Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-01-02
OUR FEDERAL FINANCES
EsECEEssrvs AND EXPENDITURES IN
THE PACIFIC N0EYsEN EST.
.sssaoyg1st gsy Whfcl, the Treasury Is
Enriched b. Css&tossss, Revenue
a1fti Land Sales.

w
ment of receipts ana expenditures submit
ted to congress by the secretary of the
treasury for the last fiscal year, some I'M
portant information is obtained relative
to federal affairs III the Pacific northwest.
Receipts from customs in the state OF
Washington for the year were 1892, S94.S6;
in Montana and Idaho S50,029S1; il Alas
ka, ss33355S Internal revenue receipts for
the district including Washington were
$3333.- 4s2.74.
sales Of public lands in the state of
Washington brought in $l4,4z7SS, divided
among the various districts as follows:
North Yakima, $259230 Olympia, 81, 25S3.2 20;
Spokane, $17H.50; Seattle, $l51l5.66; VAN
couyer, $32S58l; Walla Walla, $l649Zo;
Waterville, $S779,9S.
Sales of public lands in Idaho during
the year brought into the treasury So0-
1312 93 divided among the various dis
t1icts as follows: Boise, $11.126.22; Occur
d 'Alene, $2329.2o; Haley, $14, z43. rs; Lewis
ton, S4763.81; BIackfoot, $23, 1l1.22. 3
The total sales of lands in Alaska
amounted to $1746, of which $3.50 was TAX
en- at Sitlza, $500 by C. <. Ayers, clerk OF
the United States court and 1886 by the
commissioner Of the general land ottlce-
The sum of SLIGO was received from tax
Oh seal skins.
Quite a large sum OF money was dis
bursed in the northwest. The assay office
at Boise cost the government $l2.2OU, OF
which 5000 went for salaries. The gov
ernment Of Alaska cost So, ,9i953 The sal
aries and travelling expenses Of agents at
the seal fisheries i'll Alaska were $1l,-
2S3.77.
The expenses of inspectors of Pelagic
seal skins were $500.
Protection Of salmon fisheries in Alas
lla cost $3SS9,Sl,
Supplies furnished by the government to
! keep the native inhabitants of Alaska
from starvation cost $l4903.22. Coal
houses were built on the islands of ST.
Paul and st. George at q cost of $3.50. a
refuge station at Point Barrow was con-
| structed at & cost Of $S65.l7, a revenue
steamer for the Pacific coast cost $lS,5O0,
and steam launches on Puget sound cost
| $GSl1.H.
| Expenses for lighthouse service Oh the
Washington coast were as follows: UNA
| tiIa Reef light vessel, $30,S75; North Head
light, SS04314;; Gray's Harbor light, $500
Il; Marrowstone Point fog signal
| $2451.64,
| Disbursements for public buildings at
| Port Townsend were as follows: Custom
| house, postofice, etc, $G010.77; quarantine
station, $63, 1911; marine hospital, ST.
| 1881.
| River ana harbor work during the fiscal
| year of 1856 in Washington caused the
/ following disbursements: Gray's harbor
I
| On the Lake Washington waterway $1,000
-7-ss= EXP 7,5ea On tie TTnper Snake river,
in Idaho, $500; on the Columbia river. at
the Cascades, $427, 0o1,28; on the Columbia,
1T Three Mile rapids, $500; ON the Upper
Columbia and Snake, $1,000; at the mouth
Of the Columbia, $127 600; on the Snohon1-
ish, $500; On the Cowlit1, $1,000; on Viii
lana river and harbor, $500; on Puget
sound, $2998. The pilot chart for the
North Pacific ocean for the year cost
$9858.45,
Disbursements for the dry dock on Pu-
| set sound were 4l,2G3,49.
OF the appropriation for the education
of the children in Alaska, $22, 2,94t.06 was
| expended.
Disbursements under the head of public
Lands, were $12,3G7,Sf for the office of sur
veyor general of Washington. and Sill
Q97 go for the same office in Idaho. The
contingent expenses for these offices Were
| S1g71. AZ in washington and $127.51 in Ida
no. The government paid out of the
per cent fund Of the net proceeds Of sale
of public lands, to Washington $2339,41; tC
| Idaho, $2390.67.
Indians in the northwest received the
following sums: Coeur Il dAlenes ST,
1881; Columbias and CoIvilles, $685.
Spokanes, $15, ,133. SO; Ncz Perces, $63, 1880
Dwanish and other allied tribes II
Washington, $l7G5.1I; Indians of Fort Hal
reservation, $10,013,79; Lenhi agency, SILL,
56GQS; Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes
$171283; CIaIIams, $1345.19; WalIa WalIa
Cayuse and Umatilla tribes, $5032.96; va
xmas and other Indians, $S1S1.S9. 4 pay
ment was also made from the fund OF the
Nez Perces of Idaho of $150,000. From The
proceeds OF land soId on the PuyalIup res
ervation the Indian aIIottees received dur
ing the year ST., ,605.25. Incidental Indian
expenses in Washington were $13, ,l35 50; il
| Idaho, $S6865 The years expenses Of tn,
PuyalIup commission We're $S455,#. To til,
Nez Perces of Idaho, fer the lands openel
up to white settlers, the government pGtit
$5g5, ,935.05, and to the Yakima nation
$a262.95.
The outlay Of the department of justic
in Alaska was $3G51.G2.
The entire receipts of the United State
for the year were $l05 5,4I5.78. The expendi
lures were $434, SIS, ,654.48, leaving the tota