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<br />0165 <br /> <br />at an early date thereafter and urged upon the govern- <br /> <br />ment the importance of continuing their efforts to se- <br /> <br />cure the southern part of the reservation. They reported <br /> <br />the miners as being present in such numbers that their ex- <br /> <br />pulsion by legal measures would have been impracticable. <br /> <br />Although Ouray, head chief of the utes, assured them that <br /> <br />the trespassers would not be molested until he heard more <br /> <br />from Washington, fear was expressed by the commission that <br /> <br />the continued presence of white people on the Indian <br /> <br />territory might at any time bring about a collision. <br /> <br />Thus it was that the following year June 20th, 1873 <br /> <br />the Secretary of the Interior, C. Delano, appointed Felix R. <br /> <br />Brunot, then President of the Board of Commissioners at <br /> <br />Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Nathan Bishop, at that time a member <br /> <br />of the Board of Indian Commissioners at New York City, as a <br /> <br />commission of two for the purpose of renewing negotiations <br /> <br />with the utes leading to a cession of that part of their <br /> <br />reservation located in the Southwest part of the territory <br />2 <br />of Colorado. The War Department was notified of their <br /> <br />appointment and requested to furnish them any needed trans- <br /> <br />portation and the commissioner of Indian affairs was re- <br /> <br />quested to prepare their instructions. These instructions <br /> <br />were sent to the commission on July 2 and included a state- <br /> <br />2. Report of the Secretary of the Interior 1873. p. 451 <br /> <br />-15- <br />