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Show . . 50 COMMISSIONER OP INDIAN AFPAIRS. The act last mentioned extended the provisions of the act of June 25, 1910, to Oklahoma, with the exception of lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Osages, so that since the passage of this act patents in fee simple can be issned to purchasers of Indian lands in Oklahoma, with the exceptions noted. During the year 1916 there have been made sales covering an area of 90,819.03 acres, involving a consideration of $1,661,851.92. The average price for which the land sold was $18.60 per acre. The pear previous the office sold 761 tracts, involving 102,674.53 acres, for $1,300,303.08, or $12.66 per acre. HOhlELESS INDIANS. In continuation of the work of providing lands for homeless Cali-fornia Indians, small tracts aggregating 1,860.04 acres, at a total price of $19,367.29, are now being purchased for the benefit of ap-proximately 1,302 Indians of various bands. Four purchases hnve been consummated and 16 more are practically completed. With the balance of funds provided by the act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 582), an additional tract of about 50 acres of agricul-tural land was bought for $6,000 for the benefit of the Camp Verde Indians, located in Yavapai County, Ariz. This tract is contiguous to a 240-acre tract which was purchased at $13,000 for these Indians last year. The Indians are settling on these lands and Supt. Taylor reports that 110 acres have been placed under cultivation. Negotiations have been entered into for the purchase of lands and , water rights in the total amount of $32,233.33 for the Navajo of the public domain in Arizona and New Mexico. MISSION LANDS. - The total area of mission lands on Indian reservations and the issuance of patents in fee to mission organizations under the general act of March 3, 1909, and other special acts has been less than in , , former years.' - There are pending for surveys orders far patents on the following reservations: ' Menominee, nnder Keshena: Catholic, for patent, about 26 acres; indefinite number of acres to be set apart. Yankton: To the Church of the Holy Fellowship, 52 acres. Cheyenne River: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 5. to 15 acres. Takima: Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 12 acres. Warm Springs: Woman's General Missionary Society of the United Presby-terian Church, about 16 acres. A patent for 40 acres on the ATett Lake Reservation, Minn., hes been issued to the Northern Minnesota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church since the beginning of the new 5cal gear, 1917. |