32      EPORT "OF -THE SEORET"fT    THE P1lfttv6±t 
head areas. While full data for the fiicaI year 1928 is not avalable, 
it is known that the total value of the' stumpage cut Will 'exceed 
$2,50,000 
On July 1,1927, the logging and milg operations 'on the Menomi- 
nee Reservation were segregated from the Reshena Agency and full 
responsibility for all for6stry activities on the reservation was assigned

to the-manager of the Menominee Indian-Mills. The-results attained 
during the year appear to justify fully the return to a plan of organiza-

tion that was inaugurated April'1,908, but abandoned July 1, 1910. 
The lumbering activity at Neopit is prmarily a commercial enterprise 
of an entirely different character from the activities of an Indian 
agency. The Neopit 'business of more than a half million dollar 
turnover annually is of sufficient magnitude :to require the undivided 
efforts of a man specially trained in forest management and commer- 
cial methods. Fortunately the 'i erganization at Neopit has been 
contemporaneous with a revival"of interest in forestry practice in 
the State of Wisconsin. The rapidly crystallizing conviction of 
private owners of timberland in th jake States as to the possibilities 
of' commercially profitable forest management has aided materially 
in overcoming the prejudice against conservative lumbering that 
formerly hampered, or even nullified, attempts to apply sound forestry 
principles to the Menominee timberlands. The possibilities of future 
success are very encouraging. 
IRRIGATION 
)Effective June 30, 1928, Supervising Engineer Herbert V. Clotts 
.f irrigation district No. 4 was made chief irrigation engineer of the 
Indian Service. 
Progress on the Coolidge Dam being.construeted across the Gila 
River near San Carlos, Ariz., has-been marked. Though: the contract 
requires completion of the dam by June 30, 1929,,the present program 
will result in its completion in October, 1928. By the close of the 
fiscal year the domes and buttresses of the dam were constructed to 
an elevation of 2,509,, which completed the buttresses but left the top 
portion of the domes yet to be constructed. The actual pouring 'of 
concrete gn the dam was started November 24, 1927, and continued 
stlegdily throughout the remainder of the fiscal year, with the result 
,itat 918,000 cubic yards of concrete bad been placed in the buttresses 
of the d4m, and 67,900 in the domes. In the spillways 6,400 cubic 
yards were placed in the floor and spillway weir; 1,650 cubic yards iu 
tewalls and guide walls; 2,500 cubic yards in the bridge piers. and 
w41 supports of the bridges, and 3,500,cubic yards in theD power hose 
ha71 J. Vess than 30,000 cubic yards yetremain to be placed in the dam 
and spillway structures.