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Show REPORT OF COMNIISSIONEB OF INDIAN ~BAIBS. 67 be imposed by the department. An early opportunity was embraced to bring the subject to the attention of the Congress Senate bill 4548, providing for the sale under department direc-tions, of timber on allotted lands only, passed the Senate on February 11, 1908, and at the close of the session was in the House Committee on Indian Affairs. A similar provision was included also in Senate bill 5901, which was not reported. The cooperative agreement wit& the Secretary of Agriculture by whose terms timber operations on Indian lands will hereafter, when-ever possible, be under the direction and supervision of the Forest Service has been referred to already. LOGGING ON RESERVATIONS. During the year logging operations have been conducted on Indian reservations as follows: FLATHEAD BESERVATION. On the Flathead Reservation in Montana 19,066,760 feet of dead-and- down pine timber was logged by the John O'Brien Lumber Company of Somers, Mont., and by Ed. Donlan and W. B. Russell of Missoula, Mont., under tbeir contracts, the net proceeds amounting to $20,762.65. The John O'Brien Lumber Company has completed its contract. The contract of Donlan & Russell has been extended to May 15, 1909, hecause there proved to be about three times as much dead-and-down timber in the area under contract as was originally estimated. Efforts to obtain bids for the blown-down timber on the sections not included in these two contracts have thus far been unsuccessful. LA POINTE AGENCY. Allottees on Indian reservations in Wisconsin under the jurisdic-tion of the La Pointa Agency are perrpitted to dispose of the timber on their allotments under the treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Sht. L., 1109). During the fiscal year timber contracts between allot-tees and the authorized contractors have been approved as follows: Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Signor, Crisler & Go., Rice Lake, Minu_-_ 5 Red CUE Reservation, Frederick L. Gilbert, Duluth, Mhn- .------2- ------- Bad River Reservation, Stearns Lumber Company, Lndington, Mich______-- 36 48 There have also been approved nine renewal contracts with J. H. Cushway & Co., authorized contractors on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, and one renewal contract with the Stearns Lumber Company on the Bad River Reservation. |