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Show I mPORT OF THE C O M M I S 8 I O ~O F INDIAN AFFAIRS. 9 teams during the last season. .On May 14, 1910, 133 teams with In-dian drivers and other Indian laborers without teams were at work I on the project. The drivers earned from $3.50 to $4 a day, and the laborers from $2.%4 to $2.40 per day. 1 The Ute Indians on the Uintah irrigation project earned $16,815.56 last season. This showed considerable progress among these Indians, inasmuch as during the preceding year they earned only about $3,356.48. For the month of April, 1910, these Indians earned $4,992.89 on irrigation work in addition to a very satisfactory amount in mining and other projects. The total earnings of the Ute Indians on various projects this year were $26,476.82. The district about Phoenix, Ariz., furnishes employment for a large number of Indians in ditch and railroad construction, mining, and general farm work. The monthly reports of the overseer for the past year shows payment to the Indians as follows: October, $14,579.65; November, $14,966; December, $16,078.12; January, $14,699; March, $21,967.25; April, $20,694.94; total, $102,714.96. The report for March, 1910, represents the earnings of 593 Indians. Total earnings for the year, $189,733.94. The number of Indians employed in logging and milling opera-tions on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin averaged 236 per month for the year; their total earnings for that period amounted to $70,179.68. The sugar-beet district about Rocky Ford, Colo., furnished em-ployment for a large number of Indians, most of whom were boys from the Indian schools in the Southwest. The amount earned by these Indians during the past season was $19,868.80. This work is of great educational value to the boys, as this districtjs one of the best irrigated agricultural districts in the country, and all the boys come from irrigable sections of the country and from reservations having little or no opportunities of this kind; thus their work will be of the greatest value to them when they ultimately settle at home. The assistant supervisor at Rocky Ford has his work well organ-ized. He is in close touch with his entire district by telephone, and is equipped to take care of any that are sick. He is in a position to provide employment for Indians, especially returned students from all reservations within a reasonable distance from Rocky Ford. Ar-rangements have been made to place a number of boys with good farmers where they can work during the winter and attend public sohools. HEALTH. The Indian Service in its health work is not ammg merely to more effectively care for and cure those that are sick. The reduc-tion of the death rate is not its primary intereat It is working |