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Show October 30,1897, the Deparment grauted authority under the above-quoted provision of law for the sale of dead timber on the diminished White Earth and Red Lake reservations, under regulations previously in force to govern the logging operations of those Indians. Under this authority the oEw approved twelve contraots for the sale of dead tim-ber on the diminished White Earth Reservation aggregating 15,500,000 feet for $77,500, and three contracts for timber on the diminished Red Lake Reservation aggregating 4,500,000 feet for $22,500, aggregating $100,000 for the total amount of timber contracted for. It appears, how-ever, from Agent Sutherland7s accounts for the fourth quarter, 1898, that some of the Indians operating on the diminished reservations cut timber in excess of the amount called for by their contracts, so that the total value of a11 the timber cut on the two reservations mas $110,596.32. Of this amount 10 per cent was deducted for stumpage charges and has been deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, class three, for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. The whole amount thus deposited by the agent on account of timber operations on both ceded lands and diminished reservations was $46,246.38, and the total value of timber sold by the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota was $363,900.31. La Pointe Agency, Wis.-The logging on the Lac du Flambeau Reser-vation by J. E. Cushway & Co., under the various authorities hereto-fore granted, has proceeded without incident of note. Very little logging has beeu done on the Lac Courte dlOreilles Res-ervation, nearly 811 the timber having been cut during the previous season. Such contracts as have been made between Mr. Torrish, the authorized purchaser on that reservation, and some of the allottees mere for the purpose of gathering up the ecattered timber remaining on only a very few allotments. No change has occurred in logging matters on the Bad River Reser-vation, except so far as they have been affected by the relinquishment, by 24 allottees, of old allotments from which the timber had been burned and tho malring of new allotments to them, as authorized by Department letter of September 14, 1897. The list of new allotments mas reported by Captain Scott, the acting agent, on December 31,1897; was forwarded to the Department with the recommendation of this office on Pebrnary 11,1898, and was approved by the President Febru. ary 23,1898. The patents therefor were issued ou June 13,1898, and were transmitted to S. W. Campbell, the new agent at La Pointe Agency, for delivery to the allottees, with letter from this office dated August 5,1898. Contracts were made by the allottees with Mr. Justus 8. Skarus, the authorized purchaser of timber on the Bad River Res-ervation, for the sale of timber on these new allotments, and the Presi-dent having, under date of April 29,1898, authorized it, these contracts were approved by this office. In my last annual report I made a statement of the steps takenlook-ing to the sale by the Indian allottees of the Red 018 Reservation of |