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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, for the year 1905
Part I ([1905])
Reports concerning Indians in Minnesota, pp. 227-236
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REPORTS CONCERNING INDIANS IN MINNESOTA. 233 Pine Point boarding school, located in the southeast corner of the reservation; also three day schools-White Earth Agency day school, located at the White Earth Agency; Pembina day school, located at Pembina township, near Mahno- men post-office; and the Porterville day school, located near Duane post-office. There is also a Catholic mission school for girls. The combined school capacity is for 500 children. The boarding schools and day schools were well patronized during the last year, and I am firmly of the opinion that the day school should be substituted. for boarding schools for the mixed-blood Indians. During the past year a large number of the children of the reservation have been enrolled in the nonreser- vation schools. Government sawmil.-During last logging season 986,100 feet of logs were banked by Indians to be sawed into lumber to be used in the buildfng of houses, etc., for removal Mille Lac and White Oak Point Indians. From the logs banked there was manufactured 500,000 feet of lumber and 360,000 shingles. Post-offices.-There have been established on the reservation a number of post- offices, and mail facilities are good, with the following post-offices: White Earth, Callaway, Beaulieu, Bement, Mahnomen, Duane. The building of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad through the western part of the agency has been a great benefit to the residents of the reservation. The railroad company has located stations at Callaway, where two grain elevators have been built; Ogema, where one elevator has been built; Wahbun, where two elevators have been built; Mahnomen, where two elevators have been built; and Bijou, where one elevator has been built. The building of these elevators has been the means of encouraging the Indians to raise grain, as they are able to market their grain without the long hauls which were necessary before the establishment of these elevators. Contracts were entered into with the Indians for the logging of dead and down timber, also for the logging of allotment timber. The price-paid for the banking of logs on the different landings ranged from $2.50 to $5 per thousand feet. These logs were sold on sealed bids. There was cut on tribal lands: 4, 980,550 feet of dead and down white and Norway. 23,030 feet green white, cut from roadways. 82,450 feet green Norway, cut from roadways. 5, 086, 030 feet. Which was sold for -----------------------------$50, 882.51 Cost of operations, sale, etc ------------------------26,024.23 Net proceeds ----------------------------- 24, 858.28 There was cut from allotted lands: 920 feet dead and down white and Norway. 8,076, 170 feet green white and Norway. 83,020 feet spruce. 37,140 Teet jack pine. 8, 197, 250 feet. Which was sold for -----------------------------$79, 280.57 Cost of operation, sale, etc ------------------------ 32,449.48 Net proceeds ------------------------------- 46,831.09 SIMON MICHELET, U. S. Indian Agent. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PINE POINT SCHOOL. WHITE EARTHI AGENCuY, MINNii., August 30, 1905. This school is located in the southeast corner of the White Earth Reservation, 35 miles from the agency and 20 miles from Park Rapids, Minn., a city on the Great Northern Railroad, with which we have telephone connections and from which we receive daily mail. Attendance.-Enrollment, 97 ; average attendance, 80. During the year the capacity of the school, 75 pupils, has been maintained and a number attending as day pupils. No
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