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quaintance with the character and mental make-up of the Indian, 

 it should be at once apparent that co-operative management of 

 allotments as forest lands is impracticable. Many of these allot- 

 ments are held by old men and women who have never adapted 

 themselves to the habits of the white. Hundreds of them live 

 face to face with destitution. The only means that the Indian 

 Service has through which to keep these unfortunate people from 

 starvation is to derive as large a revenue as possible from their 

 timber. Another class consists of young men and women who 

 desire money for educational purposes, for the building of houses, 

 or for the purchase of farming equipment. The Government 

 would not be justified in insisting upon the practice of a highly 

 intensified forest policy under such circumstances. As many of 

 the allotments will be alienated within a few years to whites and 

 be turned into agricultural uses, the State as well as the Indian 

 might suffer a loss through the additional expense involved in a 

 conservative logging and a retardation of clearing and agricultural 

 development. Within the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Wis- 

 consin there are about 20,000 acres of lands claimed by the State 

 under the swamp lands grant which has not been alloted. This 

 land is quite generally massed in the northern half of the reser- 

 vation. Unfortunately scattered allotments have been made 

 throughout this area. The writer is of the opinion that arrange- 

 ments could and should be made under which the State of Wiscon- 

 sin might be given control of these swamp lands and might pur- 

 chase most of the scattered allotments within the area mentioned. 

 The individual Indians and the tribe should receive a just com- 

 pensation for these lands, which lie at the very headwaters of two 

 of Wisconsin's important rivers and are adjacent to the State for- 

 est reserves. 



Under the Act of March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. L. 51), and the 

 amendment of March 3, 191 1 (36 Stat. L. 1076), the Indian 

 Service is conducting logging operations on a large scale on the 

 Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin. A sawmill having a 

 capacity of 40,000,000 feet per annum was built in 1908-09 where 

 the Wisconsin and Northern Railroad crosses the West Branch 

 of the Wolf River. About this mill has grown up the little 

 village called Neopit, in honor of a former Menominee Chief. 

 The Menominee Reservation, perhaps, contains the largest body 



