The Tomahawk., 1903-04-23

apolis, Saint Paul, Duluth, Winona,
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-
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 general description
of the lands from which the timber
is to be sold, and shall refer in
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
Act. Said notices shall also state
in what tracts or parcels the tim
Der is to doe sold: Provided, That
one additional notice calling atten-
ton particularly to date of the
sale shall be published thirty days
prior to the day fixed for the sale
in the first advertisement: Provid-
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
the Mississippi, Leech Lake, Cass
Lake, and " il1nebagoshish, which
said lands 80 selected shall be known
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
centum to be selected and reserved
in such manner and under such rules
and regulations as may be prescrIb-
ed by the Forester Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture and approved.
by the Secretary OF the lnterlor:I
Provided further, That there shall:
be reserved from sale or settlement
the timber and land or the islands
in Cass Lake and in Lecch Lake,
and not less than one hundred and
sixty acres at the extremity OF Sug-
ar Point, on Leech Lake, and the
peninsula known as Pine Point, on.
which the new Leech Lake Agency
is now located, which peninsula APP
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, sand 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