Letter from Garland Hunt to Brigham Young, December 31, 1855

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Creek. Thence East 12 miles to the top of the Wasatch mountains. Thence South 12 miles to Willow Creek. Thence West 12 miles to a point opposite the mouth of Sanpitch Creek. Thence North to the beginning. This reservation is quite contiguous to the favorite hunting grounds of the tribe, and borders in the Sevier River which affords an abundance of Mountain trout. The arrival at Manti in the evening of the same day, and on the following morning had an interview with Arra-Pine and a large number of his band who were camped in the vicinity of that place. We made a short speech to them on the importance of learning to farm. We told them that the deer and antelope were getting scarcer every day and the time would soon come when the Indians would be obliged to starve if they did not learn how to work and raise wheat and potatoes, and have cattle and sheep to Kill when they were hungry. I told them that it was the desire of their Great Father that they should settle on the land and work it as his people did, and if they would do so, there were a great many things for them to learn that they could not learn if they continued to roam about from place to place as they had done. I dwelt more particularly upon the prospect of having schools among them to teach their children how to read and write as many of them had seen our people do. When I had concluded, the Chief was snxious to know if we could learn his people how to mind (?) their grains as the Mormons did; I told