Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — MORE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. [ARTICLE]

MORE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

One million five hundred thousand acres of land have been purchased from the Indians of the Colville (Wash.) reservation by the Government at $1 per acre, and will be thrown open to settlement. The Indians first select land in severalty. Under the treaty every Indian man, woman and child has a right to select eighty acres in severalty. The Government must erect a blacksmith shop for the nse of the Indians on the reservation. The treaty shall go into effect immediately upon Its approval by Congress. The land ceded will constitute one of the richest and moat attractive portions of the State. It comprises fanning and grazing, has fine streams and mountains of minerals. The territory ceded Is larger 1 than the State of Delaware and more than twice as large as Rhode Island.