| Show adia dian n richest to iza aej of A americans S hundred thousand and red inders own of rl forests and woodlands whet IL INCOME TWO MILLIONS indian forestry For ertry lilt nt a at conducted by 40 arvic rv ic according to advanced prin cupiss cot costs u indian only 10 PT per 4 cent ent grit 11 A do you think uncle sam Is biking up for the put past wrong wrongs don the th red brot brother hert this I 1 1 interesting in gory gives an 03 11 alight inte into what i a paternal gov r it nimat now it is doing for him 94 ipuh lyn sentimentally conald consid rde ra it is generally conceded that lo 10 I 1 b poor indian li to right in the midst the pauper 11 class but when ills fits aderial OW assets are considered be he beel bees am the richest of americana americans poten 17 billj ind and per capitally speaking ind t the richest of all humans if individual indian could cash in i an equal distribution basis his rali ire of the lands live stock minerals 1 n ad forests at their present valuation ebitt i meld be immeasurably better ott off au the average white american ij the forest and lumber am t fin lenice of the national lumber association which has 1 xea making a study fit of the indian ind and incidentally reports that u the average white mans thil am the red man would possess aloi aloit at 2400 for the total indian rew antte te li is m and there are iti bit t about SW indians one of the richest of tb the indian as Is U not often brought to public Is CT don viz the indian forests As aw il amberman the indian Is collective li la exceptional magnate the bodd d indians own pol po at of merchantable timber tim beran an liner linor t factor in the american supply 1 boita o 0 foret forest products worth today at t and the young ath ath in these forest forests and the land uty hind stand on represent ab aare if this forest wealth were dl aw equally every indian in the rn matry would have about of L L P feat vre wealth alth dm awk awake to vilu value of timber illo ibe the indians began begin to realize about till the S mn yuri ago that trees represented D A and the last clash of any rw between the military and bit was in northern minnesota in IN when hen the leech lake ChIpp chippeway ewas took to the tall umber timber in bull full 06 strength when they concluded zed loners loggers who had bad been allowed the oed 1 anete of removing dead and down tu th flab from the reservation were not hag anything in the woods that coal t dead and down at least when to aigy tigy 1 I rt pt through with it IL it cost the 4 ot of right tight soldiers of the third WT regiment and the wounding of 10 doat W 25 23 others for the indians to im sm on the gov government emment that they 0 richt abt on oa the lob job of looking utter after w umber this was not an indian tim lid ww tn in a proper sense senze but was w retort resort to firms as the indians it 11 to 0 o protect their established ty right rights whether yh ether this demon arlt of force had anything to do its M aa it or not it Is 13 it fact that the a forestry and business man 10 atta nt of the indian timber lands top IM at t about that time lw bedlan bureau of th the e depart 0 ail cf of interior asserts that during a lt last quarter of the nineteenth 10 many int millions allons of feet of urn um of were ere removed from indian resen a b IOU n in 1 the states of wisconsin and of aitho without dt proper supervision the etli et cutting utting and vilt without hout adequate a bt of the interests of the in gag CO congress areu provided no funds for I 1 ion or f cpr gr the development of system w of merchandising timber the fati ant t general set act of congress a with th I 1 the timber on indian iced tlona was in ilk 1889 and author i to w wk me sale of dead vi and down bythe the indians d ans of 24 any reservation S ft of 1897 authorized A 54 u sale specially of kuch such umber on the lands it tt the tw CU he tr inn indians in minnesota i win service considers now that B ey 19 00 inbound und in principle as 16 th timber ti deliberate deUber ale injury of 0 down by 7 AM to make lt it dead I 1 it to VU surreptitious cut cuttings not t anut 1900 that IT nt congress dhority tho rity for the development tho indian aa service of a regular A I 1 organization for the efficient admin str atlon of indian timber lands at that time ax appropriated for or forestry work n the reservations in n the meantime there ig Is no doubt that a large part of the fore to rest wealth of the indiana indians was wa mimi dissipated p cited since ito 1009 hoever ho ever the forestry branch of the indian service hai has been building up an efficient system of administering timber land lands in accordance with the basic principles of the science of forestry in 1010 congress authorized the stile ale of mature green timber for the first time it then became e possible not only to protect the indian timber land lands from am and trespass tres paga but aleo also to derive from the forests an income that has financed much of the recent general industrial development en on indian reservations the indians fi f ir I altogether 7 acres of commercial forests for ats in addition to large adjacent areas of woodland the two classes of land including an area larger than the combined areas of massachusetts and connecticut the mature timber standing on these lands Is estimated at feet with a value of about the indian indians own forests of commercial importance in fifteen states but the most extensive holdings are in the far western states oregon Is 19 at the top op of the list flat of indian timber followed in rela live tive order by washington montana arizona liew ew mexico wisconsin cal If ornta idaho and minnesota the handful of klamath indians in southern oregon who are the greet gmt timber lords of the aborigines own about feet of merchant able timber standing in one of the finest tracts of virgin umber timber largely western yellow pine in the whole of the united states at present stumpage 8 ge prices this umber Is worth at least As there are only 1178 indians including a few feno flutes and bodocs associated with the in the ownership of this timber a klamath Is worth in umber timber A alone lone nearly and Is entitled to rank with the usages and other othe r plutocratic indians of the oil land reserva dons down in the southwestern corner of the united states the indians of the fort apache reservation have probably the finest body of umber timber in that state and back in wisconsin the menominee reservation reserva Uon still own a billion feet of hard and 11 soft oft timber which Is recognized as its the finest umber timber remaining in that state the indians of minnesota own sor one ne of the finest stands remaining of eastern white pine which Is now near ing commercial extinction and Is pro valuable since the establishment of the in dian than forestry service in 1010 1910 the indian lands have been administered accord ing