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Show used, viz., maintaining a hospital, and otherwise providing for the poor, sick, and helpless of the tribe. The Indians are anxious to have the act amended so as to allow a greater quantity of logs to he banked and sold in one year, claiming that 20,000,000 feet does not give them work enough for the season. Although it is probable that they could have marketed a second 20,000,000 at considerable less expense per thousand feet than attended &he first: yet it is doubtful if authority to sell a greater quantity in one Reason xonld be beneficial, as it might induce them to turn their attcn- &ion wholly to the lumber business, to the neglect of farming interests. RAILROADS OVER RESERVATIONS. During the past year Congress has made the following grants for the ~onstructiono f railways across Indian lands: @RAND JUNCTION SCHOOL LANDS, COLORADO. Rio Orande Junction Railway.-The act of October 1,1890 (26 Stats., 364), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey in fee to this -company for right of way a strip of land in Nesa County, Colo., now held by the United States for school purposes, not to exceed in the ag- .gregate 26.3 acres, provided the company shall first convey or oause to beconveyed to the United Statesin fee a tract adjoining the said school lands aggregat~ng3 5 acres. The attorneys for the company filed in thisofflce a deed'forthis tract, .but it was returned to them August 27 last for more complete informa- ..tion relative to certain transfers indicated in the abstract of title pre-sented therewith. INDIAN AND OKLAHOMA TERRITORIES. Port Gibson, Tahleqnah and Great Northern Railway.-The act of March -3,1891 (26 Stats., 844, and page 634 of this report), grants the right of way for the extension of this railway from the town of Rogers, in the .Stat.e of Arkansas, through the Cherokee Nation, viaTahlequah, to Fort Gibson. No maps of the proposed road have as yet been filed in this .office, Fort Worth and Denver City Railway.-The act of. October 1, 1890 .I26 Stats., GGl), extends the provisions of the act of February 24,1.887 (24 Rats., 419), granting right of way through the Indian Territory to -this company, so that it shall have until February 24,1893, to build .the first 50 miles of its road. Eutchinson and Southern Railway.-The act of September 26, 1890 :(26 Stata., 485), grants the right of way north and south into theIndian ,(Oklahoma) Territory to a connection with the Chicago, Eansas and Nebraska Railwag* at or near Pond Creek. So far i s this office is ad- .vised no steps have yet been taken looking to its construction. |