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Show . . 30 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The steady expansion in timber sales on Indian reservations dur-ing the past decade has resulted in the receipt of an income that has enabled the service to establish the Indians in various enterprises on the Flathead. Fort Apache, Jicarilla, Klamath, Menominee, Mes-calero, Red Lake, Tulalip, and other reservations of incalculable value to the advancement of the Indians industrially, socially, and morally. RAILROADS AND HIGHWAYS. During the year no important railroad right of way has been ap- @ied for or granted. However? the local and State highway author-lties have continued their activities in providmg new and improved roads across Indian lands, and approximately 80 permits for the opening of such roads have been issued. Several applications for water-power sites are pending before the . Federal Water Power Commission under .the act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. L., 1063), but no projects of importance affecting Indian lands have as yet been approved. ROADS AND BRIDGES. Good roads constitute one of the most important factors of prog-ress among the Indims as well as the whites. Congress makes no general a propriation for work of this nature on the Indian reser-vations. s t therefore becomes necessary. to draw upon our regular appropriations for the support and civilization of the Indians, except in the comparatively few cases where specified appropriations have been made for particular reservations. Such appropriations were available during the year, as follows: For roads on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, Calif., $10,500; the San Juan Reservation, N. Mex., $11,000; and the Taholah Reservation, Wash.. $17,025; for bridges on the Leupp Reservation, Aria., $3,500; the Blackfeet Resefvation, Mont., $10,000; and the Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., $25,000; and for roads and. bridges on the Red Lake Reservation, Minn., $10,000; the Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak., $25,000; and the Sho-shone Reserv~tionW, yo., $25,000; a total for all purposes of $137,025.. The two bridges near the Iaupp Agency, Ariz., for which appro-priations were made two years ago (one across the Canyon Diablo, and the other across the Little Colorado River), were completed dur-ing the year. The appropriation of $10,500 on the Hoopa Valley Res-ervation, Calif., was for continuing work on the road from Hoopa to Weitchpec which was begun several years ago. It is expected that this work will be completed during the present year. It will open up a hitherto almost inaccessible country and connect with the county road system off the reservation. The appropriation'of $11,000, at San Juan, N. Mex.. was for the completion of the highway from Gallup to the Mesa Verde National Park across the Navajo and San Juan Reservations. This road has been completed. The appropria-tion of $25,000, at Cheyenne River, S. Dak., was to cover our part of the cost of a bridge across the river of that name in conjunction with the Bureau of Public Roads and the State highway commission under the Federal aid road act, the total cost being approximately $119,000. |