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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 9 ties, Minn., which will probably be completed during the current calendar year. The allotment work among the Indians of the Mis-sion Reservations in southern California is alsq in progresb. On the publicdomain, 103 allotments were made in various States, embracing 14,449.88 acres. EXTENSOONF TRUST PERIOD.-T~pe~r iod of trust was extended by order of the President on allotments made to Indians on the reservations at Hoopa Valley, and Round Valle Calif.; Umatilla, Oreg.; Lake Traverse, S. Dak.; and Kickapoo, 8 kla. These exten-sions cover more than 3,000 allotments, 3 of them for 10-year periods and the others 15 years. CALIFORNIINAD IANS.-Three tracts of land containing 190 acres were purchased for homeless Indians in California, at a total cost of $7,650, from funds appropriated by Congress for this purpose. I t is estimated that about 250 Indians may obtain home sites on these tracts. FORSTI LCil P~c~~8.-Pursuantot the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. L. 534), and acts supplemental thereto, 800 acres of inherited Indian lands were purchased for 11 Indians for the sum of $25,450. These lands are located on the Kiowa,, Comanche, and Apache Reser-vation in Oklahoma, and will provide home sites for the Indian beneficiaries and their families. PAPAGINOD IANS.-A~ important decision was handed down by the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia in favor of the Government in the case of the Pueblo of Santa Rosa a. The Secre-tary of t.h e Interior et al., involving a total of about 2,000,000 acres of and in southern Arizona occupied by the Papago Indians. This case has been pending in the courts since 1915, and although brought nominally in the name of the Indians, the suit was actually filed and sponsored by certain white men who claimed an interest in the land through an alleged purchase from the Indians more than thirty - - years ago.. , INDIAINN SSA N'J UM COUNTY, U!c~~.-J?ield work in coiiection with individual allotments for two small bands of Utes and Paiutes in southeastern Utah has been completed. These Indians were under the leadership of Old Pose and Polk, and had no fixed. habitation. Old..Posey is now decease2 Applications have been filed bhrough the usual channels and a 25-year trust atent will be issued to each applicant in the. absence of any vali%objection under applicable laws and regulations. About 180 Indians will be benefited. LANDS ALES AND ~~~sw. -Sa l ewse re made of 1,286 tracts of allotted land, aggregating about 125,099 acres. Many of the sales were for cash, but the majority were on time payments of 25 per cent down the remainder being payable in installments of 1, 2, and 3 years. .Many of the allotments were inherited land, as every pos-sible encouragement ,is. given the Indians to cultivate and. otherwise improve4heir individual holdings for homemakin purposes. In many cases where allottees could not use their lan f s to advanta e, either for agricultural ,or grazing purposes, leases were made !or cash, or both. cash and. iqprovements, and some on share of crop. FEE PATENT8 ANLl CrMPETENCY CERTIFICATES.-E~aCp~p lic?tion for .a fee patent or coqlpetency certificate was carefully scrutmzed. Many applications were denied and approvals given only where it |