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Show 16 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The tie industry on the Jicarilla Reservation has been continued with succebs; but the destruction by fire of .the agency sawmill on. May 30, 1913, interrupted the work, which had just begun to show results. Steps toward the rebuilding of the mill were taken imme-diately. No timber was cut on this reservation during the year under the contract with the Navajo Lumber & Supply Co. for 130,000,000 feet, cou3ummated in 1912. Sales of 1,500,000 feet, at $3.25 per thousand, and 10,000,000 feet, at $3.51 per thousand, were made from tribal lands of the Klamath Indian Reservation. The 16 sectiom of pine lands in the Choctaw Nation segregated :under authority of section 7 of the act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 137), were offered for sale for cash, aa required by the act, at four d i r e n t times, and wide notice'was given in each offering. The only bids received were rejected as not representing the vdue of land and timber. Realizing the imprscticabiity of selling thb land and timber for its market value at a cash sale, upon recommendation of the department, legislation mas enacted as a part of the Indian appro-priation act for 1913, which provided for sale under deferred pay-ments. On August 30, 1912, the timber and land were reoffered on terms of a payment of 25 per cant of the purchase price within 60 days from acceptance of bid, 25 per cent additional within 12 months, . , and the remainder within two years, all deferred payments to draw interest at 6 per cent per annum from the time of the acceptance of - the bid. There was a ready response to the more liberal terms of this advertisement, and after brisk bidding at public auction the land and timber were sold for $287,000.. These timber lands had been appraised by several different parties. .The price received was more than $40,000 above the highest appraisal ever placed upon them and $120,000 above the highest offer received under any one of the earlier offerings. -NOXINEE INDIAN MILLS. The Menominee Indian md, at Neopit, Ti.e,st ablished in the spring of 1908, by the act of March 28,1908 (35 Stat. L., 51), to man-ufacture into lumber the timber on the Menominee Indian Reserva-tion, report3 progress. The town of Neopit numbers over 900 people, composed largely of white and Indian laborers in the lumber indus-try, and contains churches, achools, stores, a music hall, and hotel. The mill has a capacity of 150,000 feet of lumber daily, beside lath, shingled, crating, and other miscellaneous products. The project owns and operates its own logging railway, about 35 miles in total length. The planing mill has recently been enlarged to double its former capacity, a new engine and new machines for finishing lumber having been installed within the last year. The total investment in the plant is over $1,000,000. |