The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-23
IMPORTANT TO USERS OF
i RESERVATION RANGE

James B. Hitch, Supt. of the Fort
Peck reservation, writes:
Attention of all persons who have
cattle, horses, sheep or other stock
running on the Fort Peck Indian res
~ervation is invited to the following
general order:
Notice is hereby given that all per-
sons running stock of any description
on the Fort Peck Indian reservation
will be expected to settle the prevail
ing reservation rate for said privilege
on or before September Oath, 1921.
1t appears that there are a large
amount of stock of this class being
run on reservation lands on trespass
permits. Owners of this stock are
warned that payment for back tres
pass and for the present year must be
paid on or before this date to prevent
action being taken toward a seizure
and collection through the Federal
court.
l therefore advise all persons COM
ing within this order to check up the
number Of stock owned by them and
so trespassing and make immediate
return by certified check or bank draft
to Superintendent James B. Kitch,
Poplar, Montana and no unpaid tres
passes will be tolerated after this
date.
Persons desiring a lease for the
purpose of running stock of any ma
ture beginning this fall are advised of
the following regulations.
The practice of permitting stock to
run on the reservation at so much per
head is to be discontinued and a sys-
tenn of leasing by acreage to be es-
tablished. Persons owning horses,
cattle, sheep or other animals and de-
string pasturage for same on this res
ervation will therefore Immediately
select the land they desire to lease
and be prepared to make a one year
lease on same on regular form in this
office.
In the event of numerous applica-
lions being made it will be necessary
to apportion water in such manner as
applicable to the land selected and les
sees will be requested to place fence
or other method of retaining their
stock on the land so leased.
A meeting will be held at the agency
office at Poplar, Montana, September
24th, 1921 with such stock men who
desire to lease lands for the year be-
ginning November LIST, 1921, and /
would urge that all men having stock
of any nature and who wish to use
lands on this reservation be present
in order that we may block out the
areas and have leases prepared and
signed by the Indians owning land in
the required territory.
Persons leasing land will be requir-
ed to either pay in advance for the
acreage so leased or furnish salts
factory bonds. | trust that the stock
men of this reservation will meet this
offer with a full spirit of cooperation
as the change in the leasing system
has been found necessary and l believe
will be beneficial to both the Indians
and the stock man and is one followed
out and practiced on all reservations.
I would appreciate a meeting of the
stock men so interested in order that
we may take up different questions in
a perfectly frank and open meeting as
to rates and other conditions which
may arise and | can ASSURE you of our
cooperation in assisting in these mat
tiers of any stock men VIII wish the use
of such lands and who are willing to
pay for same.
Attention is again invited to any
delinquent payments of anyone who
has stock running on the reservation
except in cases where regular leases
by acreage have been prepared. This
matter refers only to those who are
running stock on this reservation
without regular signed leases for the
land used and this regular signed lease
will be the only method from now on
used in leasing IRdian land and the
only one recognized by this office.
I trust that this notice is perfectly
plain and that any person running cat
tie without these leases or refusing
to nav delinquent rentals for other