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Show important service or friendship. I have thought it to be my duty to inform the department of all matters calculated to produce excitement or dissatisfaction among the Indians. With this view, I have made you the several communications relative to matters and things here - I shall continue to do so as circumstances may occur. And while I confine my statements to facts, I feel confident I shall be sustained by the department. I shall, in accordance with my previous advices to the department, leave in a few days for the Humbolt, where, if I find it necessary, I shall establish an agency, as it is no doubt, the most important point on the route. If it should be necessary, and any good can be effected, I will extend my trip as far as Carson Valley, near the line between this Territory and California. If I should not succeed in establishing friendly relations with these Indians I shall, on my return, have it in my power to give the department such information as will enable them to act more advisedly in'future. At present but little is known, except that they are murdering and plundering every train that passes the road. As the Treaty of Laramie has given security to emmigration which is annually passing to California and Oregon, and which at present is attended with so much danger and loss of life and property. The Indians in this section, have had but little intercourse with the Whites, and what they have had, has rather tended to excite them against the Whites, than to creat friendship or respect. The first were a set of traders and trappers, whose practice was to cheat them out of what little they possessed, or take it by force when able to do so - the Second was the Mormons, who forcibly took possessions of their country, drove off their game, and killed many of the Indians - the last |
