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Show 68 REPORT OF COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN ~FAIRS. IW~J The results on these reservations are shown in tbb following table: Tbntber operations La P&te Aomw, Wis. Reservation. LaoCourte Oreilles ........................................................... Red Cliff ...................................................................... L&c du FIambe&u.. ......................................................... 8,471:~~ 44,085.76 Bad River ..................................................................... 57,4-64,640 -315,6 33.89 Total ................................................................... The money received from the sale of timber is deposited in cer-tain banks which have given bonds for the faithful accounting for the funds deposited and the payment of the agreed rate of interest. % close of the fiml year found this business in the condition stated below : Deposits in bm&s. &land Netional Bank of Ashland, Wis .................................... 5276 492.06 53W.OW Northern National Bank, of Ashland. Wis ................................... 299'1~.69 3m. WO Pimt National Bank of Endson Wis ........................................ 17d W3.62 175, WO City Natlonsl Bank of Duluth kinn ........................................ 149'916.49 160 wo ~ i m~ta t iona~l a n okf ~&yfiefdW, is ........................................ 73:488.56 75: wo Total .................................................................. 972,965.32 I,WO,WO The agent has been instructed not to deposit in any bonded bank a sum in excess of the aggregate amount of bonds furnished. Red Cliff.-A number of contracts with Frederick L. Gilbert, authorized contractor on the Red Cliff Reservation, expired last spring, and although the department has authorized him to obtain renewal contracts from the allottees, none have yet been submitted. The general superintendent of logging reported that in going over the ground it was discovered that Mr. Gilbert's men had left much tim-ber on the tracts on which the contracts had expired. Substantially all this timber has been cut, but it bas not been removed as required by the contracts. An effort will be made to collect its value from the contractor on completion of the estimate now making. Lao Courte Oreah.-A trespass was committed by the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company on two allotments in the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, due to a mistake on the part of the county sur-veyor in locating the section lines. The case was settled amicably, with the approval of the department, by the trespasser's paying to the Indian agent $412.18 for the benefit of the allottees. Bad Riuw.-Four allottees of the Bad River Reservation con-tracted with Anger & Peppard for the sale of their timber, without the authority of the office and not in accordance with the regulations. I I Suit was.bronght to annul the contracts and collect the value of the |