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supervision and other proper timber sale expenses. 

 The remainder (92%) of the gross receipts is 

 credited to the Indians. 



"Timber is selectively logged and young growth 

 preserved in accordance with approved forestry 

 practice to provide for future timber crops. Ap- 

 proximately twenty-five sawmills are operated on 

 the reservations, including two large, modern elec- 

 trically equipped band mills, to provide lumber for 

 Indian homes, general improvements on the reser- 

 vations, and the industrial advancement of the In- 

 dians in general." 



With all their developed and undeveloped 

 wealth, many Indians are exceedingly poor. "They 

 live in dissimilar conditions," Representative Louis 

 C Cramton, of Michigan, told Congress in January, 

 1928, "some of them in the hot desert wastes of the 

 Southwest and some of them in the coldest winters 

 of the Northwest. Some of them have much more 

 money than is good for them to have or good for any 

 one to have without earning it ; many of them are des- 

 titute. Some of them are well advanced and others 

 are in the lowest condition of civilization. 



"With all of their reservations scattered over 

 the great West it is inevitable that, through human 

 agencies, occasional mistakes of administration will 

 occur. There was a time, I have read, in the earlier 

 days when we had just subdued the Indians, when 

 the West was not as well developed as it is now, and 

 when those regions were most remote from the seat 



