This occasioned more office work in this particualr line than in former years. Much inquiry is being made at present relative to the sale of inherited Indian lands. The excessive and continuous rainfall for about nine months of the year makes exceedingly bad roads, interferes with outside industrial work, and retards the development of the country. The remaining three months are usually extremely dry. Fishing for home consumption and for the market continues to give employment to many during the fishing season.
Agriculture is limited almost entirley to the raising of potatoes and other garden vegetables.
Considerable hay is raised and an occasional Indian raises a few acres of oats. The conditions of climate and the character of the people would seem to indicate that stock raising, and at some future time dairying, will be the branches of agriculture that will be most successful here. Aside from the cutting of lumber for school and agency work little worth mentioning has been done during the past year. Fortunately the Government has succeedid recently in leasing this mill to reliable white men who will improve and operate it in such a way as to make it a source of industry and profit for the Indians and a great benefit to the community, who depend upon the mill for lumber. Indians who are citizens and possessed of physical strength or valuable property ought to be required to pay for the services of the physician who waits upon them, the same as do other citizens.