The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-30

Greek FreedHen n........... 5000 /
semiuoles E................ 32e I
Cherokees ESTIMATED ....... -, 900 |
Delaware9 Observation-Disclosures. 600 /
Among these citizens the land will |
be DIVIDED as follows:
In tine Seminole nation the total /
acreage, 365, sol.
In the Greek nation the total acre /
age lie 3,O72,s1s
ia the Cherokee nation the total /
acreage is 95s, ,2s3.
In the Chickasaw nation the total /
acreage is 4,703, Jos.
In the Cboctaw nation the total /
acreage is e,974, ,jjl.
The status Of the work at pres
ent is:
Lands appraised in the Chickasaw /
nation. completed Jan. %, 1901, /
4, ,7o3, los.
Lands appraised in the Choctaw (
nation, G.389, ,35l; 10 be appraised /
572 600.
Lands appraised in the Greek ma.
tion, completed April II, 1901, 9 ,O72,
sl3.
Lands appraised in the Seminole
nation, complete, 365, s5l
Lands appraised in the Cherokee
nation TO date, 3 609, ,293.
To be appraised, 74g 600.
Timber estimators and appraisers
in the field, Choctaw nation, co.
Land appraisers in the field, Cher
okee nation. ITO.
Survey camps in the deld, Chicka-
saw nation, 5 CAM pc, 20 men.
Survey camps in the field, Chero
kee nation, camps, IS men.
Cherokee enrolling party in the
field, Nowata, Cherokee nation.
Mississippi Choc,aw enrolling party
at Meridian, Miss.
Cboctaw enrolling party al Atoka.
1T.
Seminole land ofice, Wewoka.
Creek land cfice, Muskogee.
Department Of surveys and ap
praisement, Chickasaw-Choctaw en-
rolling Office, and the general Offices
OF the commission, Muskcgee.
The date for completing appraise-
ment in the Cherokee nation is July
lI5. The date for completing ap.
praisement Of lands and estimate Of
tint er in the Choctaw nation Sept. J.
The citizenship rolls have been
comp'eted in the Seminole nation,
classic C alton has been finished, and
q record made OF same, and from the
land Office established at Wewoka,
June l final allotments are now be-
| ing made. A land Office for the
Creek nation has been opened at
Muskogee, and at TINS time perhaps
70 per cent of the land in the Creek
nation has been allotted. With the
completion Of the rolls in the Choc.
| taw and ChicKasaw nations, a land
Office will be opened a. Atoka for al.
/ lotment Of these lands. Just what
| will be done in the Cherokee nation
ls as yet, a matter Of some doubt,
owing 10 the rejection by that nation
of the treaty and the refusal OF the
president 10 sanction the APPOINT
ment by the Cherokee council OF an
other treaty commission. All Of the
work done TO date has been expedi-
tiously carried on and the largest
estate perhaps in the history OF the
world is being administered on IN
such a manner that the thousands
Of benefciaries, whether intermar-
ried, shrewd business men, or igno'
rant fullblood Indians, will each get
an equal share. For the work here
there has been no precedent, after
It, there will be no duplicate. Some
criticism has been INDUCED in by the
white element in the Territory, the
most adverse coming from those
least informed.
To determine the value of 10 57i,-
il6 acres of land of all the grades
known TO the American people, TO
determine the names of more than
so 600 heirs TO the land, to make a
CONT plete official record on which not
only the abstract Of title for this
vast domain shall start, but also of
The riehtful participants, and in do
ing this 20 put in motion the machin'
cry requiring moro than four hun
dred surveyors, appraisers, expert
timber esiimators, draughtsmen,
stenographers and clerks, 20 estab-
ssh and maintain a legal bureau and
court, all without a precedent TO fol
low, Is a task only realized by those
keeping close in touch with the work
and this is the task imposed upon
the commissioners The commission
as now composed consists Of iiop