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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



August, 



I'holo by Mr. Arthur B. Herrell. 



WHITE PINE TIMBER ON THE CHIPPEWA RESERVATION FOUR MII^ES EAST OF THE VIEL.'VGE 



OF CASS L.\KE. 



lauds Oil the Indian reservations of 

 northern Minnesota, creates a forest re- 

 serve of more than 200,000 acres. The 

 bill authorizes the sale of the merchant- 

 able pine timber on the lands of the 

 ceded Indian reservations that after sur- 

 vey may be classed as "pine lands." 

 The lands to be reserved are to be se- 

 lected from these pine lands as soon as 

 practicable by the Forester of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, with the ap- 

 proval of the Secretary of the Interior, 

 on the four following reservations: The 

 Chippewas of the Mississippi, Leech 

 Lake, Cass Lake, and Winnebigoshish. 



It is provided that these lands selected 

 by the Forester are to be known as 

 " forestrj^ lands," and on which the 

 purchaser shall be required to leave 

 standing 5 per cent of the pine tim- 

 ber for the purpose of reforestation. 

 This is to be selected and reserved under 

 such rules and regulations as ma}' be 

 prescribed by the Forester of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture and approved 

 b}^ the Secretary of the Interior. The 

 bill provides further that there shall be 

 reserved from sale or settlement the 

 timber and land on the islands in Cass 

 Lake and in Leech Lake and not less 



