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Show timber in the Post Creek district has not been sold, and no bids were received for the timber on the Camas Prairie-Dayton Creek district.^ The agent has been asked for a recommendation as to the disposition to be made of this unsold timber. LA POINTE AGENCY. , , Allottees on Indian reservations in Wisconsin under the jurisdic-tion of the La Pointe Agency are permitted to dispose of the timber on their allotments under the treaty of S+tember 30, 1854 (10 Stat. L., 1109). J. H. Cushway & Co., of Ludington, Mich., are the author-bed timber contractors on the Lac dn Flambeau Reservation; Justus S. Stearns, of Ludington, Mich., on the Bad =ver Reservation, and . Signor, Crisler & Co., of Rice Lake, Wis., and Frederick L. Gilbert, of Duluth, Minn., on the Red Cliff Reservation. During the last fiscal yar.timber contracts with allottees have been approved as follows: Bad River Rnservation ..------.-..-.----.-.----.8- -.-------...---..--- Red Cliff Reservation- ~~..-.-~.-~~-~~1- -~..~~-~~~~~............ Lac Courte Oreille Reservation ------_.-----------.7------.---.-.-.----- 58 Lac du Flambeau Rwrvation- ..--.----....----.-..--1.4- ---.-..--.... Total --------.-----------.--------.-----....-..----.------.L 79 The money accruing from the sale of timber on allotted lands is deposited in certah selected banks, which are required to, give bonds for the faithful accounting for the funds deposited with them and the payment of the agreed rate of interest. The agent has instruc- . tions not to allow deposits to exceed the aggregate amount of bonds furnished by a bank. The deposits with each bank and the aggregate . amount of bonds furnished by each at the close of the fiscal year were: DWOS6t8 6n b&8. I . Total ...... .. ... .......... ... .... ........... . .... ...... . ........ 1 855,686.66 1 8W.W In July the agent was directed to reduce the deposits in the Bay-field bank to.$60,000 or call on the bank for'an additional bond. He withdrew the surplus deposits. Red Cliff.-The sale of timber by allotteas on the Red Cliff Reser-vation is made under the joint resolution of Congress of February 20, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 970), as well as by the treaty of 1854. By Department regulations of Jnly 29,1897, Mr. Gilbert, the authorized contractor; was required, among other things, to establish a sawmill on the reservation. On May 17,1905, the mill was burned. |