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  1. 1
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27357
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur has been very low this season - muskrats about 10 cents each, and to show what a drug in the market furs are, one reliable Indian informed me 
  2. 2
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27420
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of the reserves on Howe Sound, which were surrendered and sold to the Pacific Great Eastern Development Company. As the Squamish Indians living on 
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27371
    Year:
    1915
    ... price was nearly double, the net results were about the same as in the previous year. Last year the falling off in the yield was entirely due to 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27417
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices from 6 to 11 cents per pound, but already the shipment of grain from ... price of fur. During construction, the agent obtained employment for many of 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27341
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of furs, and difficulty in disposing of animals caught alive, made a ... prices for lumber, with the consequent brisk demand for labour, was the only 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27365
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices of fur prevailing before the outbreak of the present European war, the ... price of all fur has gone so low that only the best hunters can gain enough 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27387
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur. Farm Machinery and Implements. - The several bands in this ... prices obtained for produce have greatly encouraged these Indians. They have 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27331
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of furs. Temperance and Morality. - Like nearly all Indians, the Algonquins of this reserve are inclined to the use of intoxicating liquor; but by 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27356
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur this year, owing to the war, has caused quite a decrease in the revenue of the different bands, and made it necessary to give more assistance 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27332
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur had created the beginning of hardship, and the present condition of affairs does not promise much improvement this year in that respect 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27385
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of $104 a head. These steers at point of unloading weighed before being fed or watered 1550 pounds. In addition to this, all beef was raised that is 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27335
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur is very low. Buildings. - Their houses are fairly comfortable and fairly well kept. Some of the Indians live in cotton tents. Temperance and 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27594
    Year:
    1915
    ... price, $110, expenses, $16.80; Jackson Bros., contractors, lavatory and kitchen plumbing, $233.50; furnace, $130, extras, boiler and font, $46.30; water 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27094
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of furs has fallen to a point which is practically without parallel; this has, of course, greatly curtailed the earnings of many of the Indians 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27333
    Year:
    1915
    ... price of fur. Buildings. - Several houses are small, but suitable. As a rule they are well kept and improved each year. Only one building has been put up 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27384
    Year:
    1915
    ... price, so that their gross returns were slightly greater than in 1913. Our stockmen and their assistants during the winter gathered up all weak stock 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27100
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices; The Witzimagon Indian reserve, No, 25, in the Skeena district, in the province of British Columbia, containing an area of 950 acres, having been 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27424
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices were low on the whole, so that a good deal of it failed to find a market; but the earlier kinds had a ready sale during hop-picking time, as all or 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27377
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices were realized for the surplus beef, especially at Fort à la Corne, where the prices of three-year-old steers ranged from $75 to $90. The Indians at 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27411
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices so low just now, their lot is not an enviable one. Owing to migration and a high death-rate they are gradually decreasing in numbers. NAANEES (TWO 
  21. 21
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27334
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices are in vogue the Indians sell their cattle and they are then compelled to wait for another herd to grow, which, in the meantime, naturally entails a 
  22. 22
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27363
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices for their fur catch. However, they were told to keep at their hunting operations, as the revenue from this source would help to provide for their 
  23. 23
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27328
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices have been so low that little profit has been realized. Some have become discouraged and have devoted most of their time to seeking food for their 
  24. 24
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27405
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices lower and cash hard to get, and in quite a number of cases seed as well as the common necessaries of life have had to be provided; but it will not be 
  25. 25
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    27327
    Year:
    1915
    ... prices of fur have been lower than they were formerly, so much lower as to make the winter hunt unprofitable. Prices of goods have also risen to an almost 
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