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Show themselves temporarily by the sale of their baskets, as did also the Mohaves, Apaches, and some of the Mission Indians. The demand for native Indian work has very largely increajed dnr-ast five years. The production has also increased, but not %f!?m&. For instance, in many parts of the country, owing to the practical extermination of game, there has been a great falling off in the production of beaded buckskin work, moccasins, leggings, etc., but in these localities this falling off has usually been made up by a corresponding increase in the lumber of woven bead articles made. There is no way of exactly estimating the amounts realized by the Indians from the sale of native products, these sales being made partly through Indian traders, partly direct to easteyn dealers, and largely, especially in the Southwest, by individual l?dla?s to tourists: dealers, and curio hunters. A communication received in the Office says that the president of the Santa Fe Railroad made the statement that the sales of lndian goods at stations along his lines have increased 1,000 per cent in the last ten years and that similar statements have been made by officers of the Southern Pacific road. The Mohonk Lodge, Oklahoma, sold $5,213.24 worth of Indian wares last year, as compared with $1,500 worth a few years ago. Mr. J. W. Benham, of the Ben-ham Indian Trading Com anv, states that in their four stores they did a gross business durin t%e . ast year of about $140,000, the bulk of which was ~ndian-ma& goo&. Mr. Frank Covert, of New York, a dealer in Mexican and Indian goods, says that last year he bought, either directlv or through vost traders. $10.000 rvorth of Indian goods pro er, as against $3,060 morth five ago. &e Flambeau Lumber Company, of Wisconsin, handled last year about $2,000 worth of lndian goods, as against three or four hundred dollars' worth five years ago. In a letter to this O5ce they ytated: <'We handle mostlr their baadwork. The demand for material of this kind has increised considerably the past few years, and we can dispose of all me can procure." An Indian post trader at Ganada, Ariz., repol* that lie sold last year $29,000 worth of Indian blankets and baskets and $7,000 worth of silverware made by the Navaho sil versmiths. He states that he has kept at work during the past year 325 weavers and from eight to ten silversmiths. Mrs. F. N. Douhlc-day, of New York, who has long been interested in improving the condition of the lndian, last year disposed of $18,000 worth of natirc products intrusted to her personally by the Indians for sale. Many Indian women and girls in the Southwest are doing good work in lace makin taught them by the missionaries. The Albuquerque school is teazing blanket weaving and lace making. In the North, espe-cially in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, the Indian women conduct a profitable industry In making bead belts, hatbands, etc. These incidents are cited especially to show that the Indians, both men and women, realize the necessity of doing something for them-selves, and are cooperating with gov~rnmentaleffortsto raise them to a self-supporting, nondependent condition. The amounts quoted above as having been paid them last year would indicate that the proceeds of their native wares form a substantial addition to their incomes. A number of the schools have given hearty support to our effork to have the children become proficient in the arts and crafts of their parents. A great deal has -already been accomplished, hut much |