Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-09-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

One of the novelties at an Idaho fair
were exhibits made by the Indians on
the Nez Perce reservation at the Lapwai
Agency. Exquisitely pointed ar
row-heads, beaded moccasins and en-
brOidered scalps, does one surmisep Not
at all. The exhibits consisted of choice
vegetables. corn of large grain and but
tcr-actually gilt-edged butter. This
year the Indians around Lapwai have
harvested 40, 900 bushels OF grain from
i, 100 acres, an average of over thirty
six bushels to the acre. 3,17O acres of
land are cultivated by them, most of the
land being along the creek bottoms,
where there is a very rich loan. The
vegetables this year will be about as
three to one of last years tillage in
quantity and the reservation agent is
tickled that his red men are self-sus-
tanning.
The first gold bullion from Alaska
recently left Sitka in the steamer Cali
fOrnia for the San Francisco mint For
many months it has been known that
gold existed throughout various por-
tions of the territory in paying quanti-
ties, and various explorations for It have
been conducted. During the Russian
occupation of Alaska the Indians from
the interior frequently brought to the
frontier trading-posts specimens Of pure
native gold, and the explorations of the
country as have since been made have
resulted in substantiating the opinion
that the country was rich in placer
mines and probably in quartz mines.
The placer mines are said to be extraor-
dinarily rich, and certain indications
lead to the belief that discoveries equal
to those in Australia during the earlier
periods of the gold excitement there will
ere long be made in Alaska.
The disproportion between the cost of
collecting the United States internal
revenue and the customs revenue is very
great. Some interesting facts appear
from a study of the amount of revenue
derived from customs and from inter-
nal revenue and the cost of collecting
the same respectively from the year 1863
to 1878. Thus during the closing years
Of the war, when the internal revenue
service had just been organized, the cost
of collection ranged only from 0.l8 to
0.29 per cent. for amounts increasing
from S37, ,787 to $269, ,464, ,2l5, while
the cost OF the customs revenue was
from 400 to 6.29 per cent. in collecting
from So9'0o9,642 10 $l02,5 l52. Then
Lne cost Oh collectlng the internal rev
enue s6 rose as nlgh as 5.5o per cent. IN
1911, nut Ieli aIterWard 70 2-99 ana S-96
per cent; lor loII = ana o doIo, the amount
e0ileeteu eoi &c, Deing 9IIo'ooo;4of ana @llV'-
ool,oSf Ig9specllvely. MeanWhlle tne
Iosl el culeIelnS lne customs revenue
nas loI t1le last III nVe years fangea Pc
Nv cen -. a1id ailu 4So per cent, wlil1e the
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pnuu;o
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