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1888 and 500 l)roken by them; 10,000 acres were inclosed by fences. 

 The crops of 1888 amounted to 8,000 bushels of wheat, 4,000 of oats and 

 barley, 1,000 bushels of vegetables, 3,000 tons of hay; and 500 pounds of 

 butter were manufactured. Of himber 100,000 feet were sawed. The 

 Indians transported with their own teams 500 tons of freight, and thereby 

 earned Si, 500. The two boarding-schools, one at the Klamath Agency 

 and the other at Yaneks, in the same year boarded 215 pupils at a cost to 

 the Government of Sl8,764 — about S10.40 a month per capita. 



The number of acres contained within the Klamath Reservation is 

 1,056,000, and of these only about 20,000 acres are considered to be tilla- 

 ble land. The rest is occupied by woods, mai-shes, rocks, and other hin- 

 drances to cultivation. 



The school and church interests are in the hands of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, which also has a vote in the appointment of the United 

 States agent. 



The statistics of pojnilation have furnished reliable data onl}- from the 

 time when annuities were first distributed among these Indians. This ne- 

 cessitated an annual count of each family, giving the number of the indi- 

 viduals lielonging to each. One of these was made during my presence on 

 the reserve on October 30, 1877, before the winter supplies were dealt out 

 to the tribe. The summary is as follows : 



David Hill, chief, at Agency and on Williamson River 225 



P'li'i, head chief, at the bridge, Williamson River 122 



Long Joliu. chief 1W3 



Jack, chief •. . . 92 



Lilo, chief '^3 



Total 565 



The census taken in the Sprague River Valley, Yaneks subagency, 



furnished the following figures, Klamath Lake Indians and Modocs being 



indiscriminately included : 



Littlejohu, chief . . 14 



Skoutchish, chief - • ■ 18 



Modoc Johnson, head chief '^1 



Ben, chief 61 



Brown, chief 30 



Total 194 



