1922 Industrial Survey of Charles Brown

"Charles Brown got his Fee Patent under the former policy of the Office and disposed of his land. He has also had certain inherited interests sold and has disposed of that. I could not learn that he ever did work. He has a Cree Indian working on his place for a share of the crop. Brown himself lives in his said spring wagon with 2 or 3 work horses hitched to it, driving about the country. So far as I can learn from him and his neighbors, his is on the road every day. It may be that visiting different people, he finds it possible to eat without much expense to himself. He had a big work team until recently. He happened to be honored by being on the Fourth of July Committee so he gave this team away to the Indians of another District in order to be rated a good fellow. He is almost like many white people who call to the house to treat them when their grocery bills are unpaid and their children barefooted. He is poorly, but he could at least stay at home and attend to a garden and some chickens and a cow and contribute something to the support of his family. I regard him as a hopeless case and explained to him that in my opinion he would very soon starve to death and the sooner the better."