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<br />0175 <br /> <br />Mr. Brunot then explained how he happened to be <br /> <br />there. He said he had been there the year before a short <br /> <br />time while the commission of 1872 was there and was much <br /> <br />pleased by the attitude of the utes that he had urged upon <br /> <br />the President the necessity of sending the miners off the <br /> <br />reservation; and that the President had issued such an <br /> <br />order but after its issuance he had received word that the <br /> <br />utes were willing to sell that part of the reservation on <br /> <br />which the miners were located. <br /> <br />"The President," said Mr. <br /> <br />Brunot, "thought if he sent the soldiers and put the miners <br /> <br />off the reservation, it might make trouble between them <br /> <br />and the utes; and if the utes wanted to sell that piece of <br /> <br />country on which the miners were, it was better to hear <br /> <br />what the utes had to say before driving the miners off." <br /> <br />If the utes wanted to sell that place, it was of no use to <br /> <br />make trouble between them and the miners. As a result of <br /> <br />this information, Mr. Brunot said, the President had asked <br /> <br />him to come and see the utes and talk with them. Then he <br /> <br />asked to hear from the utes, and the conference for the <br /> <br />rest of that afternoon as well as the following Monday <br /> <br />had to do mostly with boundary questions and other <br />9 <br />grievances. Chavanaux, a Tabeguache Chief, was the first <br /> <br />9. The word is now spelled Shavino but the spelling used <br />in this text is the used one throughout in the Interior <br />Departments Report of 1873 and would seem to be the <br />original spelling. <br /> <br />-25- <br />