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Show BEPORT OF THE COM~SSIONEBO F INDIAN ~ ~ F F ~ I B S . 27 deposit to the credit of individual Indians on June 30, 1910, was $82,124.20. Ceded Chippewa Indian lands.-During the year there were cut from the ceded Chippewa lands in Minnesota 87,522,240 feet of tim-ber, 3214 cords of wood, and 1,561 posts and poles from which the sum of $524,414 was received. The total amount of timber cut from these lands to July 1,1910, was 822,722,613 feet, 4462 cords of wood, and 1,561 posts and poles valued at $5,312,334.65. The total expense of operation to July 1,1910, including salaries paid, was $224,915.56, leaving a profit of $5,087,419.69. Menominee.-During the peritd November 1, 1909, to June 30, 1910, 17,786,308 feet of lumber, 621,050 lath, and 442,250 shingles were sawed at the mill on this reservation. There were shipped and used in construction work 12,068,512 feet of lumber, 1,580,900 lath, and 1,798,850 shingles, and at the close of the fiscal year there were on hand 22,178,966 feet of lumber, 795,150 lath, and 574,750 shingles. From the sale of lumber, lath, shingles, and wood $144,- 345.16 was realized, and $6,782.70 from the sale of logs. The cost of the operations from November 1, 1909, to the close of the fiscal year was $286,004.90; of this amount $44,569.88 was earned by Indians. POPULATION. The Government no longer looks upon its duty to the Indians as merely involving an honest accounting for its trusteeship of Indian lands and funds. It considers the trusteeship of this property as the means of bringing the Indian to a position of self-reliance and inde-pendence where he may be able to accept the opportunities and responsibilities of American citizenship. In all questions relating to the management of Indian properties the problem of the Indian Office under the direction of the Depart-ment is to find that method or combination of methods which is not only transparently just and honorable, but which is at the same time educative and capable of inspiring the Indian to greater personal effort. Important progress is being made in this direction. A case in point is the commutation of annuities. The perpetual annuities provided for in the treaties of various groups of Indians have been a great bar to the Indians' progress. These annuities have tended to keep the Indian in a condition of dependence, as they assured hi of an income without labor or effort. During the past year Congress by the act of April 4,1910 (36 Stat., 269), commuted the annuities of the Sac and Fox Indians of Okla-homa and Iowa, and the Pottawatomies of Kansas and W'isconsin. An appropriation of $200,758 was made for this purpose, and provision was made authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw this |