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Show I REPORT OF T~IE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 107 Qompany making application for a right of way through the same pat- - . ented tracts in the same general direction. The application of the latter company was dated May 3,1892, and was received by this office on tlie 9th of t h e s h e month. On the 18th of June, 1892, the facts relative to the conflicting desires of the two companies for right of way through the same patented tracts were submitted to theDepartment for its direc-tion as to what further action should he taken respecting each company. Under date of the 28th of the same month, the Secretary replied direct-ing that the Bayfield ~ a r b oain d Great Western Railway Company be given the preference by reason of priority of survey and application; that the work of obtaining the consent of and deeds from the Indian patentees be proceeded with in reference to that company, as thereto-fore ordered, and that the Bayfield, Lake Shore and Western Railroad Company be informed that if it desires a right of way across said reservation over the same, or nearly the same, route of the first-men-tioned cozupany, such right of way, if any is granted, will be entirely subordinate to the right of way applied for by the Bayfleld Harbor and Great Western Railway Company. On June 30, 1892, Agent Leahy was accordingly again directed to proceed with the matter of negoti-ating with the individual patentees for right Of way of the Bayfield Harbor and Great Western Railway Company through the reservation. On July 22,1892, Agent Leahy forwarded to this office the deeds for right of way of an the patentees except for the NW. & of the SW. of section 25, township 51, range 4 west, which is owned by minor heirs. He states that this deed will be executed by guardian and forwarded as soon as an exemplified copy of the letters of guardianship can be procured. This latter deed was forwarded by Agent Leahy on July 30,1892, but without the exemplified copy of the letters of guardian. ship being attached. INDIAN TERRITORY. Denison and Nortbern Rail~cay.C ompany.-By act of Congress ap-proved July 30,1892 (27 Stat., p. 336 aiid p. ,723 of this report), the Deuison and Northern Railway Company, a corporation created un-der and by virtue of the laws of Texas, was granted a right of way through the Indian Territory, beginning at a point to he selected by said railway company on Red River, near Denison, in Grayson County, in the State of Texas, and running thence by the most practicable route through the Indian Territory in a northerly direction to the southern boundary of the State. of Kansas, at or near Coffeyville, in said State, with a right to construct and operate a branch line of rail-way, beginning at a point about twenty miles north of Red IZiver, on the main line; thence in a northwesterly direction to a point on the western line of the Indian Territory at or near where it is crossed by the Canadian River. No maps of definite location of the line have yet been filed for approval. ~ u t c h i a~,n~d Sno uthern Railroad.-By act of Congress approved Feb-ruary 3,1892 (27 Stat., 2, and p. 709 of this report), the aqt granting the |