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Estimate of Costs of Transportation and Subsistence in the Removal of 500 Emigrating Cherokees from Their Residence in Georgia to the Point Nearest Their Destination That a Steamboat Could Reach.-
From their dwellings in Georgia to the bank of the Hiwasee river
42 wagons will be required for 10 days, which at $2,50 per day is 1050,00
[illegible], about 100,00
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Total for Land Carriage…..1150,00
To the foot of the Muscle shoals, required 20 flat Boats
Then are 15 on land, cost of repairs at $10 each___150,00
To be purchased 5 Boats at $57________________285,00
Pilotage over the Shoals at $10 per Boat 200,00
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Total for transportation by flat boats 635,00
By Steam boat to the end of the route, avoiding to Cheethams
Proposal, the cheapest offered, at 7 Dollars per head_____3500,00
Baggage, estimating for each emigrant 100 lbs @ $1,~ __ 500,00
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Total for steam boat transportation $4000,00
Total for transportation $5785,00
Allowing for delays by obstructions in ascending the Arkansas and in consequence of the Steamboat stopping short of the point of destination, I reckon the time, from the departure of the emigrants from Georgia, to their arrival at the Agency West of the Mississippi, at 45 Days.---
Number of Rations required __22500.__
Cost per Ration, by Contract _7 ½ cents_ 22500x7 ½ = 1687,50 [underlined]
Total for subsistence $1687,50
Total for transportation and subsistence $7472,50
Also, contingent for the above mentioned delays, [sequence of dashed lines] 600,00
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$8072,50
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From this sum there will be something to deduct for the value of the flatboats (too uncertain to be estimated) when they reach the foot of the Shoals.--
By carting all, over what can go in the 15 boats, on hand, directly to the foot of the shoals, something may be saved also, should there be no use of waters to cause delay.--
Calhoun Jen. W. L. McClintock [signature]
December 20, 1831 [illegible]
Capt. W. L. McClintock
estimate for transportation and subsistence of 500 Cherokees from Georgia to the point nearest their new [underlined] county to which a steamboat can reach.
dated. Decemb. 20 1831
Rec. 4 Jany. Agency for Removal & [illegible] of Indians
Calhoun Jen. Dec, 20 1831
Sir,
I send enclosed herewith an estimate of the cost of transporting and subsisting Five Hundred emigrants, the number proposed, by the superintendent, to be removed during this winter, in addition to about 130 expected to convey themselves at their own expense, the estimated cost being previously paid to them.
The commutations to these [illegible] will amount to about $2400 including those for their horses, which, added to the $8072,50 on the estimate, will exceed the sum placed to my credit in the Bank, by nearly $500.- But as the steamboat will not be paid for till my return, there will be no changes of my being in want of the funds till that time.-
In estimating the price of the Ration at 7 ½ cents I suppose the price of the flour to be from $42 to 5-- Pork $7 to 7 ½ per barrel-- which I judge, from the imperfect information I have been able to obtain, to be about the present market price, in this country.-- Pork is not usually packed in barrels, in this part of the country, but sold in bulk.- The lowest price, now demanded for it, is $3 per hundred, from which rate I fix the price in barrels.-
Br. Gen. George Wilson [illegible]
Commanding Gen. [illegible] Your great servant
- L. McClintock
Sgt. [illegible]
[Illegible]
L. McClintock
Calhoun Jenn
Dec 20th 1831
Sends estimate for subsisting 500 indians etc.
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