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Show foei erf Executive Office, Utah Territory Great Salt Lake City, May 28th, 1852 Hon. Luke Lea. Sir. Your two letters of January 28th and Febraury 20th were received per last mail, which arrived during my absence on a tour south, being only about two and a half months since the date of the last written; another month before a reply can be started, aid the same time allowed to reach Washington making in all to write and receive ananswer, six months! This shows how we are blest with mail facilities. I do not know that you ever received my first report dated 13 September 1851, as I have received no acknowledgment of its reception. I observe that the only paper which has found its way into the annual report from Utah, is Major Holeman's, wriiten at Fort Laramine and dated September 22, 1851. This is attributable also, it is presumed to deficient postal arrangements. I wish to coorect some erroneous statements made in that report, of the truth of which at that time Major Holeman might either through misconception or misinfromation, entertain an honest belief. I allud' to the following paragraphs. "I find much excitement among the Indians in comsepquence of the whites settling and taking possession of their country, driving off and killing their game and in some instances driving off the Indians themselves." "The greatest complaint on this score is against the Mormons, they seem not to be satisfied with taking possession of the valley of the Great Salt Lake, but are making arrangements to settle other, and principally the rich valleys and |