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Show L-7111 ten to thirty-five cents each; and that if tho settlors were permitted to cut timbor on Indian land free, tho supply would soon become so exhausted that the Indians would ba placed in the position of having to buy this material at considerable . . . ,. • • -.-.. expense. '* ,v A '' " :y. '.. . He invites attention to tho fact that settlers may obtain suffioient cedar po3t3 under a froo use permit-from. - ; - . ' the Forest Reserve for tho needs of their homesteads, sr.d, if: they have no money to buy tho timber from the Indian lands, ' 7 Y , they have the opportunity to obtain sufficient supplies with- ..' out cost to themselves; that it ia true that the supply of timber within the Forest Reserve ia a few miles further fiia the settlers than the supply of timber•on the Indian grazing lands, and, in seme instances, a settler might have a considerable distance to travel to obtain the material, but, at the 3sme time, it is within his JcnoTvledge that the majority of the settlers can obtain under thoir free uso permit all ...y . '' :- : A '- Y necessary timber with practically no appreciable increase ' : •-y > 7 7.A -. •'• -7 i: A A • A .-. of effort on thoir part. •r •- •! .-*!•.; ' •• . ,'•> . --"•'",..'- -''V yy -.; - 7' , "• <i - .. - _ Vary respectfully, - ' .y v [Signed) R. C Vakntine, w 7. -s. "<assris$i.&£A -r. 7497 |
