Warren sheaf., 1913-06-26
FAC CTS ABOIJT RED i AXE

Red Lake Tribe off Chip pIpewas,
males and 716 females. Increase Id.
the populatio during the last fiscal
year, There are appro ximately
$40 children eligible for school at
tendance. Pupils from the Red
Lake Tribe are attending GoYern-.
ment Non eryation boarding
schools at Carlisle, Penna., Law
renee, Kansas, Flandreau, s. d,
Pipestone, Mimi, and Genoa, Nebr.
There are three boarding schools
for Indian pupils on the reserya-
tion, the Government schools at Po-
nemah or Cross Lake, and Red Lake,
and the Catholic Mission school at.
Red Lake. The average attendance
at the three reservation boarding
schools is, in round numbers, zoo.
There was about 10000 acres Of ag-.
ricultural land on the reservation,
valued at $3.50, 10000; 100000 acres
Of open grazing land, valued at.
$500, 10000; 10000 acres Cf timber
land, valued at S1,l5O, 10000, i total
Of $1,000 acres Of land, valued at S. S.
100000. The value OF property,
exclusive Of lands ana timber, own
cd by the Red Lake Indians is, al,-9
proximately: Buildings, fences, fur
niture, ETC., $lOO,OOO09; Tools and
implements, $i3,OOO.nO; wagons, We
hicles, etc., S2O,O00.UD,, livestock,
S30000.OO; total value Of property,
owned by individual Indians, sl63,-s
100000. Crops raised by Indians Of
the Red Lake reservation annually
are worth approximately Sl5,0Na.ro;
earnings in such Industries as fish.
ing, beadWork, cutting and Selling.
wood and timber, at,;, Sti)O0p0 an
nually. III
The estimated stand Of merchant
| able timber on the rascrvat c:l. Is
|l4O,000,000 board feet and the csti-5
mated percentages Of the predollt-
mating species is: White pine 81 1-2'
percent; Norway pine, 36 percent: ].
jack pine, 1 percent: spruce, 1 ! 9.
percent; cedar and tamarack, 6 per-
cent; and hardWoods Coax, maple,
etc.) ! percent.
The upper and lower Red lakes
combined form what is said to be.
the largest body Of fresh water!
wholly within the borders of the
United States. The shore line Of
the two lakes is between 100 and 1870
miles. The extreme length of the,
lower lake is 26 miles, width ~
miles; upper lake, length, % miles,.
width IL miles. 19 rivers and creeks.
empty into the lakes and there Isl
but one outlet, Red Lake River or
Red River of the North. The mean,
elevation above sea level Of the wa
ter surface of Red Lake is i176
feet while the elevation Of the wa
ter surface Of the river at Thief5
River Falls, about SO miles in an air
line below the lakes, is lii4, a fall
Of only So feet, or a little more than
40 feet per mile. The lakes are com
paratively shallow, the greatest
depth Of which there is any know
ledge being about 35 feet. Teams
crossed on the ice last winter dur
ing a period Of about five months.
Fishing in the large lakes is one of
the principal industries of the In
ldians. The approximate value Of
their annual catch being between
$4,000 and $4,000, but very little is
realized from the sale of fish as the
principal part Of the catch is utiliz-
ed for home consumption. In the
| late fall many families lay in a sup
ply Of white fish sufficient to last
the entire winter. The fish are
caught, cleaned and exposed to.
freezing weather until they become
solid enough to drive a nail with
Whltefish, Walleyed pike and pick
erel abound in the two large akes.
allonge are not SO plentiful
I$noW as formerly, but are frequently
caught near Tamarack River at the.
east end of Upper Red Lake. Bass
fishing is carried on prime cipal II in
the small lakes south Of Lower Red
Lake, such as Shenahg gun Lake,
Shell lake, Sandy lake, etc. Moose
and deer are still plentiful ia the
wild ssWanpy lands north of the
lakes. There Isl a re- ord I5iin the Isag-
ency Of a trip made by a missionary
and government physic clan in a ca
noe from Red Lake agency to- the
Lake OF the Woods many years ago
when the country north of the lakes
was q eovered with water to a uffiei y.
lent depth to permit of canoe snavi-