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Show 8 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS PERSONNEL REDLAS~~CATIONs.u-cTce~s~s or failure of any institution or organization is determined more largely by the character of the per-sonnel ernplo @there.bly than by any other factor. Modern, well equipped bllihings contribute to the efficiency of any school, or in-stitut~ onb, ut they are unimportant as wmpared with the personnel. In any undertaking in which the human element is the important one to be wnsidered and to be developed and improved, as is the case in the work of the Indian Service, the personnel must have not only human sympathy and vision but thorough, practical education and training and also experience. To make it possible to attract workers of this character to the Indian Service and to hold them with any-thing like permanency has been one of the greatest of difficulties to overcome because of the very low salaries offered and paid by the Government to Indian Service employees. Being one of the old bureaus of the Government, salaries were extremely low when com-pared with bureaus organized more recently, or as compared with salaries paid in the businees or educational world, therefore thc recent enactment of legislation providing for the reclas$fication of salaries of employees of the Federal Government, which will mean equalization and reasonable increases, is cause for great encourage-ment among all employees of this bureau, whether employed in the Washin on office or in the field service. With f etter salaries provided it is ex ted that increased efficiency mill follow and that a con &%on in the number of em-ployees will be racticable. %$have already beAn taken to effect this redudon w%ch is an economic necessity in view of the Govern-ment's plan for lower INDIAN LAND INTERESTS . . . . . . A ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ r n s . -yLeaars atl lotments were made and. approved to individual Indians embracing lands on. various reservations as shorn in the following table: , , . : . . Pmt Inde ndenoe, Cdir ...... Pond du I%. Yinn ........... Isech Lee. Mim ............ Fwamon6 Nev ................ ... Riser Nev .......... :. Fort ~erth0dN. . DaL ........ Klamath, Oreg ................ Urnatilla O r.e.g. .....l....... warm ~&ings, ore. ........... . , ~~ ~- ~ 40 lla ls 'crow reek,'^. ~ a k.;.. ....... ' 1 &W 3 1% 15 Lower BmU 8 DaL 17 ' 3.234.78 1 80.W Rwbud ::8::.:: b::I:&. ... 1 l m W 4 40. W ~ t ~ n d l n ~ ~8. oD&aL. .. ...... 1 lBO.W a 4o.w 7 Qutnlaelt wesh ............... 1 80. MI PQ 1K4823.28 Owld?, *is ................ ... . 1 . 45. W 7 870. W -- ..a L889.m Totd, ._l ................ Ma 189,953.53 1 1W.W In addition to. the foregoing, 1,171 allotments were made, on schedules not yet approved, 40 the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont., covering ap6 r o.x.i'.m ately 550,000 acres or nearly 500 acres for each Indian; also a otments to 91 Indians of the Kalisi pel1 Reservation, Wash., each Indian to receive approximately 40 acres of agricultural land. Allothnents are: being made to the non-removal Mille Lac Ind~ansi n Pine, Mille; Lacs, and Aitken Coun- |
