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Valley of the Mississippi and its navigable tributaries, and apply to it such 
differences for one year only, the saving makes such enormous figures as to make 
the most extravagant estimates of the cost of the improvement appear quite in- 
significant. Indeed, the benefits derived from the aid granted railroads afford 
no comparison with it. 
Another fact which bears strongly upon this branch of the subject is that 
the bulk of our exports consists of agricultural products. According to state- 
ments made by Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the 
Treasury Department, products of agriculture made up $500,000,000 of our ex- 
ports in 1882, while products of manufacture made up but about $103,000,000. 
And what is more inportant in this connection was the further statement of Hon. 
Joseph Nimmo that ninety per cent of this agricultural product came from the 
Western States, that is, the Mississippi Valley States, the other ten per cent being 
presumably the cotton of the Gulf States and the wheat of California, for the east- 
ern and manufacturing States consume all their agricultural products and more. 
Such being the facts in this case and such the benefits to be secured it seems 
that there should be no hesitation on the part of Congress to make the appropria- 
tion, especially since the treasury is in a plethoric state, and Congressmen are 
puzzled to know what to do with the money or how to prevent its accumulation 
without cutting off duties which would leave important industries to suffer. It 
certainly seems that there should be no hesitation on the part of the people, and 
that their duty to themselves clearly points to the demand that their members of 
Congress should make this river improvement a matter of paramount considera- 
tion, or give place to others who will do so. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
RELICS OF THE SANTA BARBARA INDIANS. 
REV. STEPHEN BOWERS, PH.D. 
Point Concepcion is 250 miles southeast of San Francisco. Here the shore- 
line of the Pacific trends eastwardly, and for the distance of nearly 100 miles 
runs nearly due east and west. Parallel with the shore-line and about thirty 
miles distant is a chain of islands, four in number, the smallest of which is but a 
few hundred yards wide and five miles long. The largest is twenty-two miles 
long by about five miles in width. The counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura, 
including the islands, embrace the territory in which Uved what we may denom- 
inate the Santa Barbara Indians. Further out in the ocean are other islands once 
inhabited by Indians, but whether they belong to the Santa Barbara stock is not 
known. 
