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PROGRESS OF EVENTS.
After the affair of Bear River treaties were concluded
with the Shoshones and Bannacks on the 12th
and 14th of October, 1863, 82 whereby travel on the
principal routes to Nevada and California was rendered
secure, the stipulations being faithfully observed,
and the Indians receiving in return annuity
goods to the value of $21,000 for a term of twenty
years. 83 In June 1865 a treaty was made with a
number of the Utah tribes, whereby they agreed to
remove within one year to a reservation in the Uintah
Valley, relinquishing their claim to all other lands
within the territory, receiving as compensation $25,-
000 annually for the first ten years, $20,000 for the
next twenty years, and $15,000 for thirty years thereafter.
Si Annuities were also to be granted to the
chiefs, dwellings erected for them, and lands ploughed,
enclosed, and supplied with live-stock and farming
implements. A school was to be maintained for ten
years, during nine months in the year; grist and
lumber mills and mechanics' shops were to be built
and equipped at the expense of the government, and
$7,000 voted annually for ten vears in aid of various
industries. The Indians were to be protected on
their reservation; must not make wrar except in selfdefence
; and must not steal, or if they did, the stolen
memorial, in Laws of Utah, 1878, p. 167. Geo. W. Emery, who was governor
in Feb. 1878, stated that he knew nothing of the facts, and had no recommendation
to make. Two former memorials had been forwarded, the first in
1868. House Misc. Doc, 99, 40th Cong. 2d Sess., 19; the second in 1869.
Id., 41st Cong. 1st Sess.
82 The first in Tooele Valley and the second at Soda Springs. They were
confirmed by the senate, but with amendments which were forwarded to
Gov. Doty, with instructions to obtain the consent of the Indians, hid. Aff.
Kept, 1864, p. 16. On the 30th of July, 1863, a treaty had been made with
Pocatello and others whereby the roads to the Beaver Head and Boise' River
gold mines and the northern California and southern Oregon roads were made
secure. Another treaty was concluded with the western Shoshones at Ruby
Valley, Oct. 1st. Rept of James Duane Doty, in Id., 1864, p. 175.
83 Id., 176. In his message to the legislature, dated Dec. 12, 1864, Gov.
Doty remarks: 'These are the first treaties ever made by the U. S. with the
bands of Shoshones; and it is somewhat remarkable that they have adhered
to their stipulations with a fidelity equal to that of most civilized nations.'
Utah Jour. Legid., 1864-5, pp. 11-12.
84 The appropriations were to be made on the supposition that the Indian
tribes Mould muster 5,000 souls, and were to be increased or diminished in
proportion to their numbers. Ind. Aff. Rept, 1865, p. 151.