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box-elder, elm, and ash, except on the Wakibozo Creek, about eight miles southeast 
of this post, and running in a northeasterly direction from the river. This creek is 
very sparsely timbered with scrub oak and willow, which have all nearly disappeared 
within a short time, it being cut off for fire-wood to supply fuel in the post, under 
contract. 
The various kinds of timber with the exception of the cottonwood, are dwarfish and 
scrubby, and unfit for any use except fuel. 
The transplanting of young cottonwood trees has been resorted to within the limits 
of the post during the past two years only, with partial success, owing, it is thought, 
to the high elevation of the post above the river, the growth of cottonwood being con- 
fined principally to the low bottoms. The trial, however, has not been altogether un- 
successful, great pains having been taken to supply the young trees with a liberal 
supply of water during the dry summer weather; consequently a fair proportion of 
those transplanted are now in a healthy and thriving condition. 
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CHEYENNE AGENCY. 
Situated on the right bank of the Missouri River, about seven miles 
above Fort Sully. : 
Colonel W. H. Woop, Eleventh Infantry, says that the timber of the 
whole section of the country adjacent to the post is confined to the river 
bottoms. It is principally cottonwood. ‘Small quantities of oak, ash, 
elm, and cedar, are occasionally found. The only wood which grows to 
a size fit for building purposes is cottonwood. The other varieties gen- 
erally found along the tributaries are of a stunted growth.” 
Lieutenant R. W. Hoyt, Eleventh Infantry, adds to the above-men- 
tioned varieties willow, wild plum, and wild cherry, but says they are 
very limited in amount and of stunted growth. He further says: 
If all the forest area within fifty miles of this post were consolidated I should say 
there would be less than ten square miles. The timber in the vicinity of this post has 
decreased about one-half in amount during the last sixteen months. The increasing 
demand for wood is the occasion of such rapid consumption. ; 
First Lieutenant IRA QuIMBY, Eleventh Infantry, says: 
The decrease of timber is rapid; it is cut and consumed by Indians and is furnished 
by them through contractors to military posts and to agencies. It is also used for 
building purposes. So great is the-consumption and the supply so small that in a few 
years there will be no timber in the country within twenty-five miles of this post. 
STANDING ROCK AGENCY. 
Colonel W. P. CARLIN, Lieutenant-Colonel Seventeenth Infantry, 
says: 
There is no military reservation at this post, it being located on the reservation of 
the Sioux Indians, the limits of which are defined by treaty and executive orders, 
which, for the purpose of this report, need not be cited. 
1st. The present extent of the forest area. The forest area, strictly speaking, is 
confined to the lowest bottom-lands along both banks of the Missouri River, and nar- 
row fringes of timber along either bank of the streams running into the Missouri from 
the east and west. The principal streams running from the east into the Missouri, be- 
ginning near the north end of the reservation, are Beaver Creek, Hermapsrodite Creek, 
and a few other small creeks not known by name except to the Indians. These streams 
are all short and have but little timber along their banks. On the west side of the 
Missouri River there are numerous tributaries of considerable magnitude and travers- 
ing a country at least one hundred miles wide, besides numerous small creeks running 
from the high lands nearest the Missouri across the bench lands into the river. An 
again the tributaries of the Missouri have numerous creeks tributary to them, running 
generally from the northwest and southwest. Nearly all those streams have more or 
less wood along their banks. 
The principal tributaries of the Missouri on the west side are the Cannon Ball, Owl 
Creek, Grand River, and Cheyenne River, the forks of the latter embracing the Black 
Hills. Porcupine Creek, four miles north of this post, is also a fine little stream with 
some timber along its banks. 
In the ravines back from the bench lands of the Missouri, in the sheltered places 
