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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1902)
2 CHEMAWA AMERICAN. ($lt i&lftmawa mtricaif. H. L. Lovelace, Man ao bb. Published Weekly or ihe Pupils of the Chemawa Indian School. &uberif,tnn Price, 26 Cent Per Year, Gluhg of Ave and oor 20 Cents pr fnr. Entered At the PoBtoffice at Chemawa, Or. as second-class mail-matter. Address all Hustuesfl Commauicatl mtt to Thm Chrmawa American, Chemawa, Oreoon. II is now a sure, thing. What? Oh, that new 126,000 brick dormitory for the large buys. Thanks to dear old Uncle Sam for hiti liberal dealings with Chemawa. The Puyallup school is expecting a hig slice of pie from this congress lu the way o'appr prlatlona for Increased attendance and new buildings. We hoe they will uot he disappointed. The Puget Sound Indian Guide has just punned lis litst mile post and is starting out on the second volume. The American congratulate Its young brother and the Puyallup School in the good work it is ac complishing and the able manner in which it is being conducted. We wish we could give onr friend at Haskell Borne of our surplus rain, because the Leader says that is all that is needed to Insure an anundance of vegetables. At Chemawa we have all the rain and some times more than is needed to make our gar den produce ahundanttly. We are of the opinion however that garden require a great deal of tickling with the hoe to be healthy and vigorous, irrespective of rain. The Creek Indian Lands. By Charles Gibson. The Creeks have, I think, more farming lands than anv of the other Indian nation, according to size. I nm informed by good men who ate in a position to know, that the bottom Ian Is of th South and North Canadian and other Urue oreeka that have bottoms to them a half mile wide, more or lean, are worth from $50 to $75 an aore. The Verdigris river bottoms are said to he among the best. snd here. The Deep Fork river bottoms are not as good farming land as the other streams. Farming lands ou our prairies are not as strong as the rich hotton-i, though in spots all over our prai. rieacau be found fine farming lands. Our prairies, though, are No. 1 grazing lands. Home of onr timbered lands are verv good, but a great deal of our timbered landB ars p or, though very good g'Hsa lands. Re member that there are very few acres of our eouti try that are destitute of grass. Thar is a range of timbered mountains running about north and smith cleitr through the Creek nation, very near the cmtei of ihe ration. This is not very desirab'e land, ai the timber U mostly seruhpostosk. Thew mountains are from two to eiuht miles wide. There are a f. w deer ai.d tin keys In the mountains. On the west si'le of the range is a large creek called Wewa ka, which has some flue bottom landi. Near these rish river bottoms, as in other countries of like nature, the lands are sick ly: the uplnnds or prairies are about as healthy as In other piairie countries. Ihe uplands or prairies produce good corn, ny forty bushels in a fair season. This land will raise fine wheat or cotton. It will raise trom 1,200 to 1,800 pounds of cotfu to the acre In a good season. Our pitotttit lands raise the finest tobacco. Potatoes sweet and Irish, grow finely here. Sugar cane also does well here, Some three years ago there came an overflow on the two Canadians, and a great deal of the old farms were thrown away after the sand settled on them. These farms that have been abandoned would produce the finest
