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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 39 about 195 Indians on the reservation entitled to allotments, and Special Allotting Agent Levi lv. Green has been subdividing the lands in such manner as to allot them pro rata, which will give about 20 acres to each Indian. R o d Valley, Ca1.-The act of October 1, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 6581, authorizes allotments of agricultural lands to the Indians on this reservation, and conferred on the President authority to reserve lands for grazing purposes for the use of the tribe in common, to be allotted ' to the Indians in severalty at such time and in such quantities as the President might determine. Under this act allotments of 5, 8, and 10 acres each of agricultural land were made to some 619 Indians, and about 37,000 acres of grazing land were reserved for the use of the tribe in common. On April 1, 1909, SpecialAllotting Agent Horace J. Johnson took up the work of allotting pro rata the lands reserved for use of the Indians in common. Each Indian will receive approxi-mately 50 acres. Coeur dlAlene, Idaho.-Allotments of 160 acres each to approxi-mately 647 Indians on this reservation have been completed. On June 24, 1909, a commission, consisting of M. F. Nourse, George 0. Dart, and Willis 0. Wheeler, was appointed to+classify and appraise the surplus lands in accordance with the provisions of the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 335). The President's proclamation of May 22, 1909, opened to entry the surplus lands on this as well as the Spokane and Flathead reservations. White Earth, Binn.-On June 3, 1909, a supplemental schedule of original allotmehts to Indians on this reservation under the pro-visions of the act of January 14, .I889 (25 Stat. L., 642), together with schedules of additional allotments under the provisions of the act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 539), were received. The original allotments made to 215 Indians, comprise 16,921.41 acres, and the additional allotments to 271 Indians, cover 19,629.37 acres. On May 15, 1909, Mr. Darwin S. Hall, one of the members of the former Chippewa commission, was reinstated, for the purpose of completing the removal of the Chippewa Indians to the White Earth Reservation and maymg allotments to them there under the provi-sions of the acts mentioned. Blackfeet, Mont.-Special Allotting Agent Charles E. Roblin has h e n engaged in making allotments to the Indians on this reservation under the provisions of the act of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1035), ' and has completed allotments to soqe 657 Indians. Under the aot and the instructions to the allotting agent the allotments will consist oi 40 acres of irrigable land and 280 acres of grazing land, or in lieu thereof, 320 acres of grazing land, at the option of the allottee. Owing to the latitude of this reservation, it is impossible to do any field work there during the winter season, which lasts approximately |
