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Show E-79653-2 winter, and on }jay 23, 1911, the Department requested the War.Department not to remove the troops. ,';'' On September 1,. 1911, Captain Drees, Acting U. S. yy. ••,'p- Indian Agent; wrote the Indian Office that there were on the.former Uintah Reservation, according to the la3t census, 10,000 whita settlers, and the last Indian census showed """ " ' ' -A :'"ir- '••• 1,181 Indians, a. proportion of about tan white people to one Indian, and that the troop at Port Duchesne consisted of 69 men, and adds: "A ccmoarison of these figures rrake3 the claim that the trcops are necessary here to protect the white settlors, m absurd one." • •' • ; > .' I i L> He 3ays further, that the anxiety of the whites to retain ths troops is because of the money disbursed by thorn - about §40,000 per annum for subsistence, etc., - and that they ars not necessary now for the protection of the whites because ths Indians are quiet and give no trouble. On September 9, 1911, the War Department wrote the'Department of the Interior that the troop at .Fort . ...V,- , .' . ,. , . -.',,-.. Duchesne with the - exception of one officer and sixteen; A' enlisted men, had been relieved at.that Post but that Captain 10/ •'•• -fl ••• . • Drees' would remain on duty there as Acting Indian Agent... . / ' ft, If the Department has an Inspector, who is in that' / • " icinity, it is suggested that he be instructed to visit -. •.'.' oFt '..' "o:ky . , fy. k oOy:3 ''.; •'•'-,••'••'; '/Ff; A : |