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Show -..*......~r-*+ 32 ,&Go*= .&d,,k q.!o .ia&,,8k Ijei-il areas. h e f u l l - d a t i : f a~t h~&ic6a*.~i 1928 is not ~ ? h d f e , . it is knodbh tliat'the totkl, value of the%bumpage' cut will 'e=ceed . ...,. .., , ,. .,. :.,. . . ,. . , . 62;850,000. , ..,. . . . . . ". On July 1,1925,t he log&&d d g o$& ritioiis'on the '~en&- nee Resefiation were bpgregated frOm the'Kb8heria Ageiiy and full responsibility for dfo14stry activities on the reservation was assigned 'i t o themanager of the Menomkee Indian Mills. The~esulttst aiiikd -during the year appear to justify fully the &im to of organ&%- tion that was inaugurated April.' 1l 1'Y 908, 6ut abandoned July 1, 1910. , .. The lumbering actihty at NeopS Ii't primarily a coinmercial enterprise of an entirely different character 'from the activities of an Indian agency. The Neopit .business of more than a half lf. million dollar turnover mually is of sufficient. magnitude torequire the undivided efforts of a man specially trained in forest management and commer-cial methods. Fortunately the"?eorganization at Neopit has been c6ntemporaneous with a revival'vf interest in forestry practice in h the State of Wisconsin. The *idly crystallizing conviction of privste owners of timberlaxid in the 3ake States as to the possibilities ' i 'of, commercialIy prvfitable forest.management has aided materially in overcoming the prejudice against conservative lumbering that forinerly hampered, or even nullilie'd, attempts to apply sound forestry principle^ to the Menominee timberlands. The possibilities of future success are very encouraging. . . . ! : , . , IRRIGATION .. . . ..- EfIectiie June 30, ,1928,~ up'bvbirngE ngineer Herbert V. Clotts -6fegation district No. 4 was made chief irrigation engineer of the Indian Service. . , fiogress on the Coolidge Dam &g~~ongt~cted',acrosths.e ~ i l a 1 Rivernear San Carlos, Ark., hasbeen marked. Though the contract requires completion of the dam by Juqe 30,1929,..the present program . will result in its completiosip Ocwbqr, 1928. 'By the close of the fiscal year the domes and buttresses .of the dam were constructed to - yelevation of 2,509, which completed the buttresses but leftthe top portion of the domes yet to be construqted. .The actual pouringof '. ooncretepn the dam was started Novemb&..24, 192Ti and con&ued st&diiy throughout the. remainder of the fiscal,~lepw, ith the result ,$hat 918,000 cubic.yardi of cincret@,I$d beehplaced in the buttresses ~f the d+m, %d 65,900 in the,,do%es.! ,, I i , t h es pillways 6,400 cubic yards were placed in the floor and spillway weir; 1,650 cubic yards in $e,w.alls and guide w+; 2,500 cubic in the bridge,piei-p,&d ' 4 -w. &supp0~p:of the bridges, p d ~ .@O. .cuy~wc ds in the power h o ~ g .h: aw. .:, L,e w than 30,000 ~ubiyca rdg.yet.r?maj.pt o he plab.ed inthe darq 5 and spillway structures. |