Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-01-09

and bridge bonds are properly county
 and not territorial charges; the appro- ' pIiatiors for the expenses of the last
 territorial assembly in excess of the
 congressional appropriations for that
 purpose, are in my judgment, clear viO-
 latiOn of the federal statutes. We have
 a debt when all the appropriations O.
 the last assembly Ere provided for, o'
 nearly 100000 dollars upon which ile
 territory must pay an annual interest Of
 over 5c,UOO dollars, Q result O. reckless
 ness and extrayagance of the legislative government.
 Washington, Jan. 4.-In response to a request for additional information ex- ! plauatOry Of the recommendations of his
 last annual report in regard to the In dian question, Lieutenant General Sheridan has written the following state
 ment: "Iu my annual report for 1885,
 l recommended that each Indian family
 be given and located upon 320 acres of land now provided for him by law in case of actual settlement; that the gov ernment then condemn the remainder of each reservation and buy it at the rate of SIPS per acre and with the proceeds
 buy cOY Y,rpment bolds to be hold in trust by the interior department, giving the Indians each year the interest on the bonds for their support" He cited as an illustration of what would be the practical working of this question, the case of the Cheyennes, Arrapahoes and Utes. He also made the further state ment that the New Mexico Navajos, on the reservation of the same name, have over S,OOO,OOO acres for n population of 23,000. Here the surplus land would yield over S330,000 yearly. For the surplus lands of the MescalerO Apache reservation Inc income would be nearly s20,000. In Arizona the principal reser- yation is the White Mountain with the agency at San Carlos. It embraces over 2,50O,0O0 acres. Considerable uncer- tginly exists as to its population, but probably it is about 5000 in the vicinity of the agency and 2O00 who have re- moved to the northen part and are now engaged in farming and efforts to make themselves self sustaining. The latter would however be entitled to all the benefits to Do obtained by the agency Indians in any scheme looking to the promotion of their general prosperity. Carrying out the proposals of my report would leave of the balance of ccnsidera- biy over 2,GCO,OOO acres with according to the plaE advocated about 10000 dollars per year. Considering collect ivsly tho Indians of the New Mexico and Arizona reservations, embracing l6,500,O00 acres and inhabited by near ly J3.000 people, the surplus land would include I3,750,0O0 ncrss, which would yield according to the plan proposed, nearly 610,O00 dollars, a sum greater by 3j0.O00 than that appropriated for the current year for the support of these Indians. The Indian reservations of the United States contain about 100000 square miles the population of which IS about 2G0,O00. Each family would be located upon a half section of land leaving surplus of about 1,40O,OOO square miles which according to the plan have proposed would produce annually 4,4S0 0O0 dollars. This amount exceeds by G6O,00O the entire ,.,,,, r,,,, 4EsES;ss Ma. atlr ii6f i55symen. ot cated in my report would be mosrisls'- vantageously applied gradually, the general government of the Indians being continued according tO the methods m vogue, or such improvement for them as time and experience may suggest The ultimate development of the sug gested policy would as the Indians ad- vance in civilization and intelligence re suit in a return to them of the principal derived from the sale of their lands which until such measures were au- thorized by an act of congress would be held in trust for their benefit and the in come applied their support"