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Show XSII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Arizona Soutlbern Railroad-Papago Reserve, Arixona.-On the 21st April last, the Arizona Southern Railroad Cornpiany, engaged in build-ing a liue of railroad from Tucson, Arizona, to the Mexican border line, some ten miles south of Calabaz, made an informal a,greelnent with Chief Ascension Riox, on behalf of the Papago Indians, for a right of way 200 feet wide from north to south through the Papago Reserve, covering a distance of about, eight miles. For this concession the com-pany agreed to erect, within' the reservation for the use of the Indians, a school house of adobe, to cost $3,000. Upon submission of this agree-ment to the department, yon directed that, since the reservation was created by Executive order, and hence was excepted from the provisions of the right-of-way act of March 3,1875, the company should first obtain the authority of Oongress for a right of way before taking any fbrther action in the matter. By aot of Congress approved August 5,1882, a right of way not ex-ceeding 200 feet in width through the Papago Indian Reservation was granted to the Arizona Southern Railroad Oompauy, according to the pluns of route and survey of the said company, now on file in this de-l~ drtmenat nd approved by the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the co~~s eonf t the Indians occupying said reservation' and to the payment by said railroad company to the Secretary of the Interior of such com-pen8ation as may be fixed by him, to be expended by him for the benefit of the said Indians. Measures are now being taken to carry out the provisions of tlre act. Denrer and Eio Ctrande Railroad-Ute Reserve in Colorado.-On May 12,1880, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of March 2, 1868, with the Ute Indians in Colorado, the President issued his procla-mation authorizing the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company to construct its line of railroad! with extensions and branches $hereof, through the Ute Reservation. On April 22, 1881, inforrndtion having reached this office that the Indians were becoming restive at the pres-ence of the working force of the railroad, and had threatened to stol~ the work until compensation was made to them for the lands taken, I reported the facts to the department, and on May 3, following, the president of the company was notified by your predecessor to stop the con~tructiono f the road until the consent of the Indians had beell ob. tained and proper con~pensatiou] ]lade to them. No attention waspaid by the conr~anyto this notice. The road ha,s been coustructed and is nov ill o#eration, and the question of compensation still remains open. 111 his a,nnual report to the President, your predecessor held that the Iudians were entitled to co~npenswtiouf or the occ1q)ancy of their lauds b j the company, and recon~me~qdetdh at suitable action be taken b r Congress lookir~gt o an acljustment of the rights of the respective par-ties. (See annual report of Secretary of Iuterior for 1881, p. X.) No actiou, hoverer, appears to have bee11 taken by Cor~gresisn the matter. |