Show V CRO RESERVATION INDIANS GET CT A BIG BIC PRICE PRIC FOR Under New Plan of Letting Amount Is Increased Threefold W WASHINGTON Aug AUf 14 Commis Commissioner stoner of Indian Affairs Valentine today today to to- day announced the following awards on bids for pasturing cattle and sheep on the Crow Indian reservation Montana i for forth the year beginning e February 1 1910 Pastures Nos 1 and 2 were awarded to the Spear Brothers Cattle company I of Sheridan Wyo for the thc sum suns of 53 i per annum as compared with 18 received as rental this year year No 4 was awarded to C. C M. M I. I Blair of Billings Mont for O annual ren tal This pasture brought last year vea Pas Pasture ure No Xo 6 was awarded to J. J JE E. E l-darda l Co Forsyth Forsth Mont for lor forthe forthe the sum Eum of per annum as compared corn com pared with 2500 rele received ed this year New Plan a Success This This-in is the tho first opening of bids by bythe bythe bythe the Indian office under Commissioner 8 J plan lan of lettin letting grazing lands on Indian reservations under sealed healed bids It resulted in obtaining almost almot three times timea the amount heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore received elved by bv the Indians of the I Crow reservation |