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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 55 year 25,965,670 feet of timber were logged and 42,956,057 feet of lumber manufactured at the mill; 25,097,331 feet of lumber, 6,840,900 lath, and 2,480,750 shingles were sold, and 1,176,996 feet of lumber were used in construction. At the close of the year there were on hand 42,930,847 feet of lumber in the yards. The total receipts from all products during the year were $509,547.54 and the total disburse-ments were $411,400.83, showing an excess of receipts over disburse-ments of $98,346.71, compared to $11,200 last fiscal year. The cost of logging and manufacture compares more than favorably wit11 other mills operating on the same scale in Wisconsin. During the year an average of 219 Menominee Indians were employed at the mills and in the woods, as compared with 205 the preceding year. They earned $71,048.65 in wages. Logging operations were continued through contractors on the Bad River, Lac du Flambeau and Fond du Lac Indian Reservations, m Wisconsin, and upon the ceded Chippewa pine lands in Minnesota as well as on a smaller scale on other reservations. On the Bad River Reservation 61,897,915 feet of timber were cut, yielding $430,- 559.16. Upon the ceded Chippewa lands in Minnesota 429,720,333 feet were cut, yielding $2,987,927.37. By proclamations dated February 17, 1912, the President restored to certain Indian reservations all those portions of said reservations which were placed in national forests by proclamations of March 2, 1909, the restoration to take effect March 1, 1912. The reserva-tions affected are as follows: Fort Apache, Hoopa Valley, Jicarilla, Mescalero, Navajo, San Carlos, Tule River, and Zuni. The area covered is approximately 2,486,000 acres of land. It is estimated ihat there are 10,826,180,000 board feet of merchantable timber, 2,500,000 cedar posts, and 875,000 cords of firewood on these lands, valued at approximately $18,581,800. The value of the land itself, at a conservative estimate, is $5,000,000. There are approximately 35,000 Indians on the reservations affected by these withdrawals. IRRIGATION. The appropriations for irrigation work for the fiscal year 1912 were a little over $1,300,000, of which amount nearly $1,000,000 is reimbursable to the Treasury when the irrigated lands shall have been put in successful cultivation and the Indians have become self-supporting. Important construction was carried on at Fort Hall, Idaho, where the system has been completed with the exception of a few short and inexpensive laterals. During the year water was furnished to about 8,155 acres, showing an increase of 3,286 acres, of which increase 455 acres are Indian lands. |