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It was not appreciated also that staple markets could not be liad 

 immediately for whatever crops were raised and that time is required in 

 developing good markets and in discovering- those crops or varieties which 

 are most profitable under the existing conditions of soil, climate and trans- 

 portation facilities. 



Under a policy initiated by the Secretary of the Interior, James R. Gar- 

 field, an agreement was made in 1907 between the Office of Indian Affc 



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Results of Irrigation on E. C. Stevens' Ranch, Fort Peck Project. 



and the Reclamation Service, and certain irrigation work on Indian reserva- 

 tions, authorized by Congress and provided for in appropria- 

 B--inging tions under the control of the Indian Office, is being performed 

 Water to the bv the Reclamation Service. The Indian Projects in ^Montana 

 Lands of the are the Blackfeet (122,500 acres'), the Flathead (152,000 acres), 

 Red Men. and the Fort Peck (152,000 acres). Plans and estimates for 

 proposed work are prepared by engineers of the Reclamation 

 Service and reviewed by the Office of Indian Affairs, and if concurred in by 

 the Secretary of the Interior the work is prosecuted by the Reclamation 

 Service in accordance therewith, the cost being returned to the Reclamation 

 Fund from authorized Indian appropriations upon statements rendered 

 monthlv. 



— Twenty thousand families found neiv homes in Montana last year. 



