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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. L49 The Depahment, nnder date of March 22,1897, accepted the said bids, and the sale of the logs to them was confirmed, as follows: Joaeph Black, of Sheweno, Wis., 4,499,109 feet of logs, st $7.75 per M feet ........................................... $34,868.09 8. W.HoUiater, of Oshkoah, Wib., 949,000 feetof logs, st $7.50 per M feet.. ............................................. 7,117.50 8. W. Holliater, of Oshkoeh, Wid., 3,748,000 feet of logs, at $9.75 per M feet .......................................... 36,543.00 8. W. Hollister, of Oahkosh, Wis., 1,416,391 feet of loge, at $11.35 per M feet ......................................... 18,076. 03 8. W. Hollister, of Oehkoeh, Wis., 3,159,500 feet of logs, st $13.12 per M feet ......................................... 49,324.64 Oconto Company, by 0. A. Ellis, Oconto, Wis., 2,628,000 feet of logs, at $11.75 per M feet .............................. 30,879.00 A total of 17,CW,OIM feat, at .......................... 114,808.26 This average of $10.20& per 1,000 feet is au increase of 459 cents per 1,000 feet over that for the seasol1 of 1895-96. White Earth Agency, Minn-Logging of dead timber was ?nthorized only on the White Earth Reservation during the last season, since the agent reported that there was not enough dead timber on the Red Lake (diminished) Reservation to warrant the Indians in undertaking log-ging there. September 24,1896, the President granted authority for the Indians of the White Earth Reservation to cot and sell dead timber standing or fallen on that reservation, and prescribed regulations to govern their operations, nnder the act of February 16,1889 (25 Stats., 673). Under this anthoiity a number of the lndians made contracts with lumber-men by which they sold timber of the gross value of $41,223.93, of which 10 per cent, or $4,122.39, is to be expended under the direction of the Department for the relief of the old, sick, and indigent mem-bers of the hands under the Wbite Earth Agency. RALLROADS ACROSS RESERVATIONS. GRANTS SINCE LAST ANNUAL REPORT. Since the data of the last annual report Congress has granted rail-road companies right of way across Indian reservations as follows: Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Mwkogee, Oklahoma and Westsm Railroad Company.-By act of Corlgress of January 29,1897 (29 Stat., 502, and p. 389 of this report) the above-named company was granted right of way through the Indian allotments in severalty in the Terri-tory of Oklahoma along such line or route as may be granted it by the laws of said Territory, and through the Indian Territory, begin-ning at a point on the northern line of the Creek Nation, Indian Ter- . ritory, at or near the mouth of the Cimarron River, running thence by the most feasible and practicable route to the town of Muscogee, Creek Nation j thence in a northeasterly direction by the way of Port Cfibvoli 678- |