The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1897-01-01
OUR FEDERAL FINANCES
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES IN
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Amount by Which the Treasury Is
Enriched by Customs, Revenue
and Land Sales.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-From the state
ment Of receipts and expenditures submit
ted to congress by the secretary of tn
treasury for the last fiscal year, some i'm
portant information is obtained relativ,
to federal affairs in the Pacific northwest
Receipts from customs in the state o
Washington for the year were 1922, S94.S
in Montana and Idaho, $50, 029. 81; in Alas
ka, $S335.5S. Internal revenue receipts fol
the district including Washington were
$685. ,432.7 IA.
Sales of public lands in the state OF
Washington brought in s44, ATT. SO, divided
among the various districts as follows;
North Yakima, $2592.3 Olympia, ST., 253. 20
Spokane, $1741 50; Seattle, SIS, 175.6 sc; Van
couver, $32S5.81; Walla Walla, s1649. IS;
Waterville, $S779.9S.
Sales of public lands in Idaho during
the year brought into the treasury $50,
1898, divided among the various dis
tricts as follows: Boise, $11, 1862 Occur
d'Alene, $2S29.20; HALEY, $14, 743.4S; Lewis
ton, $4763.S1; Blackfoot, $23, 171.22.
The total sales of lands in Alaska
amounted to $1746, of which $3.50 was talk
en- at Sitka, 5000 by G. X. Ayers, clerk of
the United States court, and 1896 by the
commissioner of the general land office.
The sum of SLIGO was received from a tax
on seal skins
What the Government Paid Out.
Quite a large sum of money was dis
bursed in the northwest. Th assay office
at Boise cost the government $12. 200, of
Il tCCll 1r,N.& TO-, ,A ~;~ NJ ~~.
of Alaska cost 500, 949.5 SO. The sal
aries and travelling expenses Of agents at
the seal fisheries in Alaska were SILL
2S3.77
The expenses of inspectors of Pelagic
seal skins were $500.
Protection of salmon fisheries in Alas
ka cost $3SS9. 81.
Supplies furnished by the government to
keep the native inhabitants of Alaska
from starvation cost $14, 9O3. 20. Coal
houses We're built on the Islands Of st.
Paul and St. George at a cost of $3.50. A
refuge station at Point Barrow was con-
structed at a cost of SSS5.17. A revenue
steamer for the Pacific coast cost SIS, 500,
and steam launches on Puget sound cost
$6S11. Al.
Expenses for lighthouse service on the
wi SOdSl WtlC DIS lOllOWSs CLld-
tilla Reef light vessel, $50, SIS; North Head
light, $SO49.14; Gray's Harbor light, $685.
Al; Marrowstone Point fog signal,
$2451. ga.
Disbursements for public buildings at
Port Townsend were as follows: Custom
house, postottice, etc., $G07O.77; quarantine
station, 500, 1853. Il; marine hospital, ST.
500. 51.
River and HnrbOr Work.
River and harbor work during the fiscal
year of 1896 in Washington caused the
following disbursements: Gray's harbor
Chehalis river, "$6711.17; Olympia, $500.
On the Lake Washington waterway $1,000
was expended. On the Upper Snake river,
in Idaho, $500; on the Columbia river, at
the Cascades, $427, OO1. %; on the Columbia,
at Three Mile rapids, $500; on the Upper
Columbia and Snake, $4,000; at the mouth
of the Columbia, $127, 900; on the Snohom-
ish, $6500: on the Cowlitz, $1,000; on Will
river and harbor, $1,000; on Puget
sound, $299S. The pilot chart for the
North Pacific ocean for the year cost
$9S53. As.
Disbursements for the dry dock on Pu-
get sound were Sal, 1868. 4S.
OF the appropriation for the education
of the children in Alaska, $22, GAL. 06 was
expended. .=."
Disbursements under the head of public
lands were $12, 1879 for the office of sur
veyor general of Washington, and SILL I
1916 for the same office in Idaho. The
contingent expenses for these offices We're ;
AZ in Washington and $1277.51 in Ida /
no. The government paid out of the 8
per cent fund of the net proceeds of sale
of public lands, to Washington $2539. Al; to
Idaho, $2390. 81.
Indians Ought to Get Rich.
Indians in the northwest received the
following sums: Occur d'Alenes, $21,- /
1897; Columbias and Colvilles, $685.. %;
spokanes, $15, 1S3. SO; Nez Perces, $63, 1915 |
and other allied tribes in
$4765.17; Indians of Fort Hall |
reservation, $40, 013. 70; Lemhi agency, SILL
566. 03; Q%ui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, |
s1712. SO; Clallams, s1345. 10; Walla Walla, |
.ayuse and Umatilla tribes, $5O32. 90; va
Xmas and other Indians, $S1S1. SO. A pay !
ment was also made from the fund of the !
Perces of Idaho of $3.50, 900. From the |
proceeds of land sold on the Puyallup res !
ervation the Indian allottees received dur |
ing the year $12, $685. 20. Incidental Indian |
in Washington were $13, 1876. so; in |
Idaho, $S6S.6 5. The years expenses of the |
Puyallup commission We're SS475.44. To the |
Perces of Idaho, for the lands opened |
up to white settlers, the government paid |
s595 ,935. 05, and to the Yakima nation
IS. |
The outlay of the department of justice |
in Alaska. was 1861. 50.
The entire receipts Of the United States |
for the year were s409, 475.7S. The expendi-
lures were $434, CTS, 654. As, leaving the total
deficiency at $25, 203, 246. 10.
THE DENVER BANK WRECkERS.
Judge Hn1lett Overrules Two Mo-
lions in Thei Behalf.