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Show Young and able-bodied and old and iniirm secured these wages and each Indian made approximately $50. Some families with grown children earned $100 or more; one family earned $450 for the sea-son's work. After the bean-picking season was over, the Indians, as a rule, went to other ranches and picked hops and prunes. Reports from places where Indians are employed show that their services have been very satisfactory. It would seem that when an Indian decides to work he works well and renders full value for hi wage. IRRIGATION. For successful cultivation of the lands on which most of the In-dians live in the West and Southwest irrigation is a prerequisite. In the year 1910 I reported that over $5,000,000 had already been spent to bring a little more than 300,000 acres of Indian lands under ditch. For the year 1911 Congress appropriated slightly in excess of $1,300,000, all but $259,000 of which was made reimbursable to the Treasury when the irrigated lands are in successful cultivation and the Indians have become self-supporting. In keeping with our determination to give tlie Indians every op-portunity to become industrious, at least $145,000 of the year's ex-penditures by this office were paid to Indians for labor. Further-more, the Reclamation Service, on the four projects it is constructing for the Indian Service, paid out $169,000 for Indian labor. On the other hand, only $17,000, or a little more than 2 per cent, of the ex-penditures of the office were used for purposes of administration; thii sum included the expense of inspecting the important works. Important construction was carried on at Uintah Reservation, Utah, where canals and laterals were completed for the delivery of water upon 2,000 additional acres; at Wind River, Wyo., where the Ray and Collidge ditch systems were extended; and near Shiprock, N. Mex., on the San Juan project, where during the year water was delivered to 600 additional acres actually farmed by Indians. At Crow Reservation, in Montana, over $63,000 of tribal funds were spent, of which almost a third was charged to maintenance; at this reservation the item of maintenance was abnormally heavy because worn out structures erected 12 and 15 years ago had to be replaced. The concrete structures, reinforced concrete syphons, and steel flumes, which are now being installed in the service, will, in the future, con-siderably reduce present high charges for replacement on the few projects that have not been recently constructed. At Fort Hall, Idaho, also, much important work was accom-plished; the hydraulic earth fill and loose rock dam on the upper Blackfoot River was almost completed, and among the concrete struc-tures erected was a reinforced siphon 4,500 feet long. For the |