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Show 60 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. covering 32,000 acres, and 3,303 allotments of grazing lands, covering 210,400 acres, had been made within the Fort Hall Reservation, leav-ing approximately 231 irrigable allotments and 472 grazing allot-ments yet to be made. On the Colville Reservation, Wash., 1,266 Indians have been allotted 139,771 acres. While the total area within this reservation is large, approximately 1,297,000 acres, yet a large part of the land is rough, mountainous, and unsuitable for allotment purposes. The field men connected with this work have heretofore advised that when all Indians entitled have been allotted there will remain hut little, if any, desirable land for homestead settlement. Of the lands within the Fort Peck Reservation, Mont., at least 1,000,000 acres surplus will be available for disposal under the act of May 30, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 558), and on the Blackfeet Reservation approximately 700,000 acres will be placed on the market in accord-ance with the act of March 1,1907 (34 Stat. L., 1035). That part of the Fort Berthold Reservation lying north and east of the Missouri River in North Dakota has been allotted, 'and the surplus lands, other than those classified as coal, disposed of under the provisions of the act of .June 1, 1910 (36 Stat. L., 455). The Geological Survey has reported 238,082 acres within that part of the reservation lying north and east of the river as valuable for coal, of which 73,000 acres were allotted to Indians under the provisions of the act mentioned and joint resolution No. 23, approved April 3, 1912. Special allotting agents, William Williams and John F. Arm-strong, have been engaged recently in aiding the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico to procure their applications for allotment on the public domain under the provisions of the fourth section of the general allotment act of February 8,1887 (24 Stat. L., 3.88). During the year allotment work has practically been completed within the Yuma Reservation, Cal., and Rosebud and Standing Rock Reservations, S. Dak. and N. Dak. Within the Pine Ridge Reserva-tion, S. Dak., allotments have heretofore been made to 5.444 Indians, covering 1,778,085 acres. Approximately 2:000 Indians within this reservation remain yet to be allotted, and two years longer, at least: will be required to complete the work. LEASES OF ALLOTTED LANDS. (Outside Five Civilized Tribes.) Leases of allotted lands are authorized by the act of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat. L.. 794), and acts amendatory thereof. Under these acts and departmental regulations leases may be made for not ex-ceeding three years for grazing or five years for farming purposes, when improvements are provided for as part of the rental. When the consideration is limited to money alone, the term does not exceed |
