Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-04
FORT WORTH. TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 4. 1886


the combined areas Of the states OF New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
Connecticut, The proceeds 81 which az 1
per cent. per annum would Yield ia inter-
est over 81 GOO, 900. With two OF the
smaller reservations, Devils Lake aud
South Mountain, with an area OF 2TG, ts0 |
acres, aud population Of over 1900
nearly oEe-hah the land would be re-
quired by the Indians, so In this case the |
income from the surplus would
be small, being little less than
$4,000 per annum. The Montana Black
feet reservation contains over twenty aud
q half million acres and population Of
less than 1000 Indians, aud the surplus
land equal to the area OF the state of
Maine would then return an income of
81, 0o0, 900. The Grow reservation could
In similar manner be made 20 produce
annually tie sum of $228. 00o Consider
Ing all the Indians aud all the reservations
10 the territories Of Dakota aud Montana,
we have an aggregate area OF over fifty
four and half million acres and popu-
lation Of less than 10000 The surplus area
of 81 900 square miles would produce in
annual interest over 50, 500,0 900 The APP
preparation Tor the tscal year ending June
80, 1885, for fulfilling the treaties with
these tribes and Tor their subsistence and
civilization and the pay of employees Incl
dent TO such an undertaking, amounts To
about 100000 less than this sum.
In Wyoming, from the Shoshones
located upon Wind River reservation,
Sill, 900 per year could be derived from
their surplus land, In Idaho, Fort Hall
reservation, occupied By the Bannocks
aud Shoshones, would In the same way
produce each year $4,000. C@ur dc
Alene reservation, S2s0 900. In these two
territories Of Wyoming aud Idaho the
total area Of the reservations is nearly
1--WE million acres, the total population
nearly G000. An area Of nearly 1900
square miles, almost equal 10 the state of
New Jersey, would not be required for
the Indians, and an income would be
! yielded of about S285,000 sum more
than 100000 10 excess OF the approprla-
ton for the current year. In Oregon the
most populous reservation Is that Of
Klamath, with over million acres, but
with less than 1000 inhabitants. II would
yield over 500, 900 year. In Washing
ton Territory the Yakamas, about 5000 in
number, occupy q reservation of 500, 900
acres, and here the surplus land would
bear but $4,000 year. In this state
aud territory the reservations, with u to-
tai population Of about 10000, embrace
8, 400, 900 acres, or about seven and one
half million acres more than would be
required by them under the
plan proposed, which would
produce per annum $4,000
or about $500 600 more than that amount
appropriated for these Indians. The diff
ferent bands of the Utes in Utah and Col.
orado number about $3.50, and their reser-
vetions include over tive million acres Of
which the surplus portion would produce
a yearly income of about S240,000, OF
about $4,000 more than Is
being disbuTsed this year for
their beneht. In New Mexico
The Navaiq.f have now 100000 acres
for population Of $4,000 people
Herethe surplus land would yield over
SS30,000. For tho surplus lands OF the
Mescallers Apaches reservation, the in
come would be nearly $50 900. In Ari.
IONA the principal reservation is the
White Mountain, embracing more than
1900, 900 acres, with a population of about
5000 Carrying out the proposals of my
report would leave balance OF
considerably over 100000 acres
with, according to the plan adj
vocated, about $4,000 per year
lAOUklutIiuEt AOllNtllNtiNf Nhf llNithh0 VI
New Mexico and Arizona, we Raye reser.
vations embracing $4,000, 900 acres, inhab.
tied by nearly 80, ZOO people, the surplus
land would include about l $500, 900 acres
which would yield, according TO the plan
proposed, nearly $G40, 900, "a sum greater
by $3.50, coo than that appropriated for the
current ar for the support OF these In
dams In the Indian Territory the
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe, Kiowa and
Comanche and Wichita reservations en-
braces over 100000 acres, with popu
lation of 1850, so the income from the
surplus land would come within $3.50 OF
equaling the amount appropriated. Con
sidering all the Indians in the territory
we have total of 81, 1000, and total ex-
tent OF the reservations of $780, 0l
acres, which would produce an annual In
come Of about one and one-third million
dollars.
The Indian reservations OF the United
States contain about 200, 900 square miles
with a population OF about 100000, ther
26,000 square miles would locate eacl
family on half section Of land, leaving
a surplus of 10000 square miles, which
according 10 the plan have proposed
would produce annually S4,4s0,000, and
this amount exceeds by about $G60,00(
the entire sum appropriated for the pay
1Inent Of their annnties, aud for their sub
sstence and civilization The ulti
mate development of the suggested policy
would, as the Indians advance In civilian
tion and intelligence, result In return u
them Of the principal derived from The
sale of their land, which until such q
measure was authorized by act OF con
gress, would be held as trust for theil
benefit and the income applied TO theil
support.