St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-25
OPENED THEIR EYES.

Fraudulent Red Lake Timber
Estimates.
The Red Lake reservation contains
some of the choicest farming lands to
be found in the state CT Minnesota.
There are beautiful stretches of
prairie and oak openings in the great
forests that fairly make the farmer
envy the Indian the chance the latter
has thrown away.
The opening of this magnificent coun-
try means that four or five new counties
will be organized within two or three
years, and that dozen prosperous
towns and cities will spring up where.
at the present time, there are but few
Indian villages.
Forty or fifty thousand people will
pour in upon these farm lands, for
whom good paying employment will be
furnished by the lumbermen during the
winter season, when they are able to do
nothing in the way of farming.
Under these circumstances it Is not
surprising that the people CT all Nor.
thern Minnesota are growing impatient
at the moves of the pine land ring and
its tools. They want the Red Lake
reservation thrown open. not all at
once, as Gov. Knute Nelson planned or
rather provided in his bill. but III small
er lots.
The Indians are heartily in favor of
the Baldwin bill. which will throw but
100000 acres at time on the market.
They know that a better price can be
obtained in this way, and, as it is all
they have, they naturally want to real
ize as much as possible from this tim
ber. Besides, if tile sale of this timber
is commenced at once, the Indians will
have to borrow no more money from
Uncle Sam. At the present time all the
money appropriated for the Red Lake
bands is ''reimbursable," and will he
taken out of the proceeds of the timber
when sold.
The GLOBES warfare on the pine
land rings two years ago resulted in the
people of the Sixth district taking the
bit in their mouths and sending Maj.
Baldwin to congress. where he has more
than fulfilled his pledge to knock out
the carefully planned schemes of the
rlngsters. But they are still fighting
and planning, and are still confident.
They defeated the majors bill to COM
mence the opening at, once by the aid
of Senator Davis, and over this victory
they have grown so confident that re-
Gently in Washington one of them made
the following boast:
''The Red Lake Indian reservation
will never be opened under Demo-
cratic administration"
The Figures DO The Talking.
The figures comparing the two esti-
mates of the pine on four thousand
acres printed in yesterdays GLOBE are
interesting in view of this statement.
The estimate made by men approved by
Senator Davis, Gov. Nelson and Hon.
S. &. Comstock gave the total amount of
pine standing on these 1900 acres as
| 1,769,00O feet.
The estimate made by the new body
of inspectors appointed by the secretary
of the interior largely on the recon-
mendation of Maj. Baldwin, made the
amount of pine ON the same 1000 acres
| 5.OS9. 600 teet
1t ever figures did their own talking
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occasion.
The people of the Sixth district, the
| common people who make up the great
mass, if not the entire body. the men
who are striving to make homes for
themselves and a living for their families
at the same time, believe that every
man ought to be given the same chance
| at the opening of this great reservation.
They have from the start believed tia
the Nelson bill was drawn and passed
in the interest of the pine land men,
and they have been delighted at the
great fight made in their interests by
Maj. Baldwin, and they are going to
send him back to continue the battle.
Meantime the people are making
their wishes known to the senior Min
nesota senator and when he returns to
Washington next December he will be
satisfied, If he is not already. that the
people of this state. aside from few
pine land men and the man who drew
and passed the Nelson bill, are of one
mind as to Maj. Baldwin's Chippewa
bill. Senator Davis is not candidate
for election this year, but, as the Crooks
ton Times well remarked, 'he may he
four years hence, and the people of
Minnesota have fairly good memories" /"
|, Vanished Is the magic white city of
the Worlds Fair. Enduring are the
hOnOrS gained there by DIR. Prices