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Show REPORT OB TBG COMhlfSSlONER OP INDlAN APFAIRS. 53 artment detailed Inspector Charles F. Nesler and Special Agent h 27, 1899, this office submittedfordepart-n accordance with Department directions of March , adraft of instructions for the guidance of these officers in thework ssigued them. They have been engaged ill making the investigation, ut their report has not yet been received in this office. Wig.-Under authority granted J. H. Cusheway & ted Justus S. Stearns in 1893 to on logging operations on these reservations have continued and have een satisfactorily conducted. In the last annual report a statement was given of the granting of ority to Mr. Frederick L. Gilbert to purchase timber ji-om the allot-on the Red Oliff Reservation. The logging on this reservation has torily. The mill of Mr. Gilbert has been erected, nderstood to have entered upon the manufacture No other logging has been done under the La Pointe Agency. Xenominee Reservation, Wis.-Angust 9, 1898, the Department, ou for the agent of the of the act of June 12,1890 (26 Stat. L., 146). They were k on the rivers and tributaries of the reservation 16,000,000 mber, or so much thereof as might be practicable, under Acting under this authority, the Menominee Indians, under the direc-nt, cut and banked 11,194,000 feet of logs on the Wolf taries and 4,206,000 feet of logs on the Oconto River, on February 6,1899, the agent was authorized to advertise the logs sale. March 14 he submitted an abstract of bids received, and r a11 the logs offered-16,000,000 feet--at $15.08 per thousand, be ver the average price for the season of 1897-98. September 26,1898, the agent transmitted authority of the chiefs d headmen of the Menominee tribe of Iudians for entering into an reement with the owner of the fee of E. 2 of the NE. and the SW. the NE. and the N. 2 of SE. and the SW. NW. of section 16, T. 30 the removal of a quantity of valuable pine timber, timated at 5,000,000 feet, provided that the prlce to be paid for the utting, hauling, and haoking of the timber should not be leas than |