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Show cattle, 200 goats, 900 work and 5,000 range horses. _ost of the latter should be gotten rid of at any price that can be obtained for they are an injury to the range. Stock is fed here four months in the" year. There is no tribal herd, lilore and more of the Utes are taking- to sheep from which iaro cash crops can be gotten in a year, whereas it requires, four years to realise on a steer. The care of the sheep, however, must be constant and 7/hare there are onlv a -p--,-a,na-ii Tl :yr to take care of them th work is too confining -and too meticulous far an Indian. nevertheless, I belieare I can sea salvation far the Indian in sheen - with ultimate 7/ea.lfla for a few. Tlae samerin-hold here. The^ lease question is aa unsolved problem Rera as at .many other agencies - too. many Indi-ns, instead of cultivating"^ their land and becoming valuable members of the community, lease it for just enoi'F- to enable thera to drag along half starved without working, a. burden upon their more enterprising relatives.. Health Situation. It is reported that there are 20 cases cf tuberculosis and 100 of trachoma. - also that the trachoma has not been treated by the Ro;: method since Ray, 1325. fro: |