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Show summer of 1894 had, to a large extent, destroyed the crop of cran-berries, which usually brought the Indians a considerable revenue, and also the mild rice crop, upon which many of them depended almost entirely for subsistence, and the general business depression through-out the country had affected the logging business in Wisconsin to such an extent that it wasimpracticable for Indians who usually got employ-ment outside the reservations in lumbering camps to obtain such work at that time. In view of the situation of the timber and the condition of the 1 Il~diansa, s reported by I~ieutenanMt ercer, Mr. Turrish's bid was sub-mitted to the Department in a report of September 17,1894, with the recommendat.io11 that the Presideut grant authority for its acceptance, notwithstanding the prices offered were much less than those paid on Bad River and Lac du Flambeau reservations for the same classes of timber. The prices on these two reservations are $4 and $2 per 1,000 feet, respectively. The Presideut gave such authority September 20, 1894, and Mr. Turrish having filed bond for $25,000, dated October 2, 1894, the acting agent was notified to permit him to proceed with his logging operations. One hundred and fifty-three cont,racts between Mr. Turrish and Lac Oourt d90reilles allottees for the sale to him of timber on their allotments have been approved, and as far as the reports show the Indians have received much benefit from the logging. I This relief, however, will be but temporary. There .is such a small quantity of timber to be logged, that two or at the most three years will see the close of the logging business on that reservation. Those who have timber on their allotments, under the plan which gives the agent practical coritrol of the money received for it, will be provided against want filr a short time after thelogging is stopped; but themany whose allotments were cut clean in former years and who have squandered the money received for their timber, will, unless they be taught to takecare of what they receive now for their labor as loggers aud to provide for the future, be as destitute as they were before. This reservation was at one time conaidered as embracing one of the most extensively timbered tracts in northern Wisconsin. The timber was not only plentiful but also of the finest quality. Between the years 1882 and 1889, however, the reservation was practically denuded of its timber, and the moncy paid therefor to the Indian allottees was squall-dered in gambling and other extravagances. Over 300,000,000 feet of timber was taken from the reservation during the years named, and, except that four or five of the Indiaus have built nice houses, and arein comparatively comfortable circumstances, the IndiAns have nothing to sl~owfo r their days of prosperity. i This fact is due largely to the system under which the timber on the various reservations of the La Pointe Agency was permitted to be sold the logging operations to be conducted. On each reservation were a number of lumber firms, each firm wanting, of course, to obtain the |