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Show COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 19 logging operations on areas previously contracted were much,below normal. To meet the urgent requests of allottees of the Qulnaielt Reservation in Washington that they be permitted to realize funds from the timber on their allotments, a tract, designated on the Po~nt Grenville logging unit, was offered and sealed bids received on March 30, 1922. This unit, corn rising approximately 305,000,000 feet, was sold to the M. R. Smith E umber & Shingle Co. Immediately after this sale another unit of 305,000,000 feet, designated as the Cook Creek logging unit, was offered. The market showed great improve,ment in the Grays Harbor region soon after the offerlng and a bld of $4.35 er thousand for cedar, spfnce, and Douglas fir was received. In geptember: 1921, the logwmg operations of the J. S. Stearns Lumber Co. on the Bad ~iverkeservation in Wisconsin were com-pleted. From the commencement of logging operations in 1894 this company had cut from this one reservation 1,267,579,303 feet of tim-ber, from which the Indians had received approximately $7,000,000. A small amount of timber on this reservation sold to the Bell Lumber . Co. has not yet been cut. During the year logging operations were conducted by contractors on the Lac Courte Orellle, Red Lake, Coeur d'Alene, Colville, Flathead, Spokane, Tulalip, Klamath, and Jicarilla Reservations and the Indian Service manufactured at the Menominee Indian mills in Wisconsin about 15,000,000 feet of lumber. The losses from forest fires during the year ending June 30, 1922, were very small. Recent months have witnessed a renewal of logging activities on several reservations. An early recovery of the lumber market seems now assured and preparations are being made for the consummation of timber sales on reservations occup~ed by Indians needing funds for industrial development. SUPPRESSION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Since the coming of national prohibition the Indians do not obtain intoxicating.liquors as easily as heretofore and the results have been very heneficlal to them. The Indians are doing better work, crlme has decreased, and progress is evidenced by increased industrial activities. The liquor problem among the Indians now involves the illegal manufacture of ,dangerous and poisonous concoct/ons which are demoralizing and injurious to health. The protection of the Indians from,intoxicants,is now largely a problem dlstlnct from national prohibition and is in need of special and clirect attention from the Indian Service. The approprlatlons by Congress for sup-pressing the liquor traffic among Indians have been materially re-duced each year diminishing from $150,000 in 1919 to $35,000 for the past year. Buch special officers and facilities as can be provided from the appropriation are distributed in localities where most needed. The prosecutions are principally agalnst bootleggers and persons operating moonshine stllls. Wherever possible the enforce-ment officers work and cooperate with the local and State officials, which has proven to be very successful. Many preparations ordi-narily intended for medicinal purposes hut containing a large per-centage of alcohol are offered to Indians at enormous profits. Many illicit stills have been ra~ded and the operators vigorously prose-cuted in an effort to protect the Indians from the evlls of the illicit traffic in intoxicants. |