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Show 76 BEPORTS OH' THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. along the San Juan River, to survey and plat other ditches con-structed long ago and used by the Indians, and to file the necessary papers to secure water rights for them. BLACKPEEP REBEEVATION, MOAT. Authority has been given by the Department to continue the con-struction of what is known as the Cut Bank ditch, on the Blackfeet Reservation. The present plan is to push this work so as to carry water onto about 2,500 acres of land. Although the altitude is such that climatic conditions are rather unfavorable, yet it is believed that this ditch will prove a great benefit to the Indians. It is hoped that very much more land can be brought under the system by simply extending the ditch so that perhaps 13,000 acres in all can be covered by this system. About $15,000 will be required to do the work now in mind. It will be paid from money belonging to the tribe. MQQINQ ON INDIAN RBSERYATIONS. L& POINTE AGENCY, WIS. Rules to govern the sale of timber on the allotted lands of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of September 30,1854 (10 Stat. L., 1109), were approved by the President on September 28, 1892. J. H. Cushway & Co. were the highest bidders for the timber to be sold. The timber contracts, as a rule, expire ten years from the date of approval, and many of them expired during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904. The contractor was &ally allowed to renew the contracts at an increased stumpage price, and during the last year sixteen extension agreements were approved. Under the same treaty the President, on December 6,1893, approved similar rules for the sale of the timber on the allotted lands of the Bad River Reservation, and Justus S. Stearns, of Lndington, Mich., became the authorized contractor. These contracts also were, as a rule, for ten years. Many of them have expired, and authority has been granted by the President for their renewal. Fifty-four exten-sion agreements have been approved since July 1, 1904. Under the same treaty and under joint resolution of February 20, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 970), the Secretary of the Interior, on July 29, 1897, approved rules to govern the sale of timber on the allotted lands of the Red Cliff Reservation. Frederick L. Gilbert, of Duluth, Minn., is the authorized contractor. No timber contracts covering these allotted lands have been approved since the last annual report of this Office. Under the same treaty and under regulations approved by the |