No. 6.

No. 6.
Headquarters, Eastern Dirisicn,
Cherokee Agency, August l, 1888
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Cherokee Agency, August l, 1888.


GENTLEMEN In your note Of yesterday, you
estimaro that $65 $50 will be the necessary cost
of every thousand Cherokees emigrated by land
from this to their new country.


As have already stated to some of you 10 con.
versation, think the estimate an extra VACANT one.


Take the principal item, or basis of your cal
cuiation-oDe. wagon and five saddle horses for
every twenty souls.


have already consented, with view to light.
en- the movement by land, that all the sick, the
crippled. and superannuated of the nation should
be left at the depois until the rivers be again nav
igable for steamboats,. All heavy articles Of pro-
perty, not wanted on the road, may wait for the
same mode of conveyance.


Deducting the persons just mentioned, am con-
hdent that it will be found that among ever thou
sand individuals, taken in families without selec.
tion, there are at least 500 strong men, women,
boys, and girls, not only capable of marching
twelve or fifteen miles day, but to whom the ex-
ercise would be beneficial, and another hundred
able to 60 on foot half that distance daily. Thste
would then be left, according to your basis, only
$50 individuals, most of them children, to ride,
and children are light. The $50 saddle horses po
nies would accommodate as many riders; leaving
but 200 souls to be steadily transported in fifty
ffty wagons, or only four to wagon.


Now, the wagons being large, and each drawn
by five or six horses, las must be presumed from
your high estimate Of seven dollars for each wag-
on going and returning,) it strikes me that one
such team and five horses ought to accommodate,
on the route, thirty thirtyve emigrants, inclu.
ding subsistence for day or two, from, depot to
depot.


| repeat that do not absolutely reject or cut
down your estimate (which think also too high)
In putting down the rations at sixteen cents each.
The whole expense of the emigration is to be paid
out Of appr oprintOns already made by CONGRESS-
the general surplus of which is to 60 to the Cher
okee milton in various forms: therefore, they
have direct general interest in conducting the
movement as economically as comfort will permit.
Nevertheless, for the reason stated, wish the sew
eral items Of the estimate submitted to be recon.
sidered.


remain, gentlemen, yours, respectfully.


WINFIELD SCOTT.
Messrs. John Ross, Elijah Hicks, James Brown,
and others.Agsnts &c.


aA&s NJ.