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Show On May 17, 1904, Major Scott, acting agent for the Leech Lake Agency, recommended that allottees be authorized to dispose of the timber on their allotments in accordance with the provision of law quoted above. On May 28 of that year a draft of regulations was submitted to the Department, which provide that allottees may sell the timber on their allotments to the person or company who has purchased, or may thereafter purchase, the timber on the ceded lands adjoining such allotments. These regnlations and also a form of contract, to be entered into by the allottees with the purchasers, were approved June 2. During>he last fiscal year 361 contracts between allottees and timber companies have been approved as follows: Northland Pine Company .~.~~~.~.~~.~2-36~ -~--.------........ J. Neil8 Lnmber Compaw--.-------.------.--------.----.--------.----- 57 Burlington Lumber Compa w--_......-_-..-.---.-------------51. -.------- A. Y. M e r r i l l ~ ~ ~ - - . . - . - - . - - - - - - . - - . . - . - . - - - - - . - - - - . . 2 Mnller Lumber Company __..._..____---.----8- ---..-....--.--.------.--- Mississippi River Lumber Company -------.--.--.--.--2. ------------.-..- Henry R. Ki n g . - ~ ~ - - ~ - ~ - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -5 a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 1 The estimated value of the timber on the allotments is about $105,000. The contractors, instead of giving bond for faithful com-pliance with the provisions of the contracts, are allowed to deposit with the agent, as evidence of good faith, a certified check for 20 per cent of the estimated value of the timber on each allotment covered by a timber contract. Such checks will be retained by the agent until the timber on the different tracts is cut, but will be accounted for in the final settlement. On August 4,1904, the Office called upon the agent for the White Earth Agency for information whether, under the act of April 21, 1904, any action should be taken for the disposition of timber on the White Earth Diminished Reservation, on a plan similar to the one in force on the Bad River Reservation-that is, by the erection of a saw-mill on the reservation. On September 23 he answered that the total amount of pine on allotted lands would not exceed 5,000,000 feet; that the allotments containing the pine were widely scattered, and that he did not believe there was su5cient pine on the approved allot-ments to warrant the establishment of a sawmill on the reservation. He asked, however, that authority be granted for the sale, within the " blown-down area," of the dead timber, standing or fallen, including the blown down, and that allottees be permitted to sell the timber on |