contract will soon be made for the construction of a diteh for the purpose of irrigating their arable land." hopod," the Superintendent of the Colorado Ageney writes, that "when suitable preparations for their subsistence by agri- culture and grazing are made, these tribes will gradually their roaming, and bccomc permanently settled." It would highly probable that under those conditions the half- starved creatures wonld be only too is now ten years since they were of miserable staryation every winter, trying to raise a little corn here and there, and begging to have a farmer and a black- "It is to be ccase secm glad reported to be in a condition to cease to roam. It smith sent out to them. They are now dividod and subdivided into small bands, hunting the buffalo wherever they can find him, and going in small parties because there are no large herds of buffaloes to be found anywhere. The Governor of Colorado says, in his report for 1863, that "these extensive subdivisions of the tribes caused great difficulty in ascertain- ing the really guilty parties in the commission of offences." Depredations and hostilities are but it is manifestly unjust to hold the whole tribe responsible longer being frequently committed, for the acts of a few.

Things grew rapidly worsc in Colorado. Those "prepara tions for their subsistence by agriculture and grazing"-which it took so much room to tell in the treaty-not having been made; the farmer, and the blacksmith, and the grist-mill not having arrived; the contract not having been even let for the irrigating-ditch, without which no man can raise any crops in Colorado, not even on arable lands-many of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes took to a system of pilfering reprisals from emigrant trains, and in the fights resulting from this effort to steal they committed many terrible murders. All the tribes on the plains were more or less engaged in these outrages; and it was cvident, before midsummer of 1864, that the Government must interfere with a strong hand to protect the emigrants and