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occasionally committed depredations by stealing stock from citizens. In many cases however the stock has been recovered and delivered to owners. 

      Their ideas upon agriculture are few and simple, but in their way they manage to raise very fair crops.
      They are acquainted with the principles of irrigation and are quite skillful in making acquias , adobes, blankets, bridles, bits and baskets and many other articles. Until this year they have always worked well on the government farm in plowing, hoeing corn, digging acquias, &c. Large numbers of them have been employed by the Military Department, sutlers and ranchmen in making and laying adobes and other work. They usually get from 30 to 50 cents per day for their labor, and also rations.
      Nearly every family living in the Reservation have attempted to cultivate patches of their own, planting corn, pumpkins, melons, &c. but have never succeeded in raising very good crops. The Indians attribute their failure to the unproductiveness of the soil. I am