Apaches; the Muache, Capote, and Weeminuche bands of Utes; and the Pueblos

Navajoes.-The Nayajoes now number 9114, an increase of 880 over last year's enumeration. Superintendent Pope considers this inerease to be mainly duc to the return, during the year, of a number who had been held in captivity by the Mexicans. They have a rescrvation of 3,328,000 acres in the north-western part of New Mexico and north-eastern part of Arizona, Bet apart for them by treaty of 1868. These Indians are natives of the section of the country where they are now located. Prior to 1864 no less than seven treaties had been made with these tribes, which were successively broken on their part, and that, with but onc cxcep- tion, before the Senate could take action on the question of their ratification. In 1864 the Navajoes were made captives by the military, and taken to the Bosque Redondo Reservation, which lad been set apart for the Mescalero Apaches, where they were for a time held as prisoners of war, and then turued over to this Department, After the treaty of 1868 had been conclnded, they were removed to their present location, where they have, as a tribe, remained quiet and peaceable, many of then being engaged in agriculture and in raising shcep aud goats. Of these they have large flocks, uumbering 180,000 head, whichı supply them not only with subsistonce, but also with material from which they manufucture the celebrated, and for warmth and durability un equalled, Navajo blanket. They also have a stock of 10,000 horses. These Indians are industrious, attend faitbfully to their crops, and even put in a second erop when the first, as frequently lappens, is destroyed by drouglit or frost. One school is in ope ration on the reservation, with an attendance of forty selholars.

Mescalero Apaches.-These Indians, numbering albout 830, are at prescnt lacated-not, however, upon a defined reservation se- cured to them-near Fort Stanton, in the eastern part of the Ter- ritory, and range gencrally south of that point. Prior to 1864 they were located on tlie Bosque Redondo Reservation, where they were quiet and peaceuble until the Navajoes were removed to that place. Being unable to live in harmouy with the new- comers, they fled from the reservation, and until quite recently have been more or less hostile. They are now living at peace with the whites, and conducting themselves measurably well They have no schools, care nothing apparently about the cduca tion of their children, and are not to any noticeable extent en gaged in farming, or in any pursuit of an indusirial character.