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Show Coal.-Since my last annual report coal leases in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have been submitted by this office and approved by the Department as follows: 1. Two leases in favor of the Samples Coal and Mining Company, submitted October 2,1900; October 4,1900, the Department approved lease No. 1 and disapproved lease No. 2. 2. One lease with the McAlester-Galveston Coal Mining Company, submitted October 8,1900, and approved October 18,1900. 3. One lease with H. Newton McEvers, submitted October 11,1900, and approved October 18,1900. 4. Six leases with Degnan and McConnell, submitted November 13, 1900; November 16,1900, the Department approved leases numbered 1, 2, and 3 and disapproved those numbered 4, 5, and 6. 5. One lease with the Folsom-Morris Coal Mining Company, sub-mitted November 19,1900, and approved November 22, 1900. 6. One lease with the Ozark Coal and Railway Company, submitted April 5, 1900, and approved December 10, 1900. The delay in the approval of this lease was caused by the absence of certain certificates that were required to be attached to the lease on account of a change that had been made in the lease form subsequent to the date when the lease was prepared. 7. Two leases with the St. Louis-Galveston Coal Mining Company, submitted January 12,1901, and approved January 14, 1901. 8. One lease with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Coal Company, submitted January 26,1901, and approved February 12, 1901. 9. Seven leases with the Osage Coal and Mining Company, sub-mitted Janua1.y 30,1901, and approved May 7,1901. 10. Seven leases with the Atoka Coal and Mining Company, suh-mitted May 1,1901, and approved May 7, 1901. 11. One lease with the Devlin-Wear Coal Company, submitted March 20,1901; and approved June 17, 1901. The above 26 coal-mining leases, with the 55 coal leases mentioned in my last report, make 81 leases approved since the passage of the Curtis Act. Of these, the lease with EdmnndMcKenna and Charles H. and Eldredge C. Amos, approved October 24,1899, has been canceled. It proved to be an unprofitable venture and the lessees desired to sur-render their lease; also, one lease with the Central Coke and Coal Company, which was approved August 27, 1900, was canceled at the request of the company for the same reasons. There are, therefore, at this time 79 approved leases of coal lands in the Choctaw and Chicka-saw nations. The rate of royalty on coal mined is still the same as was fixed by the Department March 1,1900, to wit, 8 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds, mine run. |