from the land ; and required the purchaser to cut clean 

 and remove all the merchantable pine timber, whether 

 green or dead, standing or fallen on each tract, subdi- 

 vision or lot covered by his purchase, and to burn or 

 remove a sufficient amount of the tops and refuse to 

 prevent danger from fire to the timber left standing. 

 It also provided that the timber should be scaled un- 

 der Scribner's Rules in the log after being cut (it is 

 fair to say that this rule had been followed for some 

 time in selling our state's timber), sold only by separate 

 sealed bids the bid to be accompanied with cash or 

 certified check for twenty per cent of the amount of 

 the bid, and not to be sold at a price less than four dol- 

 lars per thousand feet board measure for Norway pine, 

 and five dollars per thousand feet board measure for 

 white pine. 



During the thirteen years and five months previous 

 to the passage of this Act of 1902, there had been sold 

 from the Chippewa Indian reservations under the Act 

 of 1889 according to the appraisals from 171,167.48 

 acres 316,848,000 feet of pine timber, averaging only 

 1.88 thousand feet per acre, for $1,044,528.62, being at 

 the average price of $3.29 per thousand feet board 

 measure ; but during the fifteen years from June 27, 

 1902, to June 30, 1917, there were sold from 391,685.21 

 acres of said reservations, under the Act of June 27, 

 1902, 1,265,872,637 feet board measure of pine, aver- 

 aging 3.23 thousand feet per acre, for $8,954,453.10, be- 

 ing an average price of $7.07% per thousand feet, and 

 being nearly twice as much pine per acre as was found 

 under the Act of 1889. Including the proceeds of tim- 

 ber sold since June 3, 1917, and a few million feet re- 



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