The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-15
Occur d'HIene Reservation.

Owing to the widespread interest in the subject
we print entire the following taken from The Harri-
son Searchlght.
The Scimtar crculates quite largely in every
county in Idaho and has a circulation in almost
every State in the Union, and this account and
because we have received numerous inquiries, we
are glad to reproduce the carefully expressed views
of Register Dunn.
After the aotments are determined upon and the
appraisement made we will be pleased to print the
amount of land and the classification subject to entry
by white people and the price per they will have
to pay.
1t is evident that people from every part of the
United States are anxious to secure Idaho land
and there is none better than the rich lands of North
Idaho
A letter written recently to the Idaho Press by
R. N Dunn register of the land office at Occur d
Aene, should settle the matter to when the
reservation lands will be thrown open to the public,
for some time at least AS many of readers
are deeply interested in the opening of the lands
we publish below the vital parts of the letter re-
ferred to:
GAS soon as the lands embraced within the Occur
d Alene Indian reservation shall have been surveyed,
the secretary of the interior shall cause aotments
of the same to be made to all persons belonging
having tribal relations said Occur d Alene
Indian reservation, to each man, and child
al of such aotments by the secretary of the interior
he shall patents to issue therefor under the
provisions of the general allotment law of the
United States.
"That upon the completion of said allotments to
said Indians the residue surplus landS-that is,
lands not allotted reserved for Indian school,
agency or other purposes-of the Occur d Alene
Indian reservation shall be classified under the di
rection of the secretary of the interior agricuu
raj lands grazing lands or timber lands, and shall
be appraised under their appropriate classes by legal
subdivisions, and upon completion of classification
and appralsment, such surplus lands shall be opened
to settlement and entry under the provisions of the
homestead laws.
THE law further provides that the proclamation
of the president shall prescribe the time of opening
The following steps have been taken preparatory
to the opening of the reservation. The lands have
been surveyed and allotng agent has been ap-
pointed Mr. W. B. Sans we'll known to many of
readers, has been selected to allo the lands to
the Indians and it is generally supposed that he will
come some time this month, though far
| know has any official information to this effect
Since there is undoubtedly considerable amount of
preliminary work to be done, [ should say that it
is not likely that the actual work of making the
allotments will begin before spring opens. How
long the allotng will require tell, but
1t is reasonably certain, think that considerable
time will have elapsed before all the Indians, num-
berlng more than 600 have taken their allotments.
After the allotments have been made, each forty
acre tract remaining will have to be examined class
liled and appraised So far as I am informed no
persons have yet been appointed to do this work,
which, it seems to me, will require as much time as
the alotments and possibly more
There are in the reservation twenty-sx town
ships Plats of the surveys of sixteen of these town
ships are now in the Occur d Alene land office The
other nne If they have been approved will probably
be received before long.
1T will be from the foregoing that large
amount of work remains to be done before the reser-
walton can be opened to settlement From the
amount OF time that must necessarily be consumed
in doing this work it seems to me that the opening
cannot possibly occur before fall and that it is like
ly to be delayed beyond that time