| OCR Text |
Show (095) George W. Armstrong to RG 75 Brigham Young Microcopy 234 Sept. 30, 1856 Reel 898 Office of Indain Agency City of Provo September 30, 1856 Sir, In compliance with your request contained in your letter to me dated 20th of August last to make an excursion westernly and south westerly among the Digger (or Goshutes) as well as among the To-se-witches (or White Knives) Indians, I would here take occas.sion to say that, that requisition has been complied with. As it was deemed necessary by your Excellency that an Agent should visit these lands from the fact that it had been ascertained th at Tij/tick has, a short term previous been among those Indians for the purpose of in listing them in his hostile movements atainst the whites, I left this city on the 31st of August last, for the purpose of fulfilling that appointment. As your Excellency deemed it unsafe for me to teach among those Indians without a sufficient guard for the protection of myself and property (consisting of some presents which you deemed necessary under the circumstances) I employed the comliment of men suggested in our letter. After traveling in a westerly direction as far as Scull valley springs in Toole County (having camped there for the night) |
