The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-10-10

rich mineral resources the whole valued at
500, OOO, 600 and easily salable at that figure
today. They produce between $o,oOOOOO and
$6.OOO.O0O worth of farm crops every year,
and their live stock Is estimated at 100000
head.
Own Millions of Acres.
Besides all this they have prosperous cities
and towns, with schools. newspapers, facto-
ries, mills and workshops in large numbers,
and SIT, O66 worth of church property. Not
counting their stock, houses, mills or factories,
but simply their land, trust funds and farm
products. the per capita wealth Of the five
tribes men, women and children, is S1,Sl2.
Certain of these tribes are wealthier tnal
others by reason of the superior quality OF
their lands. the extent and nature of their
improvements and the amount OF trust funds
held for them in the treasury. Payments OF
interest and other sums due them by the
government made every year by the
United States assistant treasurer at st.
Louis to the treasurer of each
tribe or nation, and the eX-
penditure Of these amounts is entirely under
the control of the tribes and tribal coun-
ellis.
The Choctaws and ChickasawS, living down
in the southeastern part OF the territory,
number together $1,000 people and own H.
}SS?25 acres of land of which 100000 acres
are tiabe and in addition they have due
them or in trust in the treasury S4SIl,2So III
cash. or cash per capita of SOD. Beyond
this they possess valuable property in the
shape of fiocks, herds houses, public build
jngs. schools and other improvements.
The Cherokees, who inhabit the northeast
ern part of the territory. aud who recently
sold their interest in the Cherokee outlet for
$500, coo, have due Them beside this money,
S2,63T. 900 held in trust in the treasury, or
S11 $4,000 in all. They number 26256, so
that their cash funds amount to $424 for each
individual The land owned and occupied by
the tribe covers 5,O31 ,351 acres. OF this nine
ty-tive acres per capita are arabic and SlS-
ceptible of high cultivation. The Greeks, who
live south and west of the Cherokces and
number Is 600 have 50. 900, 900 to their credit
In the treasury and own 3,040,495 acres of
land Of fine quality. The per capita cash
wealth Of the SeminOles is greater than That
of the other four civilized tribes, but their
lands are not so extensive. The tribe, living
southwest Of the Creek country, embraces
2,739 individuals. Their trust fund amounts
to 81 800 600, being $34S to each man. woman
and child. Their land covers $4,000 acres,
of which twenty-six acres per capita are til
liable.
Near by in the territory
of Oklahoma are numerous other
tribes of very wealthy Indians. Among these
are the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes. who num-
Der only 3,210. but who have 81 100000 held
in the treasury in trust and 81 100000 more
as the proceeds from the sale of some land
three years ago, making $250000o in all, or
SITS per capita. They also own Il vast body
Of land, but only nine acres Of it per capita
are adapted to agriculture. The Otoes and
MissOurias, Il small band Of 3d., also residing
in oklahoma, west of the Pawnees, have
S601 ,0S5 in the treasury, a per capita OF
81, 663. Their lands. likewise, are exceedingly
rich The IOwas in Oklahoma. numbering
go, have in the treasury $171,543, or 5000
per capita. and the Sacs and Foxes, just
east of the Iowas have 100000 in the treas
ury. Numbering only 527, their per capita
wealth is $3.50 Still other tribes in the ter
ritory, such as the POttawatomies, Kansas.
Tonkawas Absentee Shawnees, Pawnees and
Poncas are exceedingly well off.
Sioux Need Not suffer.
OFF in South Dakota is small band. the
Sisseton and Wahpeton. of the Sioux family
numbering ,522, who have 81 500, 500 in the
treasury, or SLIT per capita. Out in Utah
is body of Unes, exclusive of the White
River branch, who have $1,1J0,O00 in the
treasury, which, divided among LIB, gives
$3.50 to each.
Away up in the state Of Washington is a
tribe who are the richest in lands Of all
the aborigines on the continent They are
the Puyallups, numbering 600, the grown