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THE FORESTER. 



December, 



however, at their good fortune in getting 

 seven times the amount of Pine bought 

 and paid for, because they, knowing well 

 the utter unreliability of the government 

 estimators, had sent their own reliable 

 cruisers to estimate every tract on which 

 they were going to bid at the public 

 sale. 



and from the last of March, 1899, 

 now, no further steps have been taken by 

 the Government under the Nelson Law 

 and Rice Treaty. 



Sales of Pine and so-called agricultural 

 lands had been made on the Red Lake 

 reservation amounting to $1,060,456.85 at 

 an expense to the government, to be 



'mm ||->rppr' W-eUv. Copyright, 1897, by Harper A Brothers. 



Reprinted ft om Harper's Weekly bv permission. Copyright, 1900, by ffj.rper & Brothers. 



After two corps of estimators had been 

 successively discharged, and a third had 

 been engaged for some time in estimating 

 the Pine, Congress, on March i, 1899, 

 amended the "Nelson Law" by granting 

 the Secretary of the Interior power in his 

 discretion to stop any further work in 

 estimating those Pine lands. The Secre- 

 tary promptly exercised his discretion; 



charged to the Indians, under the Nelson 

 Law of $435,000. 



MOVEMENT IN FAVOR OF THE PARK. 



Meanwhile a movement was started in 

 Minnesota and elsewhere to save a part 

 of those beautiful forests in northern 

 Minnesota. The Medical Fraternity and 

 the women of the State, aided by others 



