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Show might be able to determine the method of sale which will bring the largest return to the Indians. Only a preliminary report has been received from him. Crow.-My last annual report showed that allotments to the Crow Indians in Montana were practically completed. The result of the field work has been submitted to the Depa~tment and approved, with the exception of a few allottees on Schedule A. Their allotments have been held up because of the inability of the Office to secure the sur-vey of the lands in accordance with an adjustment made by a special agent of this Office and one from the General Land Office. Moreover, further action has been suspended to allow settlers who, by error, were permitted to enter lands belonging to Indians, an opportunity to appeal from the ordey of cancellation issued by the General Land Office. It is believed that the cases can be closed within the next two months. Flathead.-The field work on the Flathead Reservation in Montana has progressed very rapidly. Of the 2,170 persons known to be en-titled to allotment 1,573 had their selections scheduled on July 27, 1907, and the work was proceeding at the rate of about 75 selections a week, which indicates that the field work will be completed by the middle of October. The surveys of the reservation have not been finished, but a special examiner from the General Land Office has been on the ground for some time with instructions to extend the surveys over such unsur-veyed parts of the reservation as contain lands valuable for timber or other purposes. This work will doubtless be finished soon after the completion of the field work of making the allotments. It is hoped that the commission to appraise the lands can begin work before the end of October. Fort Berthold.-Allotments were made in 1895 to the Indians of the Fort Rerthold Reservation in North Dakota under the'act of March 3,1891 (26 Stat. L., 989-1032), for which patents were issued and delivered to the parties entitled. The act of March 1,1907 (34 Stat. L., 1042), authorizes the Secre-tary of the Interior to-cause an allotment of 80 acres to be made from the lands of the Fort Berthold Reservation, including lands to be restored, to each member of the several tribes belonging on and ocbpying it now living and to whom no allotment has hereto-fore been made, and where any allotment of less than 80 acres has heretofore been made, the allottee, if now living, shall be allowed to take .an additional allotment which, with the land already allotted, shall not exceed 80 acres. To make these additional allotments a special agent was appointed on April 30,1907, and he is now at work in the field. Jicuri1Za.-The act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1413), author-ized the cancellation of allotments heretofore made on the Jicarilla |