Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — Intelligent Indians. [ARTICLE]

Intelligent Indians.

The Pimas are diligent farmers and most of them wood workers. This year they raised 7,000,000 pounds of wheat, and that is about the general average of their crop.* Of this amount they sell 4,000,000 pounds and hold the remaining 8,000,000 for seed and for their own bread. The Government has erected for them a small mill on the reservation and they grind their own grain. The Pimas are also extensive stock-growers and raise a great many cattle and horses. The Government gives them the enormouß price of nine cents a pound for beef cattle on foot, and from these purchases supply some of flbe military posts with beef. They are more than ordinarily intelligent Indians, and many of them rk English fluently. On the reservaare four stores conducted by white men, but most of the clerks are young Indian men and they make excellent clerks.—[Nogales (Cal.) Herald. Potato Fritters.—Grate four large potatoes; add two well-beaten eggs, into which two Üblcspoonfuk of flour have peen stirred until snooth. Salt and fry Ike oysters