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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEB OP INDIAN Al?FAIBS 27 plete cessation of logging and milling operations during the re-mainder of the'fisml year 1925. However, $186,460.24 was collected as insurance on the property burned and an act approved March 4 1925 (43 Stat. L. 1330), appropriated $275,000 for the rebuilding oh the mill. The construction of a modern reinforced concrete mill is now in progress and i$ is expected that milling operations will be resumed in the spring of 1926. Under authority of an appropriation contained in the Interior appropriation act for the fiscal year 1925 a single-band sawmill has been constructed at Redby, Minn., on the Red Lake Indian Reserva-tion, and during the sawing season of 1925 over 4,000,000 feet of pine timber rill be manufactured at this mill. It is hoped that an enter-prise may be developed at Redby that will not only afford employ-ment for a lar e number of Red Lake Indians but will return a substantial pro f t on a commercial basis. The Interior appropria'cion act for 1925 also contains an item of $25,000 for the construction of telephone lines from the nearest rail-road points to the agencies at Sells and Reams Canon in Arizona. The construction of these two telephone lines, each about 75 miles in length, was completed early in June, 1925. Standard equipment was used and the long-desired means of communication with the out-side world will assist materially in the carrying on of the work at these two agencies. Steps have also been taken for establishment of telephonic communication with the Havasupai Agency and for re. building, on a standard basis, of lines to the h'avajo and the Western Navajo Agencies in Arizona. PUEBLO LANDSBOARD The act of Congress, approved June 7,1924 (43 Stats. L. 636), pro-vides for the creation of a board, to be known as the '' Pueblo Lands Board," to be composed of three persons-one as the re resentative of the President, the other two as representatives of the 8 ecretary of the Interior and the Attorney General. The duties of this boanl consist in adjusting and uieting title to Pueblo lands in New Mexico between settlers and the % ueblo Indians. Mr. Roberts Walker was appointed as the President's representative, Mr. H. J. Hagerman and Mr. Charles H. Jennings to represent the Secretary of the In-terior and the Attorney General, respectively. The board has effected an organization and is now activelp employed in its field duties at Santa Fe, N. Mex. The expenses of the board are provided for in two special appropriations (43 Stats. L. 756 and 1028), amounting in the a eregate to $58,500. NEWP OR K INDIACLN~ IMS. -SOof~ t~h e tribes of the Six Nations Indians of New York, claiming that the sale of certain of their lands to the State of New York was ille al, are seeking to recover large sums of money from the State. It f ss been reported that attorneys or ohher representatives of the claimants have assessed members of these tribes in New York and individual Indians in Oklahoma, Wis-consin, Canada, and elfewhere, in sums as much as $25 per capita for the urpose of obtaining funds with which to institute suit; and that u$ e ~ tsh e assessments were paid the names of the Indians 84371-263 |
