Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-08
ESTIMATING | /: 5 n A CORPS R
Description of the Work
= Done by Warren's =
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A dispatch from Cass Lake to tho
Duluth Herald gives il the following
about the Rovernnent estimating crew
which has just dniahed,its work:
The Chippewa estimating corps,
appointed under the provision Of tho
Morris law to examine and classify all
lands on the Chippewa reservation Of
Minnesota, has completed its work
and the members of the corps have
loft for their respective homes. This
corps was organized during the month
of December. 1903. with e. L. War
rem, of Cas- Lake az chief. and four.
teen men were chosen from list Of
applications which numbered over
100. The arst work of the corps was
done on the Mississippi reservation.
In town 1881 and 80. This work was
completed on April 1st, 'os. The men
were then ordered to the Red Lake
reservation. where they examined and
classified large tract Of land. COM
pleting the same on Aug. 18th. They
returned to Cass Lake a few days
later. and were ordered to work on
the Pigeon River, Fond du Lac Bots
Fort, Deer Greek reservation. This
work was completed on October lat
and the men returned to Cas- lake
with their reports On Oct 10th, or
ders were received from Washington
to re-examine all lands on the Missis-
sippi Chippewa reservations, which
had bean reported by the Seelye corps
a. being Agricultural Dec. q found
this work all completed, when the
men were ordered to lay of for two
weeks, at the end Of which time in
struotions came to examine and CLASH
~ the lands Of the Chippewa reserva.
ton north Of the Lake Of the Woods.
known as the ''Northwest Angle. !"
On Dec. / the men left for the
''angle" going in by the way of
Warroad. After work that, consider
ing the weather conditions, was we'll
nigh superhunan. this job was COM
plotted March 9th. Then the men were
assigned the task Of examining cer-
tain cancelled Indian allotments, on
the Leech Lake, Cass Lake and Win
lnibigoshish reservations. which they
finished on March 26th. The corps
was then disbanded. and that night q
banquet was served at the Tedford
hotel. IN Cass Lake. at which the
members Of the corps held q reunion
and babe each other farewell. The
last reports were handed In to Chief
Clerk Funk. and Chief Of the Corps
Warren had his report commenced.
The final report was completed on
Thursday, and the same together with
the resignation Of MI. Warren, wa
forwarded to the department.
! The work performed by the Warren
estimating corps has received the
highest praise @trom the officials al
Washington and :. the men located here
i. who are assisting In the carving out
tof tho provisions Of the Morris law.
Under the operation Of the old Nelson
law. the members Of thst corps re-
ceived e6 per- day. and each forty OF
land was examined ~ three different
men, making total cost to the In
dian ct $l8. The gross inacouracy of
the work done by the old corps has
been q matter of much comment and
no little scandal, among other things
said of the corps being the charge
that, in many instances. reports were
turned in of land that 1t was said had
never been examined. The members
Of the Warren corps received IS per
day, and bat one man did the work
on single forty. which, under the
Nelson law, required three. This left
the cost per day $40 less than the
amoant-$18-that was paid to the
three men. That the work of the last
corps was entirely satisfactory can be
judged by the following statement.
given out by Eugene s.. Bruce, CHIEF
l1mberman Of the bureau of forestry
II have had good reason for person.
ally examining large portion Of the
land gone over by the Warren corps.
On the accuracy or inaol uracy Of thu
work done by the corps would largely
depend much Of the work that viii
be done in this vicinity of Caas Lake