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Show 64 REPORT OB THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN ABBAIRS. 16, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 673); 1,012,220 feet of timber was logged under this contract, valued at $12,955.75. In addition thereto 17,140 feet of timber was Ieft in the wood, for which the contractors have been pked to pay $227.05. Leech Luke Ageny.-Allottees under the supervision of the Leech Lake Agency, Minn., are authorized to dispose of their timber by act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 209). During the yew 20 new contracts were approved and 10 contracts expired; 3,677,640 feet of timber was logged, for which $23,728.86 was received. Red Lake Reservation.-On the Red Lake Reservation, Minn., 2,804,280 feet of fire-killed timber was sold to W. A. Gould under the act of February 16, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 673), for $25,215.64. In addition thereto the Indians cut for agency use 260,000 feet of dead and down timber, valued at $1,572; 250,000 feet for their own use, valued at $1,500; and fence posts, cord wood, etc., from nnmer-chantable dead and down timber, which sold for $5,044.86. Nmominee Reservation.-Operations on the Menominee Reserva-tion in Wisconsin have been conducted during the year under authority of the act of March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 51). The work thus far, however, has been to a great extent preliminary. A very fine modern sawmill has been constructed at Neopit, Wis., together with offices, dwellings for employees, and a boarding house. A large amount of improvement work was done to place the roads and streams on the reservation in condition to move the timber logged. The sawmill was started on January 9, 1909, and during the remainder of the fiscal year 12,913,910 feet of lumber were sawed. Only one sale of manufactured lumber has thus far been advertised, and this sale has not been completed, the lumber being now in course of delivery. At the close of the fiscal year 9,463,900 feet of sawed lumber was on hand at the sawmill yards, the remainder, excluding that which has been delivered on account of the sale referred to, being used for improvements on the reservation in connection with the operations. The total cost of the logging operations conducted by the Forest Service on the Menominee Reservation to June 30, 1909, exclusive of salaries of Forest Service employees, is $471,710.24, of which the sum of $251,877.50 was paid for labor, including deductions for board, medical fees, transportation of laborers, etc.; of this latter amount the sum of $61,800.66 was paid to Indians for labor. Ceded Ghippevja Indian lands.-During the current iiscal year there was cut from the ceded Chippewa lands in Minnesota and Wiscansin 94,028,725 feet of timber and 125 cords of wood, for which the sum of $603,124.48 was received. The total amount of timber cut from these lands to July 1, 1909, was 734,218,733 feet and 125 cords of wood, of the value of $4,779,329.23. |