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Show Georgia increased more last year in the value of its property than in any i previous year of ita history. What an Indian is Worti Civilized. Civ-ilized. I have been at somo pains to get precise statistics of the expenses of the reservation, including all the sala- . ries except those of the military, and the value of all the supplies furnished by the government. Let tho wheat they produced be rated at $1 50 a bushel; bu-shel; corn, $1; oats, 75 cents; barley, To cents; potatoes, 50 cents; turnips, 50 cents; hay S10 a ton. The year's product, at the above rates, is then worth 1S,S03. Add to that the yearly year-ly increase on 700 cattle and 400 hogs- say 5,000 $23,803, total year's product. The year's expenses of the reservation, for everything, not including includ-ing pay and rations for the military, amount to '20.751,11. Deducting the latter from the former, we havo the sum of s?3,151,S9 as the excess of product pro-duct over expenses. In other words, every Indian on the reicrvatioo, old and young, produces an average of $3.97 a year. Were it not for the generous gen-erous yield of acorns and salmon in the contiguous streams and forests, on which a great portion of the Indians still largely live, the government would run in debt enormously, and it is certainly cer-tainly no small matter of congratulation congratula-tion that the crops produced are as .valuable as the supplies the government govern-ment is obliged to furnish. And here, too, the Indians not only cut their O'ffn wood, but also that required by tho officers of the reservation, while in Hoopa, lam told, the contractor who furnishes wood for the military is also expected to supply the civilian employes. employ-es. Ex. |