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Show LOGGING BY INDIANS, AND TIMBER DEPREDATIONS ON , INDIAN RESERVATIONS. Nmomowe Reseruation, Fib.-The act of June 12,1890, allows the Me~iomoneeI ndians to cut and market not exceeding 20,000,000 feet of their timber annually. During the winter aud spring of 1891-'92,83 of the leading Meuomonee Indians entered into contracts with their agent, Charles 8. Kelsey, of Green Bay Agency, Wis., to bank 20,000,000 feet at an average price for their labor of about $3.41 per thousand feet. The contrack were approved by this office, and appear to have been faithfully and promptly filled by the Indiaus. Some of the contractors received ss high as $3,580.50 for the season's work, and some as low as $204.60, averaging about $822.61. In January Itwt, the agent reported that the logs would be ready for sale in a short time, and on January 26 he was authorized to insert the following advertisement for three weeks in the daily edition of the - Oshkosh Northwestern, the Milwaukee Sentinel, and the Green Bay- Gazette: . . MENOMONEE INDIAN LOGS FOR SALE. - Sealed o.r oo.o sals marked "Bids for Menomonee log.-s .". addressed t o the under-signed, will be ruerived unlil 2 u'rlurk p. m. uiTt~rada\-M arch 1, 1892. 'rltera are to Lu sold #rut I* exceed 20,MHl,tM feu1 of pine locr, #.ow hankrd or to bo I bankedpartly on the South Branch of the Ooonto kiver aid partly on the Wolf River and tributaries, on the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin, in five lots, and in quantities nearly as follows: Not exceeding 4,586,800 feet on Wolf River, marked "U. 8; 1." Not exoeeding 4,433,000 feet below dam on South Branch, marked "U. 8. 2." Not exceeding 4,433,000 feet abobove dsm on Sonth Branch, marked "U. S. 3." Not exceeding 2,591,600 feet on West Branch of Wolf River, marked "U. S. 6." Not exceeding 3,9?,600 feet on Little West Branch, marked "U. S. 6." Separate bida vill be considered for each lot. The logs t o be scaled by oompetent sworn ~oalelers,w hose work can be readily tested. Payment for the lags must be made within ten days after notification of a con-firmation of sale. No logs to be removed from the reservation until paid for. Each bid, to be conaidered, must be accompanied by awrtified check for five per cent of 'the amount of the bid(or as near that per cent as practicable to ascertain) on some United State8 depository or solrent national bank, d r a m to the order of - the undersigned sa United StatesIndian Agent. The bida will be opened in the presence of the bidders, in the office of the Green Bay Agenoy, at Keahem, Wia., at 2 o'clock p, m. of &larch 1, 1892. Awards will be made to the highest bidder or bidders, but no sale to be valid un-ti1 confirmed by the honornhle Co?mnissioner of Indian affairs and the honorable Secretary of the Interior, who reserve the right to rejeot any pr a11 bide, if to do so is believed to be for the bestinterests of the Indians. Cb.ecka of pnrties whose bids are not accepted will be returned to them after sale baa been consummated. If parties whose bid8 &re ao&pted fail to oomply with the requirements of the Indian Department in the purahass or payment for eaid logs as |