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Show There are other companies, notably the Raymond-San Bois and the Muskogee National, operating lines constructed prior to that act under franchises granted by the Indian nations. These companies will be required to come under the provisions of that act, as will also all other companies or individuals owning telephone lines in the Indian Territory. POWER LINES THROUGH INDIAN LANDS. By act of February 15, 1901, entitled "An act relating to rights of way through certain parks, reservations, and other public lands" (31 Stats., 790), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, under gen-eral regulations to be fixed by hi, to permit the use of right of way through reservations of the United States, including Indian reserva-tions, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the generation and dis-tribution of electrical power, etc. The regulations prescribed require that applications must be accompanied by a map showing the route of the proposed line and must be filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Under that act the following companies have been authorized to locate and construct power lines through Indian lands. American Falls Power, Light, and Water Company, Limited.-This company was authorized by the office, January 18, 1902, to make a preliminary survey through the rort Hall Reservation for a power line. The application was duly filed in the General Land Office. May 8 this o5ce recommended it8 approval, and it was approved May 13. Washington Water Power Company.--November 6, 1901, the office authorized this company to make.preliminary survey of a line through the Coeur d'A1Bne Reservation, Idaho. June 20 this office recom-mended approval of the application and maps which had been filed in the General Land Office, and they were approved. ADDITION TO NAVAHO RESERVATION IN ARIZONA. The President, by Executive order dated November 14, 1901, with-drew from entry and settlement certain lands in the Territory of Ari-zona until such time as the Indians residing thereon shall have been settled permanently under the provisions of the homestead laws or the general allotment act of February 8,1887 (24 Stats., 388), as amended February 28,1891 (26 Stats., 794). The bo~indaryli ne of the tract so withdrawn commences at a point where the south line of the Navaho Indian Reservation (addition of January 8, 1900), intersects the Little Colorado River. It runs thence due south to the fifth standard par-allel; thence east on that parallel to the middle of the south line of township 21 north, range 15 east; thence due north to the south line of |