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Show 52 COMMISIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Amount covered by such new bonds .................................... $3,331,693 Guardians removed or discharged.. .................................... 1,762 Conservation of funda: (a) Bank deposits.. .............................................. $973,123 (b) Investments.. ................................................ $2,451,103 Amounts saved to minor8 and others.. ............................. :. .. $1,514,314 Inherited land sales.. ................................................. 1, W4 Minor allotment sales.. ............................................... 471 Citations hued.. ..................................................... 4,470 Quit-claim deeds obtained .............................................. 79 Official lettars and reports ............................................... 41,818 Conferences with allottees and others (approximate). ................... 41,585 Leas drafted by probate attorneys .................................... 449 Other leases passed upon by probate attorneys ........................... 887 Appraisements secured fmm Government a p p k . . .................. 975 SALE OF REMAINING UNALLOTTED CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW TRIBAL LANDS. Under the regulations governing the next sale'of unnllotted Choc-taw and Ghickasaw tribal lands, including the timber land and the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt land, including townsites established on said sudace, a sale of these lands at public auction to the highest bidder will commence at Hugo, Okla., on October 15, and concluding at Ardmore, Okla., on October 31, 1917. The timber lands and surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands classified as suitable for toansite purposes will be sold on the deferred payment plan as heretofore, but the surface of the segregated coal 1 and asphalt laud area classified aa agricultural and grazing will be sold for cash in accordance with Section 4 of the act of Congress approved February 19, 1912 (authorizing the sale of such surface), without regard to the' appraised value thereof, two years having expired since the lands were first offered for sale from November 16 to December 2, 1914. The most vnluable agricultural lands, consisting of 25,910 acres, to be sold are practically all located in Haskell County, while the timber lands are located in McCurtain, Pushmataha, Le Flore, and Latimer Counties, there being 141,126 acres in McCurtain County, 107,083 acres iu Pushmataha County, 119,450 acres in Le Flore, and 51,500 acres in Latimer County yet to be sold. These timber lands averaged at the last sale held from October 4 to 31, 1916, $3.36 per acre, and the agric~ulturall ands averaged 59.15 per acre. Steps will be taken as soon as practicable to sell the remaining u~isold Creek tribal lands consisting of a little over 2,000 acres, and Creek town lots in Muskogee and Tulsa, recovered as a result of Creek town-lot suits, and the old Creek capitol building site at Okmnlger, Okla., which orcupies a square in the center of that city, for the dis-posal of which sereral propopitions have been advanced, as t.he |
