Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-12-11


army officer, be created to perform the
duties now devolving upon the COM
missioner and assistant commissioner of
Indian affairs. The management of the
verse details and the advantages of an
uninterrupted policy are so apparent
that hope the change suggested will
meet the approval of the congress.
THE AsPHALTUM BEDS.
II appears that a very valuable de-
post of giIsonite or asphaltum has been
found on the reservation in Utah. occu-
pied by the Uncompahgre Indians.
Every consideration of care for the
public interest and every sensible bust
ness reason dictate such management or
disposal of this important source of
public revenue as will except it from the
general rules and incidents attending
the ordinary disposition of public lands
and secure to the government fair
share at least of its advantages in place
of its transfer for a nominal sum to in
terested individuals.
THE TREASURY.
The secretary of the treasury reports
that during the fiscal year ended June
20. 1906 the receipts of the government
from all sources amounted to $4oo,475,-
AoS IS. During the same period its ex
penditures were s434,67S 6544S, the ex-
cess of expenditures over receipts thus
amounting to S25,2o3,24s.7o. The or
binary expenditures during the year
were 4,oI5,8s2 IL less than during the
preceding fiscal year.
OF the receipts mentioned, there was
derived from customs the sum of $780,
o21,75I 81, and from internal revenue,
sI46.83o,6Is SO. The receipts from Gus
toms show an increase of S7,s63I34.22
over these from the same source for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1895, and the
re eipts from internal revenue an in
crease of s3,5S4,s37.9r
The value of our imported dutiable
merchandise during the last fiscal year
was $36e757,77o and the value of free
goods imported s4oo,o67,47o, being an
increase of $6523,67s in the value of du-
table goods and S4I.73I,o34 in the value
of free goods over the preceding year.
Our exports of merchandise, foreign
and domestic, amounted in value to
$685.. Got, o3S, being an increase over the
preceding year of S7s.o6S,773.
The average ad valorem duty paid on
dutiable goods imported during the
\ wear was 80 "a per cent. and on free and
dutiable goods, taken together, 20. so per
cent.
The cost of collecting our internal
revenues was 2.78 per cent as against
2 81 per cent for the focal year ending
Ju,e 3d. 1885.
The total production of distilled spir-
its, exclusive of fruit brandies, was
So, sSS.7o3 taxable gallons, being an in
crease of 6,63o,IoS gallons over the pre-
ceding year. There was also an in
crease of 1,443,676 gallons of spirits
produced from fruit as compared with
the preceding year. The number of
barrels of beer produced was $500. $50
as against 33,5So,7S4 produced in the pre-
ceding fiscal year; being an increase of
z,26o,446 barrels.
The total amount of gold exported
during the last fiscal year was $II2,4o9-
SAT and of silver 500, s4I,67o, being an
Iincrea of S45,e41,4 66 of gold and $751;
FAC, 3S4 of silver over the expectations
of the preceding fiscal year. The i'm
ports of gold were S23,s2s,o6s and of
silver S7S.777,r6S, being sa,S59,6os less of
gold and SS,s65,oo7 more of silver than
during the preceding year.
The total stock of metallic money in
the United States at the close of the
last fiscal wear, ended on the goth day of
Iune 1896, was ST. ,22S, 226,o3s. of which
$500, SOL, o64 was in gold and S62S,72S,o7I
in silver.
On the first day of November. 1896
the total stock of money of all kinds in
the country was S2,2ss,4Io- $50. and the
amount in circulation, not including
that in the treasury holdings, was 81
677,osS,64r. being 22,63 per capita upon
an estimated population of 100000
TIE production of the precious metals
in the United States during the calen
dar year 1905 is estimated to have been
2.2s4,76o fine ounces of gold, of the
value of St6,6Ioooo and 55,727ooo fine
ounces of silver, of the commercial
value of S36,446,ooo. and the coinage
value of S72,osI,ooo.