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is objectionably for a military Depot. - Already the Government has [illegible] many thousands of dollars in sending, and keeping troops there to suppress difficulties, that would never have occurred, had Congress appropriated a year ago, for this reservation. The discovery of Gold and Silver mines in the ranges of mountains, on the borders of the Great Basin, make what was, three years ago, an unknown region, at this time a great thoroughfare, and the importance of averting such a calamity as an Indian War, is more pressing as it would prevent travel, and deprive the country of valuable resoures made known by the energies of our hardy pioneers.

It would be impossible to [reserve?] the Indians of the mine. Southerly portion of my District to this proposed Reservation, because the rigor of the climate is such, that it would be difficult to keep them during the [illegible] past of the year, when snow covers the ground, even if the [expense?] of removing them was not an insurmountable

objection to such a proposition.

The importance of prompt action by Congress in this matter cannot be presented more strongly than in the fact, that it can, by a comparatively small appropriation, if made at once, secure permanent place with a people who have known themselves formidable in war, and save the Government the enormous expense attendant upon an interminable Indian difficulty, which will inevitably occur -

Aside from this view of the matter, every principle of justice and humanity, demands that a portion of what really belongs to them by inheritance, should be secured to them, and that a nation as noble as ours, should lend a helping hand to these unfortunate people to raise them from their degradation.

I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Jno. P.H. Wentworth, Supt. Agent.