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200,000 must be selected from land cure for the Indians the full market 



classed as "pine land' and the re- price for the timber sold, to provide 



maining 25,000 acres from land clas- against the destruction of a forest part 



sifted as "agricultural land.' : The se- of which might advantageously be 



lection of all this was also assigned to made permanent by leaving a small 



the same bureau. The 6,400 acres percentage of the merchantable trees, 



chosen lie along the east and south and to open to agricultural use the 



shores of Cass Lake, and all around land suitable for this purpose, 

 an arm of this lake extending south- The pine timber on the 105,000 acres 



ward, called Pike Bay, and four or already selected by the bureau has 



five small lakes immediately south of been sold, subject to the 5 per cent 



it. Nature has made the locality ex- reservation clause. It brought a bet- 



ceedingly attractive, and reserving it ter price than did similar timber out- 



from the ax and settlement will keep side the reserve, sold without such 



from destruction the wilderness beauty restrictions. The bureau has marked 



of these lakes, set in forests of virgin on 50,000 acres left standing, and the 



pine. work of marking the remainder is rap- 



Of the 225,000 acres, the bureau has idly going forward. It is estimated 

 already selected 105,000, lying in a that it will require three or four years 

 fairly compact body northeast, east, to remove the timber from the "lands 

 and southeast of Cass Lake. The se- already selected, and that it will be 

 lection of the remaining 120,000 acres seven or eight years before the tira- 

 awaits the completion of the Indian ber of the whole 200,000 acres is re- 

 allotments to be made in that region, moved. 



and the delineation by the War De- In the meantime, the bureau has 



partment of the exact flowage lines performed its duty under the law 



for the areas that will be submerged carefully, and as expeditiously as pos- 



when the water reaches the legal sible. It located the reserve on the 



height behind its two dams, already headwaters of the Mississippi, where 



constructed. it will most effectively serve its func- 



The law requires that on the 200,- tion. The location of the 6,400 acres 

 ooo acres of pine land 95 per cent of comprising the 10 sections reserved 

 the pine should be immediately cut, from sale or settlement is also con- 

 leaving 5 per cent for reforestation, ceded to be the most advantageous 

 Far better results would have followed possible. The agents of the bureau 

 had the law provided for the protec- have more than half finished marking 

 tion from cutting of 25 or 30 per cent, the 5 per cent of trees to be left on 

 but the 5 per cent was all that could the first selection, and in this work- 

 be obtained at the time the Morris bill will easily keep ahead of the lumber- 

 was passed. ing under the sales that have been 



The law of 1889 provided for the made. 



sale of the land and the pine at the With the question of what further 

 same time. The law of 1902 separ- equitable claims against the govern- 

 ated the two. The pine was to be sold, ment the Indians may have, the Bu- 

 but the denuded land was to be class- reau of Forestry of course has nothing 

 ed as agricultural and to be opened to to do. Whether the large cash ad- 

 homestead sale and settlement, except vance already made to the Chippewas 

 the portion destined for a forest re- will be considered an offset in whole 

 serve. Great care was taken to pre- or in part against the value of the 

 scribe such methods of sale as would lands now withdrawn from .them i 

 permit the realization of the highest a question for Congress to decide, 

 possible price for the timber, the pro- policy followed in the past justifies 

 ceeds from the sale of which were to the anticipation that the Chippewas 

 go to the Indians. Briefly put, there- will be amply remunerated for these 

 fore, the intent of the law was to se-- lands and the small 5 per cent of tim- 



