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Show raf Mil has -DECIDEDLY 10UGH ' J03 MAD Of II Will Undertake to MaKe Navajo "Bock;" Go 1 ' to Work. WASHINGTON, Sept. ..-r-Navjo Indian "Bucks" should atop atttadiag daaee feast aad "chirkea pull" cele bratiosa and derate atteatioa to sheep railing aad blanket weaviag according ' t report received at the Indiaa bureau which point ot that the Navajo "susws" r t he grub getters. Th Iadisa bureau is gathering information infor-mation from the Indians and front tra-drrs tra-drrs with whom they deal as to the extent ex-tent of th Navajo sheep aad blanket Industry. It 1 believed the report will how that this New Mexico-Arizona trio of "red men" sell nnnually be. . twe MOO.000 and -5(H.tH0 worth of blanket. Th government wants to teack them the value of improving this I adust rv and of raising a variety of sheep whirk will gir them better wool tha they obtain from th native (beep ther ao use. It is estimsted that tb Navajo have l.OOO.OtNi sheep, of which 80 per cent are astiv. Fully to per cent of th tribe liv from son work connected With th sheep and blanket industry. Practically all th hlankrt are made bv th sflusws. who, with th children, also do-winch of the wnrk of sheep herd in sd shearing and wool carding and pTaaiag. Oa report said that if the ''bucks ' would help th women mnke blanket!, they could eara on an average AM, a year to a family, which is mere taa the average salary of the white families of this reuatrv. Another report re-port declared that "generally peking. ta at a a ia aot a produrtiv factor ia th two great industries of sheep raiting rait-ing aad blanket weaving." On reason whv the government hss dctd.d te help the Nsvsio in hit blanket blan-ket industry is beeaus imitations have appeared on the market; wherefor the Navaio is t be rged ta keep up the quality af kit product. |