will he the ease. We have had one or two sieges of dmnkenne~e, not on the farms hut in St. George, but have not encceeded in doing anything with the offenders, for the reason that the new United States attorney takes the position that the State and not the United States ought to deal with such, which, of co-, is true; while the county officials elther flatly decline to act, or undertake d o n in such manner as amouuta to the same thing. The same is h e of all offenses, so we all perform a law unto ourselves. The school has persistently prospered in spite of innumerable ohatae14i5- eulties in the fall in gatheringln the children, and then in providing for them, our mpplies being so delayed; in difficulties in obtaining help, and many changes in the eame; for that m o n , added difficulties in clothin and housing the pupils, even though they came in slowly; the necessity of more %ormito room, if all remmed as boarders, and the absence of anything m the shape of bezing and elothiug until near Christmas. As there was no regular employee until March, and then a green hand, the super-intendent had fine opportunities, between changes, ,to turn her hand to any and all kinds of work. Spending two weeks in the cookroom, laundry, schoolroom, and dormitories, made plenty of variation from the routine of 05ce work, and with steadily i n m i n e numbers until we dosed the schoolroom work June 16. with 34 po ils.therr has T ~ s nncb nlpt gathering about an). of onr employt.m. 111 ihe huil<liuw, and much of the w,,rkdone, had neveaparilg ken of s tern omry ch-wr. The grouuJ oreupicd nr preen, ha, rerrntly been set aside fur t\t. use |