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Show w UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, A ^p ''•• Uintah Agency, *** July, 15th, 1893 7 Hon.D.M.Browning Commissioner of Ind. Aff airs, /'• y/y Washington,D.C. A 7 A Xi A::'-' ':' •Z Sir:- AY; ''',.- • '.' •' ''' 7 '' - A A' I have the honor to report concerning my trip to the south line of the Uncompahgre Ute reservation; to try and settle the dispute between the cat tie-men,and Red-moon,s band of Utes;That I started friday the 7th, inst, x accompanied by Mr, Smith Clk. and Curtain Farmer, also, Inds. Chief Chavanah,Interpter,Henry James, Capt. Wy-as-ket,and three other police,after a hard ride of two days, we came to Red-moons camp about sixty miles south of the Agency, and as near as I could tellftwenty miles off the reservation, where he and some twenty other Inds. were keeping about a \ thousand horses; no cattle: Red-moon has always been accostomed to resort to thia place for his summer range, and while there was but few cattle on the range there was no difficulty in living ther peacably; but as is usualf. the cattle men have crowded in there so thick Of ldte> that it has become a question of Hu)ater*ana Range rights": and continual disputes come up between the Whites and Indians, I find too that' the White mens cattle come down on |
