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Show .72 REPORT OF TEE OOMMISSIONEI~ OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. timber from allotments on the Red Cliff Reservation, and two contracts for the sale of timber to Frederick L. Gilbert, the authorized con-tractor for the Red Cliff Reservation, were approved January 12,1900. The logging on this reservation has also been satiifactorily carried on. Menominee Reservation, Wis.-August 12, 1899, the Department, on recommendation of this office, granted authority for the agent of the Green Bay Agency, Wis., to employ Menominee Indians to carry on logging operations on their reservation for the season of 1899-1900, under the provisions of the act of June 12, 1890 (26 Stats., 146). They were to cut and bank on the rivers and tributaries of the reser-vation 15,000,000 feet of pine timber, or so much thereof as might be practicable, under the rules and regulations that governed similar operations the previous year. Under thi authority and under the direction of the agent they cut and banked 13,239,400 feet of logs on the Wolf River and tributaries and 1,760,600 feet of logs on the Oconto River, and on February 8, 1900, the agent was authorized to advertise the logs for sale. March 15 he submitted an abstract of bids received, and March 21 they were submitted to the Department with the recommendation that the of S. W. Hollister, of Oshkosh, Wis., for all the logs offered, 15,000,000 feet, at $16.25 per thonsand, be accepted. The Department March 23 accepted that bid. This price, $16.25 per thousand feet, is an increase of $1.17 per thousand feet over the aver-age price for the season of 1898-99. November 20,1899, the agent transmitted an authority of the chiefs and headmen of the Menominee tribe for entering into an agreement with the owner of the fee of NW. t of NE. a, NE. of NW. f, SE. t of NW. ~ ,N E . ~of SW. ~N, W. t of SW. a, sw.a of SW. t,S E. a of SW. f, SW. a of SE. f, SE. f of SE. &, to remove therefrom a qnan-tity of valuable pine timber, estimated at 1,200,000 feet, provided that the price to be paid for the cutting, hauling, and banking of the timber should not be less than $5.50 per thousand feet. He recom-mended the approval of such an agreement, as it would unqnestiou-ably be profitable to the Indians, and for the further reason that all of the pine timber on adjoining lands had beeu cut, and the timber on this section was badly exposed to fire. The fee to the above-described lands was claimed by Hollister, Amos & Co., of Oshkosh, Wis., having beeu purchased by that company from the State of Wisconsin. December 9, 1899, Mr. E. G. Mnllen, the agent of Hollister, Amos & Co., submitted a proposition for the cutting, hauling, and banking of the timber. F e b ~ a r y1 4, 1900, the Department accepted that proposition and authorized this office to enter into an agreement with the owner of the lands for the removal of the estimated 1,200,000 feet of pine timber, provided as follows: That the price to be paid for the |