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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 51 find that may be available for aeid purpose belonging to the aaid Cmw Indians: Prouided, Thst in the construction and aompletian of said irrigation ditohaa no eon-tract shall ha awarded llor employment given to other than Crow Indians or whites 'nternrarried with them, except where i t is found necessary to emp l o ~p rofa8ional skilled white labor. This agreement was approved by theDepartment August 2,1899, the sum of $100,000 of the grazing fund of the tribe was set aside for the completion of the'irrigation system, and Mr. Walter B. Hill, of New Hampshire, was appointed to superintend the work. Superintendent Hill receipted for the property used in the oonstruotion of the irriga-tion works and entered upon duty in the field August 18,1899. 1IIisoellaneous.-Most of the irrigation appropriation for the fiscal year 1899 has been expended approximately as follows: Soothern Ute in Colorado ...................................... $2,509 Uintah in Utah ................................................ 5,000 Wind River iu Wyoming.. ..................................... 1,250 Yakima in Washington ......................................... 2,400 Flathead in Montmxa. .......................................... 1,330 Pyramid Lake in Nevads ....................................... 5,700 Navajo in Arizona .............................................. 6,000 Lemhi in Idaho ................................................ 1,320 Ssn Carlos in Arizona .......................................... 2,300 Western Shoahone in Nevada.. ................................. 500 Colorado River in Arizona ...................................... 2,310 LOGGING ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS. White Earth Agency, h . - B y report of September 21, 1898, the office submitted to the Department a draft of regulations to govern the logging of dead and down timber on the diminished reservations of the White Earth Agency in Minnesota, under the provisions of the act of June 7, 1897 (30 Stat. L., SO), and recommended that, in view of statements made by the Indian agent, authority for the logging be granted. The Department directed Special Inspector Zevely to iuvestigate allegations that had been received in the Department as to illegal acts of Indians and others in the killlng of timber on the White Earth Reservation for the purpose of securing its sale under the act, but up to December 6,1898, he had not been able to make the investigation. Upon that date the Department granted authority for the Indians to engage in logging on these reservations without further waiting for the inspector's report or for reports from the agents of the Geueral Laud Office, who had been sent to investigate the alleged timber depredations, and the letter of authority stated: "The season is so far advanced, and inasmuch as it is believed that further delay in begin-ning the workof logging on tliese reservations will seriously injure the interests of the Indiaus, authority is hereby granted for the sale of the timber ill questiol~a s recommended." The Department directed, how-ever, that every precaution shoulcl be taken by specific rules and regu. lations to guard the interest8 of the Iodians, md especially that every |