The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-02

Denso to the owners, ana tnen tne
OF rental money afterwards.
The agency makes the contracts TOR
leases, collects the money, looks
after the improvements, pays the
to tho proper person and ISL
the adviser on problems that puzzle
the Indian mind.
AT the present time the popula-
ton OF the reservation is ITO, a.
slight increase over last year and the
year before, but only very slight.
Part of the increase is made by In
dams from other parts Of the country
being enrolled for residence on this,
the Shoshone and Bannock reserve.
They are about equally divided as to
males and females, and there are
about an equal number Of boys and
girls in the schols. There are loo
in the public schools Of Fl. Hall,
Blackfoot and Pocatello, and 200 in
the school maintained by the de-
partment OF Indian affairs at Fort
Hall and twenty-seven girls in the
Episcopal school at Fl. Hall.
On the reservation are 1856 Indians
farming for themselves with. varying
degrees Of success, ,cultivating a total
OF 1850 acres, and there are 4O2
white men leasing and farming H.
O4O acres Of land on which they paid
rentals amounting last year to $2642
besides the improvements stipulated
IN the leases. NJ
The total value Of the crops raised
by Indians in 1920, the last. year
now appearing on the. completed
record, being $175,57S, the best
farmers being listed are Roy Faulk--
ner, age thintyeight, farming 300
acres and his crops valued at $4,000;
Ralph pixey, age ,forty-seyen,- farm
ING, 2O0" acres and his crops valued
at $500 Charles Diggie, age fifty
five, farming 1875 acres and crops
valued at $45OO; Jack Browning,
age forty-one, farming. sixty acres,
and crops worth 500, The rest Of
the list OF Indian farmers shows
smaller operations down to mere un-
proftablet efforts bordering on fail
ure. the condition attending these
cases being that they do not suffici-
emily understand the value of time,
and consequently neglect to perform
the different parts of the work at
the times that it liz vital to success:
In his native state he lived more
from hand to mouth and is moved
as appetite or necessity called him,
and he is slow to- appreciate the
necessity of doing certain tasks in
April and May that .bring' no disable
food till fall. This applies only to
the slower and least provident of
them, but perhaps in greater number
than among the same number of
white persons if they were similarly
situated. -. ..---e
The main crops raised are indicated
as $3.50 bushels Of wheat, 1890
bushels of oats, 1913 tons of alfalfa,
46S tons of potatoes, 2S6 tons of
wild hay
OF the agricultural lands, allotted
to Indians. $4,000 acres are leased
and $50 acres of unallotted lands
are leased. By allotment is meant
Indians lands within the reservation
set apart for individual ownership
of the Indian named. The irrigated
lands to the number of 1860 acres
are listed as having value of $35
an acre, making a total of SAL, 800;
10000 acres of irrigable lands not
yet reclaimed but susceptible OF
reclamation, are listed at IS an acre
total 100000; grazing lands, H..
900 acres at IS, total value, $685.
900; swamp lands, 29,10O acres al
$40 an acre, $1,164,800; timber
lands good for grazing, $4,000 acres
at $40 an acre, $455,000; total value
/. Of all grazing lands listed, $2,734,
800. Stone quarries, $50 acres al
IS, $4,000. Total of all classes Of
land, 232,920 acres, $4,69S,S00.
Z. School farms of 500 acres are
valued at $22,821; agency farms O
400 acres, $14,700; demonstration
farms Of 200 acres, $3.50, tota
1920. ares of the value of $40,791
sdle agricultural lands to the extern
Of 22, $50 acres and grazing land
10 the number of 177,411 acres al
/ tied and 1870 acres unallottet
ms, 2 total of 257,141 acres; an,
arar',,r lands allotted and leased t,
,sa ,-mber OF 1888 acres an,
.a gtr- lands unallotted and lease
Al. number Of 1880 make
L s143,528 acres, making
sr,1 totaI OF 4O0,670 acres.
49, II the lands classed as agrl
Il and irrigable can be re
and farmed by putin