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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