to a policy ot of reconciling forestry principles with the present economic interests ot of the indians the reservation tion forst forestry rr problem Is not last jast the same as that of the national forests for it must be remembered that the indian forests are private property of the indiana indians held in trust for them by the united states government many of the indians too own their lands in individual allotments and in such cases their timber Is held tor for them from much the same point of view as an individual white settler would ake it if the land Is adaptable to agriculture the cutting Is clean and without a view to reforestation on the other hand in the case of the tribal forest forests the idea 1 is to reconcile the need of immediate revenue for the owners with assurance of future value of the property and here the principle Is one of perpetual lumbering only mature trees are cut and provision Is made for protecting young trees from injury during logging oper and for the cleaning up and burning of debris 0 of f logging the tim her ber la is generally disposed of to con tractors through competitive bids the he contractor hemovi removing ng the timber himself under the supervision of and according to the regulations of the indian forest service most advanced forestry Fortt F try practice it is 14 the boast of the he indian forest service that its re regulations actions governing in promulgated logging operations advanced a state as 1920 0 represent as has yet let been made in american america n forestry practice anywhere an illustration of I 1 the public or w what fat might be called the the white maws man in Is found terest in the indian forest forests which regulation N NT 10 in general of the in the discretion that provides pr orides indian forest service le MM in officer facer of the feet boo charge a strip not exceeding each side al do of streams in width on ids ads and trails and in the vicinity f cabiling cani f melni ling place places and recreation ground inny may be bo in which little or no cutting will be allowed thi provision assures the maintenance nf or values on the indian reservations notwithstanding forestry regula alons inome of lie the larrest timber sales ever made rude by the he united states toy gov crement and at the highest price prices haic haie been made of indian reservation timber in the last ten or twelve yeara years 11 tive sales 1 have amounted to approximately feet each and a dozen other others have exceeded feet each large unite units of yellow pine haic been gold sold on the klamath reservation at 5 50 per thousand feet end and on the flathead Fla theod reservation in montana at tow 00 a thousand thou sani white and comay pine of inferior interior qualey on the nett I 1 ake lake reservation in min neota have bold gold at 10 and 1303 respect hely and in a recent bale sale of nearly half halt a billion feet on tho the Quinal elt reservation in washington batern hemlock hein lock brought the unprecedented price of and cedar spruce douglas fir and other species were gold sold at 5 00 a thousand thou and the timber of three unite units of thi this reserva tion lold sold during W 12 totaled more than that feet feel from the ala math th rese resen atlon netlon alone more than thin feet are being cut each year the latest ale sale of indian timber was that of the valley creek unit in the flathead reservation in montana feet feel at 5 12 a it thousand thou ennd for the west em yellow pine and for the other timber during the pact post decade the value of the timber removed fetn fi landa lands under the jurisdiction of the indian service has exceeded 1600 annually and thia this income will pres ertly exceed the cost to the indiana indians of the commercial and forestry tion of their land lands including the pro lection of the timber from fire ere insect infestation and trespass baa has been less than annually indian indians get 90 per cent the indian forest service la Is very proud of the fact that more than 00 90 per cent ot of the gross from the indian forest has been placed to the credit of individual indian indians or tribes tor for use in their support or industrial advancement A striking illustration of the economic salvation prudent administration of their forests has meant to the indians in many cases Is found in the Jl carilla apache reservation in new mexico in 1910 the Jl carilla exceedingly poor broken by disease and wretched beyond belief were apparently nearing extinction by means of funds reared from tales of their timber they have been rehabilitated morally and physically and are now far on the roal to industrial independence pende pen dence rim the regulation regulations make it imperative for loggers in the indian forests to employ indians preferably wherever they are available and fitted for the work many hundred indiana indians thus have lucrative employment by themselves so to speak extensive valuation survey surveys have been made on a number of reserva alons and the work ie ic going ahead ax as fast as funds become available this survey besides furnishing data tor for a topographic map gives the amount kind and quality of timber the eoll sell and its adaptability to irrigation h and tann farm crop production importance of surveys the sun ays eys are am also very important in protecting the f rests from fire on ILI all the reservations containing timber of any importance telephone tone lines have been constructed from central headquarters to balious strategic points inch such as ranger cabins in the mountains and the fire ere lookouts the latter are located on high mountain points which afford a PanOm panoramic Mic view of the timber below men lien are stationed in these lookouts throughout the fire are season constantly scanning anning Rc the forests with binoculars if such discovers a fire he immediately an in observer ob erver determines its loc location ailon with an instrument known as a ire finder telephones tha information and promptly atho ho leation to the tores fores er in charge mediately dispatches a crew with tools and supplies to fight the fire the indian cervice service o operates with the forest service national forests of the department of agriculture and other agencies in fire are detection and suppression this with a systematic patrol and guards affords of rangers insurance against hervy losses coat of this insurance from fire the average halt half a has never exceeded cent an acre am the proceeds froia from the administration of the indian forests in the last amounted to twenty five lave years have about 23 and rind it Is likely that the indian forests will bring brint in around a year fear 1 for the next twenty and arid a smaller I 1 slier sum indefinitely years moreover the Pt permanent manent indian hr tor ests will contribute in a measure re to the jallits uAl lits nee of a tain though limited supply of timber in a the future fatum |
