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Show $2 REPORT OF THE COMMISsIONER OR INDIAN AFFAIBS math Indian Reservation in Oregon was over $750,000. Prior to 1917 no timber sales of consequence had been made on any one of these reservations, except dead and windthrown timber on the Flat-head. Thus in eight years the logging enterprise on reservations in these three States have been developed so as to produce an annual income of $1,500,000. Less important operations were conducted on the Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perce Indian lands. On the Metolius unit of the Warms rings Reservation, sold in 1922, the cutting of timber has not yet %een started. In May, 1923, logging operations were begun on the Elk and Silver Creek unit of the Mescalero Res-ervation, and during the fiscal pear $77,283.61 was derived from 20,352,720 feet of timber cut w i t h the Jicarilla Reservation in New Mexico. The only logging operation in Arizona was on the Fort Apache Reservation, where 55,774,100 feet were cut at the rate of $3 per thousand feet. Aside from the cutting of about 20,000,000 feet at the Menominee Indian Mills in Wisconsin, only limited opera-tions were conducted on Indian lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin during the year. On a unit of 65,000,000 feet offered for sale on the Flathead Reser-ration, Mont., $4.87 per thousand feet was received for yellow pine. In Washington a small quantity of ellow ine within the Coeur dlAlene Reservation sold for $6 per txousanx and about 18,000,000 feet of yellow pine on the S okane Reservation brought $3, while a large and scattered mea o ff yellow pine in the northeastern of the Colville Reservation was sold for $3.10 per thousand Pee"t. On four large units offered on the Klamath Reservation, Oreg. late in the fiscal year 1924 yellow and sugar pine brought the fo!l&ing rices: Trout Creek unit, $4.78;. North Marsh unit, $5.53; Squaw slat unit, $5.72; and Long Praine unit, $6.67. The rices of $5.72 and $6.67 are the highest that have been received for I8 amath timber and are believed to be the highest prim at which large tracts of yellow pine timber have ever been sold in Ore on, California, or Washington. Each of these contracts provides f or two dell+ riodic increases in stumpage prices and for further increases wlt in-definite limits after the first 10-year period. A large but inaccessible unit of rather inferior quality of spruce, l?r, cedar,. and hemlock was sold on the Makah Reservation in w ~ t e r nW ashinen. The steady improvement in.telephonic comqunication and i~? the lookout and patrol organization is reflected in the comparative1 small expenditures for fire suppression and the relatively insigniz cant losses from forest fires during the year. Experience in .the Indian Service, as in other branches of the Federal administration, in State work, and in private forest protection, has shown the value of thorough organization of the protective agencies. During the past year special attention has again been given %the standardization of the records as to forestry work at the vaFous agencies. Previous efforts along this line have been on1E partially successful because of lack of adequate supervision. It is e purpose of the forestry branch to devote attention to the accountinf fea.tures at agencies hereafter as may be necessary to insure bhat.t ere is an accurate and complete record as.to all expenditures and income con-nected with the administration of the forests. Nearly all of the field employees have recognized the advantages that would accrue from |