Identifier: annualreportofse973unit (find matches)
Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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paid for, but he had to pay freight onthem, the bills for which were oftentimes more than the original cost of the goods.I naturally inquired what he meant by such an enigmatical statement, when he said:Its this way; you give your Indians a hoe, a hammer, a try-square, a broom, oranything else you have for issue, and they, instead of carrying the article home, immediately bring it down town and sell it to , naming an enterprising Hebrew trader, for one-tenth its value, who in turn can, of course, afford to under-sell me or any other honest merchant who comes by his goods legitimately. Now doyou see why I cant compete with you? I saw, and immediately commenced aninvestigation, which convinced me of the honesty and truthfulness of this merchantsstatement. Since then I have stopped the issue of anything at the agency, or if anyhas been made, it was on the eve of departure for home of the donee, whose footstepswere attended by some employee of the agency, who had instructions not to lose
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TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 445 eight of liiin until he should be beyond the city limits. Since adopting this coursethis office lias not been accused of competition in the hardware business. In the last two years the pueblos of Santa Clara and San Ildefonso have hadissued to them in the neighborhood of 7,000 pounds of barbed wire. I have seensome wire stretched in Santa Clara, so there is some evidence that some of it wasput to some legitimate use; but two visits to, and fairly diligent search in, San Ilde-fonso, failed to discover a yard of wire standing in the village. A fruit ranch, how-ever, about 3 miles above San Ildefonso, is beautifully fenced with barbed wire, forwhich, it is said by the people living in the neighborhood, the owner paid the Indiansabout one-fourth its value. I have reason to doubt if that proportion of its worthwas paid for it. Hereafter the pro rata of wire belonging to a village will he sentto the teacher of that village, who will issue it under instructions f

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