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Show REPORT OF THE (IOMMI8SIONER OF INDIAN AFFALRS. 111 Snlphnr Springs,Railway Company.-October 11,1900, authority was granted this company to locate and survey a line of road between , Hickory and Davis, Chickasaw Nation, Ind T., via Sulphur Splings, provided the company would relinquish any right it might have acquired by its articles of incorporation in the matter of establishing electric-light plants. November 1, 1900, the office acknowledged receipt of a copy of a resolution of the board of directors of the oom-pany waiving any right under its charter to build its road except in accordance with the authority granted October 11, 1900. February 8, 1901, the office transmitted to the Department maps of definite loeation along two sections, showing the survey of road from Hickory to Davis, and March 28 the Departn~entr eturned, approved, nnderact of March 2,1899, the map showing the survey of tlie section from Hickory to Sulphur Springs, and, disappoved, the map showing the survey from Sulphur Springs to Davis. Specid Agent Taggart was. designated by the Department to appraise the damages arising from the survey and location of the line from Hickory to Sulphur Springs. June 29, 1901, he submitted corrected schedules showing the tribal dan~agesa warded by him for the above-described right of may, which were approved by the Department July 9. The company has been requested to remit the amount shown on the schedule to be due, $881.46. Western Oklahoma Railr'oad Company.--Application was filed in this . office December 19,1900, for permission to survey and locate a line of road commencing at a point near Hartshorne, on the Choctaw, Okla-homa and Gulf Railroad, to Ardmore, Ind. T., under the act of March 2, 1899, and accompanying the application were fled maps of definite . location of sections 1,2, and 3, showing the line of survey, commencing at a point near Hartshorne and extending thence southwesterly. January 5,1901, W. J. Scott, president, in behalf of the Denison and Northern Railway Company, filed a protest in this office against favor-able action on the application of the Western Oklahoma Railroad Com-pany. A hearing was held February 4,1900, in the o5ce of the Sew retary of the Interior, the Denison and Northern Railroad being repre-sented by Henry E. Davis, esq., and the Western Oklahoma Railroad by Meusrs. C. B. Stuart, J. W. McLoud, and Francis I. Gowen. By direction of the Department all the papers, maps, etc., filed in this office were submitted to the Department February 27,1901, and March 1 the Department approved the maps of definite location of sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 of the Western Oklahoma Railroad Company, show-ing the line of survey of the railroad from a point near Hartsholue to Ardmore. Inspector Cyius Beede and Special Agent E. B. Reynolds were designated to assess the damages arising by reason of such survey and location, u ~ d eirn struotions of this office dated March 9, 1901. Their |