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Show made to permit the deliverg of water at the opening of the irrigat-ing season. For complete restoration of the system the cost will be about $15,000. At Yakima, Wash., where on part of the resewation the usual con-ditions in Indian country are reversed and it is necessary to reclaim wet lands, the work of draining 30,000 acres of swamped land was actively prosecuted. A dipper dredge and two drag-line scrapers excavated a total of over 800,000 cubic yards at an average cost of 9 cents a cubic yard. This is a very low cost for excavation in wet gravel. In all 21 miles of drains were dug, freeing from water a large area, some of which is already being cultivated. At many points in the service the o5ce has made surveys and ex-plorations, which will be the basis of future developments. For example, the proposed plan for pumping water at the Colorado River Reservation in Arizona has progressed to the point where bids have been received and opened. At the Fort Mohave Reservation survey6 have been made for a levee to protect lands against overflow from the Colorado River. In the Tenino Valley, in Oregon, on the Warm I Springs Reservation, surveys proved that the cost would be prohibi-tive for reclaiming the 1,500 acres it had been thought might be made available. Reports from superintendents in all parts of the field show a gen-eral alertness concerning the Indians7 water rights. Proper steps are being taken to establish permanently rights which might be called into question. For example, statements have been prepared regard-ing water claims for all pueblos in New Mexico and filed with the Territorial engineer. It is worth noticing that the Pueblo Indians under the Albuquerque school utilize water for 8,000 acres and have 95 miles of ditches which they have built themselves. In our efforts to vest adequate water rights in the Indians the State authorities fre-quently cooperate, as in Wyoming at the Wind =ver Reservation, where the State has extended the time for final proof to 1915 and 1916 because of the large amount of ditch construction necessary in the project, and at Uintah, Utah, where the legislature provided for an extension of time to 1919. FOREBTRY. The resources in timber, particularly upon some of the reservations in the Southwest and from Wiseonsin westward to the coast, are a great material asset of the tribes. Revised estimates place the stand at 34,000,000,000 feet, with an approximate value of $76,000,000. The forests also afford a considerable means of employment and industrial training. At a few reservations the Indians are fully alive to the . value of timber lands and guard them zealously, as at Mescalero, in |