REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 
 
ments on the Quapaw restricted lands, which have been of material 
aid to the Indian Office in determining the terms and conditions 
upon which the leases should be made and the requirements for 
proper mining development of the land. 
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES 
Although there were crop failures on several reservations, the 
Indians generally have progressed in agriculture during the year; 
and, while definite figures are not available, preliminary reports 
indicate a substantial increase in the number of Indians farming 
and the total acreage cultivated, largely through the stimulus of the 
industrial programs mentioned in the last report, which have now 
been introduced within 55 reservations. The five-year program 
involves definite objectives for each year and functions through 
organizations of the men known as "chapters," with women's 
"auxiliaries" in each district. There were 306 chapters with 5,219

members and 90 auxiliaries with 1,217 members, besides a consid- 
erable number of Indians affiliated with irrigation and improvement 
societies. 
Industrial surveys involving a canvass of the reservation to gather 
statistics as to the condition, resources, and needs of each family, 
were made within 85 reservations. They form the basis of the 
five-year program, which was originally adopted for the reservation 
as a whole but is gradually progressing toward a separate program 
for each family, adapted to and contributing toward the general 
program for the reservation. 
The construction of improved homes for Indians is a feature of 
the five-year program. They have been provided as rapidly as the 
Indians have evinced a desire for them and whenever funds have 
been available. Detailed plans and specifications of several types 
of suitable homes were sent to the reservations during the year with 
a circular letter designed to stimulate interest in home building. 
Opportunity for development of the home building program was 
afforded within the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, through avail- 
ability of the sum of $400,000 authorized for use by Congress from 
moneys accruing to the Fort Hall Indians for lands taken for the 
American Falls Reservoir. 
The reimbursable plan has continued to be important in- the 
industrial welfare and progress of the Indians. It involves the pur- 
chase from funds appropriated by Congress of seed, animals, tools, 
machinery, building material, etc., for sale to Indians, repayment 
to be made by them in small annual installments extending over a 
period of years. The appropriation last year was $175,000, all of 
which, except a small reserve, was authorized for expenditure. In 
North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, an effort was 
 
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