Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-18
BEnEt1rs 1t.iE ! STATE.
New NOrth.l

The State OF Wisconsin, through its
land department., has finally secured the
concession from the United States that
it (the state) is the bonatied owner OF.
the swamp lands and the sixteenth Sec
tons in all Of the. Indiana Resel vations
where the date of the organization Of
the State OF WISCONSIN antedates the
time he treaties We're nrade with the
different Indian tribes; and Wisconsin,
through its land department., has com
menced proceedings against. the govern
ment to collect for all pine and other
valuable timber and property that had
bees been converted to the use OF the
government from such lands. The first
case to come up wasthe seizure OF some
Is million feet OF logs cut by the Menom-
once Indians on the Menomonee rt,serva-
ton at keshella in ShaWanO county,
and banked in the Oconto river which
were sold by the Indian Department to
Perry Low l. Co.; and afterward trails
ferred to Seymour Hollister, OF Oshkosh,
y
the State and bonded qy sHollister in the
sum of$50O, 900. This liecessitated.the
examination OF the lands by experts; and
E. s. Shepard, OF Rhinrlander, was select
ed by the state to look after it's interests.
4 {darty cohsisting of several U. Especial
agents and the Indian department.: have
Just completed the surveys ands,scaling
OF what timber. was cut iii. the season OF
| 1S97-8 which Went into the .4Hollister
logs, and found that 1 ,O44 500 feet had
been cut last winter for which an.agree-
state s.to receive at least $500 per NJ
Tor the timber, which is IL pretty fail
price to establish as precedent and
basis Tor settlement for all trespass Oh
such lands where the quality and size
averages about the same, and which will
amount, in all. probability. TO fifty mil
lion feet on all OF the reservations SO
affected, ami will pet the state u snug.
little sum.
| The state has finally woke up to the
fact that she has been negligent in secul'-
ing thr best results from her public lands
and it rebounds to the credit OF the pres
ent administration of Wisconsin. 4 The
disposlng OF the pine onsthe5 State Park
lands was ii master stroke, as it saved
much money and put it, in to the treas
ury for pine standing rthe State Park
lands that was constantly being destroy
ed by fires and wlndfall also tile flooding
OF such lands at intervals blythe resol-
voir:dams that flow back for miles and
cover the low lands in the Park ,%most OF
which IS the water of State Park lands,
the pine standing ON isl,fnds and margins
OF streams, Trespassilrg has been also
very expem i've to prevent, as every log
driver who needs some boom tiInbel:s to
boom his logs across The many lakes
through winch the STREAMS run, takes
|: the timber from the most convenient
plare-slny where he !. can tind it, and
dom bring it back; and the next drive
that comes along repeats the dose and
as O1lIV IL SIlall amount ~ taken at Il
time and by some many different per-
sons it is next to imposSibetO locate tlle
guilty persons, hence the extra expense.
: The pine. OH the State Park was sold at
public sale at Rhinelander and brought
all it was worth, and the State realized
over 100000 and now the private
owners have the care OF it and stand the
profit and loss, bnt are'in u better posi-
tou tosthem together with their other
holdings than the State. possibly could.
/. These are the few benefits WISCONSIN
enjoys by liavfng,e practieal Inanin the
chief interests OF industry for Governor,
GWho handles hesa. interests lust as eco
InonicaIIy as would aprivate corpora
ton, he beng ii, practical ::.lumberman
himself. ~:
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