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Show I 66 REPORT OF THE QOMXKSBIONER OF INDIAN AFPAlREI. I RAILROADS ACROSS INDIAN LANDS. Since the date of the last annual report, authority has been granted for the survey and location of lines of railroad through Indian lands other than those of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, under the pro-visions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1899, to the compa-nies and through the lands as follows: Butte and Salmon River Electric Railway.-Permission was granted August 3, 1903, to make a preliminary survey for an electric railway through a portion of the Lemhi Reservation in Idaho. Chicago and Northwestern Railway.-Authority was granted June 24, 1903, for survey of an extension of its-branch line from Matoon, in the county of Shawano, and extending thence northeasterly across the northwestern corner of the Menominee Reservation into Langlade County, Wis. Central Pacific Railroad.-Map of amended location through a por-tion of the Pyramid Lake Reservation in Nevada, was approved July 6, 1903. Chicago, Bnrlington and Qnincy Railroad.-Pelmission was granted January 9, 1903, for changing the channel of the Little Big Horn River through the Old Fort Custer Military Reserve which, upon its abandonment by the War Department, reverted to the Crow Reser-vation in Montana. The changing of the channel was accomplished without damage to the Indian lands, as reported by the agent, May 20. Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway.-Permission was granted, under certain restrictions, July 9 and July 25, 1903, to make prelim-t ina1.y surveys for a line of railroad through the Uinta and Uncom-pahgre Ute reservations in Utah. Eastern Railway of Minnesota.-A map showing a change of location of this company's line of road through a portion of the Fond dn Lac Reservation, in Wisconsin, was approved April 29, 1903. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sanlt Ste. Marie Railway.-Maps showing an extension of the Birchwood Branch, 8.88 miles, through the Lac Courte Oreille Reservation, Wis., were approved June 23, 1903. July 8,1903, there was approved to this company maps showing an extension of its Glenwood Branch through the White Earth Reserva-tion, a distance of 36.601 miles. The line was subsequently amended for a distance of 22.553 miles, as shown upon maps approved August 28. Northern Pacific Railway.-Map showing a change in location of the company's line through Indian allotments on the Crow Reservation, Mont., near Bull Mountain, was approved January 28, 1903, and damages occasioned thereby, amounting to $1,600, were paid by the company July 28. Phoenix and Eastern Railway.-This company, whose proposed line will form a part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway sys- |
