UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Transcription
Many of the middle age Indians of late years have found employment on the [not legible] as section hands. For the work they get $12 per day. Their employers have told me that they are excellent service for short [not legible] of [not legible] and they will not stay longer than a month or two at a time. There are a few exceptions to this rule, not many. This road employs from 100 to 300 Indians every day throughout the year. Mr. Murphy their [not legible] [not legible] in [not legible] [not legible] every month [not legible] Indians are paid from $3000 to $12000. This is a big sum of money and renders them self-supporting. It also enables the [not legible] to dress a little better, but here the [not legible]. They [not legible] in the [not legible] old 2 [not legible]; their food is cooked and
