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80 wagons | $3,760
100 set of harnesses | 2,800
60 stirring plows | 720
60 double shovel plows | 360
100 forks | 75
6 mowers (old style | 900
1 threshing machine | 400
10 breaking plows | 100
[[total]] | 9,115

Leaving the U.S. indebted to the Omaha tribe on this fund the sum of $20.995.

The articles in the last list were all good (the mowers were good but of an old style) but the articles in the first list, many of them were almost useless, some entirely so.  The first harness issued could not be used of a pattern never known in this part of the country entirely too large for our small horses, the traces were made of iron instead of leather.  The parts of it that were made of leather were 5 or 6 inches wide.  We could not