The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-15
THE CHIPPEWALAND
Instructions Given the Examiners
Are Not to Be Made Public j.
at Present.
stumpage Fund May Be Used to Buy
Outfits for Red Lake Reser-
walton Operations.
From The Journal Bureau, Room 10. Poa
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Washington, Sept 15.-Secretary Hitch,
cock has approved the instructions to be
given the examiners of Chippewa land, (
but they are not to be made public The
secretary holds that they are confidential
and intended only for the guidance of en-
ployes of the department In making ex-
aminations and in aiding them to get at
the value of the timber found in va
rious sections Of the ceded reservation
from, which timber is to be cut, and which
are to be classed as agricultural and
opened to settlement and entry under the
homestead law. s--.
Copies of these instructions will be given
to rnenibers=of the estimating corps and to
the Scs.lers AID others employed in get
ting out the timber that is to be sold next
March and thereafter as 1t is to be put.
on the market. William l. O'Neill Of Ash
Ia nd Wis. who has been appointed chief
OF the examining corps, will be. allowed:
to select his own subordinates eAs soon
as his appointment was made the names;
Of dozen men recommended for the posi-
lions under him were forwarded to him at.
Ashland, and he was directed to select
Sich as he thought were qualified fort
the places. In giving O'Neill this wide
lstttuds the secretary has made 1t plain;
that ne will be held responsible for the
success of the timber operations in Min
this the secretary believes that he will
get better service than several years ago
with divided responsibility between de-
partment and land office and the chief OF
estimating crops. Nearly all of the men
who have been recommended for places on
the examining corps are practical lum-
bermcn who are capable of estimating the
amount of timber Of a given tract and Its
probable market value. The information
furnished by them will be used In deter
mining whether the bids offer fair price
for tbs timber, or whether the lumbermen
are trying to get valuable timber below
it's actual value.
To Use Stumpage Fund.
In connection with timber operations on
reservations Major Scott agent at Leecn
Lake, has written the department asking
permission to use the stumpage fund now
in the hands of the department for the
purchase of logging outfits for dead and
down operations on the Red Lake reserra-
tion.,. Only money due members OF THIS
tribe will be used and 1t will be repaid
when operations are concluded and the
timber sold next spring: Major Scott be-
lieyes that he. will be able to sell this
dead and down timber at a considerable
profit. The average expense or getting the
logs out will be 81 a, thousand, and at
present prices. from SO to $13 thousand
will be realized for the logs. He estimates
that there are 100000 feet of merchant
able timber which can be classed as dead
and down.. and at an average profit Of
IS, 900, this will net the Indians 5000.
besides giving: them work this: winter.
Indian Commissioner: Jones. has recon-
mended that authority be given Major
Scott to purchase the outfits and 1t Is
probable the secretary will approve the
recommends ton. Commissioner Jones
says that only Red Lake stumpage money
will be used and that what is due other
tribes In Minnesota will be paid them this
winter: as soon: as the amount due each
is ascertained., r > $500.
- WV. Jermane.