The Tomahawk., 1903-04-23

apOllS, SAINT Paul, Duluth, W mona,
and Crookston, Minnesota; Chi
cago, Illinois; Milwaukee, La Cross,
Ashland, Wausau, and Marinette,
Wisconsin; Detroit, Saginaw, Me-
nominee, and Bay City, Michigan;
. Philadelphia and Williamsport,
Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachu-
setts: New Orleans, louisiana;
Saint Louis, Missouri; Albany,
New York, and Dubuque, Daven-
1 port, and Burlington, Iowa, and
in the following trade journals, to
. wit: The Northwestern Lumber
. man, of Chicago, Illinois, and the
Mississippi Valley Lumberman,
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, of
the sale of said timber as
. herein provided to the highest bid
. der, with the right to reject any
and all bids, the first publication
!. of said notices to be at least six
. calander months prior to said sale,
said notices to state the time and
place and the terms of such sale,
and contain a general description
/ of the lands from which the timber
is to be sold, and shall refer in
4 tending bidders to the printed lists
to be obtained from the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office
or register of the local land office,
as provided in section four of this
i Act. Said notices shall also state
/. in what tracts or parcels the tim
]! Der is to be sold: Provided, That
one additional notice calling atten-
1 tion particularly to date of the
1 sale shall be published thirty days
prior to the day fixed for the sale
4 in the first advertisement: Provid-
i, ed further, That in cutting the tim
] Der on two hundred thousand acres
of the pine lands, to be selected as
soon as practicable by the Forester
of the Department Of Agriculture,
! with the approval of the Secretary
| of the Interior, on the following
reservations, to wit: Chippewas OF
1 the Mississippi, Leech Lake, Cass
1 flake, and WiTnebagoslaish, which
4 said lands so selected shall be known
j and hereinafter described as for
estry lands, the purchaser shall be
required to leave standing five per
centum of the pine timber thereon
for the purpose of reforestation, as
hereinafter provided, said five per
centvlm to be selected and reserved
in such manner and under such rules
4 and regulations as may he prcsclrb-
ed by the Forester Of the Depart
! ment Of Agriculture and approved
| by the Secretary OF the Interior,
Provided further, That there shall:
! be reserved from sale or settlement
the timber and land Oh the islands
i in Cass Lake and in Iecch Lake,
and not less than one hundred and
sixty acres at the extremity OF Sug-
ar Point, on Ieech Lake, and the
peninsula known as Pine Point, on
which the new Lecch Lake Agency
! is now located, which peninsula ap-
proximate seven thousand acres.
and in addition thereto ten sections
| in area on said reservations last a
foresaid, to be selected by the For
ester of the Department Of Agrl7
culture, with the approval OF the
Secretary of the Interior, in lots
not less than three hundred and
twenty acres each in contiguous
areas, and nothing herein contained
shall interfere with the allotments
to the Indians heretofore and here
after made. The Islands in Cass
and Leech lakes and the land re-
served at Sugar Point and Pine
Point Peninsula shall remain as
Indian land under the control OF
! the Department OF the interior.
Each and every puIchaserOf tim
! Der hereunder shall be required and
shall enter into an agreement to cut
clean and remove all the merchant
able pine timber, whether green or
| dead. standing or fallen, on each