Show PROGRESS OF SURVEYING PARTY CEDAR millard illard RI co UT tuesday aug 1860 eairon DESERET NEWS dear sir having a few spare moments I 1 sit down to write you a few itne line thinking it would be of interest to you to learn how hov our party get along we have made examinations at chicken creek sevier river and arid round valleys and will close our operations in this section of the territory about the dinst and return northward continuing our examinations as we travel towards home col Stam baughs instructions were to be minue minute in in our examinations and to satisfy himself that his orders were faithfully carried out he has been beer in the field with us a considerable portion of the time our path has been over a desolate portion of the territory only surpassed ey by the Sha shanghai nhai plains of the bates 6 our company numbers fifteen in all each one appears to discharge faithfully the duties assigned him and considers con considering sideri ng the perplexity and annoyance of encountering t ring huce huse sage brush I 1 greasewood greasewood rea sewood and scrub cedars I 1 feel it creditable tatie credi creditable to say we ave have had peace in our camp kanosh and fifteen of his lug braves paid us a visit on the evening of the ath dinst they manifested at first a show of ill humor on finding a company of U S surveyors in in their country but atter alter receiving explanation throy the interpreter mr G IV Be anthey expressed ex ress themselves satisfied they remained remains over night partaking of the hospitality of the colonel Co lonel jonel and in the morning presents were distributed among among them and they departed I 1 feel satisfied having hailing haling a more thorough understanding of their relation to the government than heretofore they spoke bitterly against the former superintendent and agents for neglecting to fulfill the promises made them from time to time I 1 have seen indians since I 1 left almost entirely naked and it is somewhat astonishing that if limited appropriations for the indians in utah from 1850 1830 till 1855 1856 should render them all comfortable under the judicious distribution of the then superintendent perin why five or six times that amount from 1836 1856 till 1860 judiciously distributed tri buted should cause hunger and nakedness the time has arrived for going 0 into the field and I 1 must close yours ac J W fox |