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and stately forms of the trees, clear of limbs to a height 

 of 60 feet, the fresh, reddish color of the Norway and the 

 dark, handsome slate color of the white pine, and stand- 

 ing so close that an acre would seem in many places to 

 contain about 200 trees, one at first sight of this forest can 

 only exclaim upon its beauty. There are probably 

 200,000,000 feet of pine in this particular forest, of the 

 value of $10 per thousand at the present prices, and which 

 belongs exclusively to the Red Lake Indian band, now 

 numbering 1,309 persons. In other parts of their reserve 

 are probably 50,000,000 feet more. The present area of 

 the Red Lake Indian reserve is 340,000 acres, the most 

 of which is fairly good agricultural land. 



I think that most of our people would be surprised at 

 the progress being made in civilization by the Red Lake 

 Indians. They have two large and well-equipped school 

 buildings and schools, the principal one being at the 

 village of Red Lake and the other at Ponemah on the 

 peninsula above mentioned, and situated on a cleared and 

 cultivated plateau on the north shore of Lower Red Lake. 

 This band of Chippewas is under the charge of an agent 

 in the Civil Service and whose title is Superintendent of 

 Schools. 



I went from Bemedji to Red Lake on one logging rail- 

 road and returned most of the way on another logging 

 railroad, both passing through fine bodies of forest. The 

 high price of forest products in recent years has led to 

 the construction of hundreds of miles of logging railroads 

 in Northern Minnesota, which will always remain in use 

 for transportation and which are contributing much to the 

 development of the country. 



It is not uncommon now for lumbermen to cut as many 

 as 14 kinds of marketable timber in the same forest. On 



