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Show BBPOBT OF THE O O ~ E i ~ f O N EORF 1NDfAN AFFAIRS. 71 eration timber contlltots entered into by Mr. Stearns with 300 of the, allottees whose allotments had been approved October 7,1901, and with five allottees whose allotments had been approved January 18,1901. In these wntracts Mr. Stearns agreed to pay the allottees $5 per 1,000 feet for the green white piue and $3.50 per 1,000 feet for the green Norway pine on their respective allotments, which is an advance of $1 on white pine and $1.50 on Norway pine above the price ,which he had paid under previous contracts. No authority for the sale of the timber on the allotments approved Jannary 18 and Oictober 7,1901, had been granted by the President, and the O5ce on February 3, 190a, recommended that the President be requested to authorize such of the allottees as might desire to do so to enter into contracts with Mr. Stearns for. the sale of thetimber on their allot,ments in accord-ance with the rules approved December a, 1893. So far as this O5ce is advised no action was taken by the Department. Timber operations have been satisfactorily conducted on both these reservations during the past year under contracts previously made. September 11, 1901, the O5ce submitted to Agent CampbelI for consideration and suggestion a draft of rules and regulations to gov-ern the sale and cutting of timber on the Grand Portage Reservation in accordance with the proviaions of the act of February 12,1901 (31 Stats., 785). October 1,1901, the rules were submitted to the Depart-ment. They were approved the next day, and a copy was furnished Agent Campbell October 8. They are published in full on page 5!54 of 'this report. So far as the O5ce is advised the timber operations on this reservation have been satisfactorily. conducted. Xenorninee Reservation, Win.-The aot of June 12, 1890, authorized the Menominee Indians to enter into contract with the Government to bank piue timber on their'reservation, and 189,099,560 feet have been banked and marketed since that date. Of this amount 15,000,000 feet was banked during the past winter. The logs were dnlyadvertised and sold to the highest bidder on sealed bids. The highest bid was received from Mr. T. R. Morgan, of Osh-. kosh, Wis., for the purchase of 15,000,000 feet of logs on the Wolf River and its tributaries, and the south branch of the Oconto River, at $17.27 per 1,000 feet-the highest priceever received for logs cut on an Indian reservation. Valuable timber, wnsisting of hemlock, oak, elm, bass wood, birch, maple, and tamarack, as well as pine, still remains standing on the Menominee Reservation, and a similar quantity of logs will be cut during the ensuing season and sold, as has been the custom for eleven years. Leech Lake Agency, Minu.-No timber operations have been car: ried on on the reservations or ceded lands under the jurisdiction of |
