Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-17
of the surplus lands in the tract b
hOmesteaderS.

of the surplus lands in the tract by
homesteaders.
All lands are then classified accord
ing to their value for farming, graz
ing, forestry or mining and appraised
| as to their relative cash values. The
Indians are next allotted permanel:
homesteads from the lands. before the
white settlers are permitted to make
their choice.
With the frequent openings of In
dian lands, the Indians have become
expert bargainers, and have forced the
government to deal out larger par
eel of land than formerly, to each
member of the tribe, and to pay
higher price for the lands set aside as
public school lands. The Indians held
up the treaties at Fort Berthold and
Pine Ridge until the last session of
congress, because the government did
not offer them what they believed to
be satisfactory terms.
The majority of the Indian treaties
have been negotiated by Indian In
spector James Mclaughlin, who has
worked amongst the Indians on gov
eminent business since the days of
Custer and Sitting Bull. Maj. Nc
Laughfin. has been the pioneer of
nearly all land openings while Judge
J. w. Witten of the federal land Of
flee at Washington, has been the final
figure on the scene, the presiding gen.
ius at all lotteries and the wielder Of
the hammer at all land auction sales.
ho inn r.
ed for opening next year, with their
approximate areas, are as follows:
Observation-Disclosures. $4,000 acres;
Fort Peck 1,7760O0.
Washington-COlviIle 100000.
North Dakota-FOrt Berthold, $780,
OOO
South Dakota-Rosebud. $4,000;
Pine Ridge. 100000.
With deductions made from these
figures for aIlotments to the Indians,
it is expected that the amounts to
be, offered to the public in the respec-
tive areas will about as follows:
Blacheet. 100000; Fort Peck. t.
100000; Colville, 100000; Fort Ber-
tho1d, 100000; Rosebud, 100000; Pine
Ridge, practically nothing.
The Pine Ridge reservation in South
Dakota. including much valuable prop
erty within it's borders, is another
tract in which the white settler will
have little opportunity to secure a
home. Preliminary reports received
at the Indian office from men engag-
in allotting the lands, state that there
will be hardly anything left when the
Indians have hoon cared for
More Sioux Indians live on the Pinr
Ridge reserve than any other tract
set aside by the government. Over
5000 of them are claiming allottments
of from $50 to $40 acres each, and
when all have been provided for it is
believed there will be small comfort
for the white settler in the remaining
lands.
The indians on the Fort Berthold
reservation in North Dakota have sue
ceeded in squeezing an additional 1885,
900 acres of land out of Uncle Sam.
cutting down to that extent the
amount that will be offered to the pub
lic The allottments were all finished
there when congress passed its bill
a few weeks ago, authorizing the open
ing of part of the reservation to set
Element. This bill gave each Indian
an additional quarter section, and the
government agents must parcel out
as much more in homesteads to the
Indians as they had already given to
them.
Other Reservations.
Some of the most valuable lands to
beoffered next year will be included