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Show I 60 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAB AFFAIRS. I irregularities which have been discovered in the administration of the contracts by one of the nuperintendents of logging, who has been suspended. Under the act of J u y 12, 1890 .(26 Stat. L., 146), 7,500,000 feet of green anddead and down pine and hemlock and dead cedar tim-ber was logged. This timber was advertised for sale, but the bids received were unsatisfactory and were accordingly rejected. In ac-cordance with the recommendation of the Forest Service, part of the logs have been driven down to Bay Boom, eighteen miles above Osh-kosb, and the remainder are held on the banks of the streams await-ing a more favorable opportunity for sale. The act of March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 51), provides for 'the cnt-ting of timber, the manufacture and sale.of timber, and the preserva-tion of the forests on the Menominee Reservation under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. As noted on page 7, the operations will be conducted under the direction of the Forest Service. Plans have been made for three sawmills, which are now in process of constn~ction. ALLOTMENTS AND PATENTS. The work of allotting lands in severalty to Indians has advanced satisfactorily during the last year. The number of patents issued and delivered to Indians is shown in this table, classified according to reservations : Crow, Mont ----...-.--1-,9.81. ..Sa-c .a nd Fox, Kans. and Nebr- 37 Crow Creek, S. Dak ---......- 2 Shoshoni, Wyo ---__1-,7-81 .-.----- Kiowa, Okla ..___-_5.13_ Standi-ng- W.o.ck., -S. -Da k -..-.--86 8 Lac du Flambeau, Wis- -..---5 White Earth, Minn .--..--3-,30.0- - La Pointe, Wis- ...-..-..-..1-1 Yakimn, Wash .-...------4. .-- Oto and Missouria. Okla ....-- 121 Yankton, S. Dak .-.--,--.-.2. Pine Ridge, S. Dak --._--1.,4-63- --- -- Quinaielt, Wash Total. -----.--1.0,-46.1 --.--- ._-----1-21 ---.-- Rosebud, 5. Dak .--.----...-.. 252 Besides these, 819 patents have been issued to Indian allo~reeso ut-side of reservations, under section 4 of the act of February 8, 1887. The allotments on reservations which have been approved during the year but for which patents have not yet been issued, number: Flatbead, Mout --...----2,3-78- -Tu-rt.le. M-ou ntain, N. Dak -..---.. 326 Pine Ridge, 5. Dak -..-...--82-8 -K-io wa, Comanche and Apache, ~osebud, 8. Dak. (lieu allot- a . . 1 m e t. . 206 - Standing Rock, N. Dak ~ o t a-l. -..------.5...36-5- ---- ----1-,62-2 -. Yakima, Wash .----.---4- ------ To nonreservation Indians, under section 4 of the act of February 8, 1887, 121 allotments have been made and approved, but not yet ptented. |