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Show 72 . REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The logging operations on these two reservations have been satis-factorily conducted. The act of Februaw 12, 1901 (31 Stats., 785), authorizes the Indians of the Grand Portage Reservation to sell the timber on their allotments under such rules and r e ~ l a t i o n sas may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. No such rules and regulations have yet been promulgated, but the matter is now under consideration by this office. Xenominee Reservation, Wi8.-August 22, 1900, the Department, on recommendation of this office, granted authority for the agent of the Green Bay Agency, Wk., to employ Menominee Indians to carry on logging operations on their reservation for the season of 1900-1901, under the act of June 12, 1890 (86 Stats., 146). They were to cut and . bank on the rivers and tributaries of the reservation 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 this authority and under the direction of the agent they cut and banked 13,385,600 feet of logs on the Wolf River and tributaries and 1,674,400 feet of logs on the Oconto River, and on February 21, 1901, the agent was authorized to advertise the logs for sale, the bids to be opened in this office at 8 o'clock March 26. On that day the bids were submitted to the Department with the recommendation that the bid of S. W. Hollister & Co., of Oshkosh, Wis., for all the logs offered, 15,000,000 feet at813.25 per 1,000, be accepted. The Depart-ment, March 28, accepted that bid. This price, $13.25 per 1,000 feet, is a decrease of $3 per 1,000 feet from the average price for the sea-son of 1899-1900. LEASWG OF INDIAN LANDS. Under the law Indian allotments may be leased for not exceeding three years for grazing and farming, five years for farming only, and five years for farming and mining, except that unimproved allotted lands on the Yakima Reservation may be leased for not exceeding ten years for agricultural purposes. Leases made for a money consider-ation alone, however, in order to secure favorable consideration by this office, should not exceed the period of one year for grazing pur-poses and two years for grazing and farming or f a n n g . Where there is other consideration in addition to money, such as placing substantial improvements on the land, they should not exceed two and three years, respectively; but in cases of an exceptional character, upon a full statement of facts, leases may be made for three years for grazing and five years for farming, and in the case of the Yakima Indians farming leases may, under certain special c>nditions, be extended to ten years. |