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Show COMENSSIONER OF INDIAN' AFFAIRS. 53 of the act of ~ u b s 1t,1 914 (38 Stat. L., 582,606), was offered, and on January 14,1916, the bid of the J. S. Stearns Lumber Co.' on the saw timber,, and that of the ?vJ. J. Bell-Lumber Pi on the cedar, ' . were accepted. . The remaining timber on allotments of the Lac Courts Oreille Indian Reservation was sold to the Fountain-Campbell Lumber Co. in February, 1916. Timber operations were begun on the ~icarifia Indian Fkserva-tion, under the contract with the Pagosa Lumber Co., rind on the. Tulalip Reservation, under the contract with the Everett Logging - ' Co. On the Jicarilla about 13,000,000 feet, and on the Tulalip about 60,000,000 feet b. m. were cut. From thc Bad =ver Reservation about 40,000,000 feet were removed, and the cut at Neopit on the' Menominee Reservation was ap~roximately 20,000,000 feet. Rather exten&e operations were also conducted on the Leech Lake and Lac Courte Oreille Reservations. Four important items of legislation. recommended by this o6ce were included in the Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year 1917, approved May 18, 1916. These were an item authorizing- the homesteading of timber lands of the Flathead Reservation, which shoul'd be found valuable for agricultural or horticulturalpurposes, one authorizing the sale of the timber from so-called school and swamp lands claimed by the State o f Wisconsin within the Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservations, one authorizing improved methods for the sale of products of the Menoniinee Indian Mills, and one creating an Indian forest reserve on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. ROCKY BOY'S BAND. Over 60 years ago a band of Chippewa left Wisconsin. to hunt buffalo and finally reached Montana, then a wild and unsettled. country. Years passed and the Chippewa who remained in Min-nesota and Wissonsin w.ere given land, but this offshoot of a once. powerful tribe was apparently overlooked. They remainect in Mon-. tan& hunting buffalo and other wild game, then plentiful there, but . with the advent of the white man their natural means of subsistence was dissipated and soon these people became a wandering band of tramps, seeking odd jobs but depending largely upon the charities of. the public. To the credit of Rocky Boy's Band it should be said that even in need they were honest, no complaint ever having been made agahst. them for the infraction of any law. Altogether, their condition appealed strongly to many of the best citizens of Montana, some of-whom, notably at Great Falls and Helena, took an active interest in their welfare, contributing money, time, and practical help. |