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Show May 26 this office instructed Agent Wyman, of the Crow Agency, and Special Agent Smith in the matter of conducting the negotiations with the individual members of the trihe for rightof way through their respective allotments. July 31, 1893 they submitted bheir report with a schedule show111g the names of allotteeti, from 1 to 132, inclusive, whose lands are crossed by the road, the amount of damages sustained by each, and a map sl~owiuga much-desired change in the location of the road in the vicinity of the agency buildings and the agency school. The schedule shows the total amount of laud take11 for right of way and depot grounds to be 7894 acres; total damages assessed, $4,087.20, of which $290 are for improvements. Land not under irrigation was valued at $4 per acre, while irrigable lands were valued at $8 per acre. The report was submitted to the Secret,ary of the Interior on August 10,1893, with the recommendation that the schedule of appraisements and the several individual agreements be approved; they were accord-ingly approved on August 24 and returned to this office. The Secretary also authorized the collection of damages as shown by the schedule of appraisements. On August 30 the appraised damages were paid by sight draft on the assistant treasurer of the company. Puyallup Reservation, Wash.-By act of Congress approved Feb-ruary 20,1893 (27 Stat., 468), the agreement of Xovelnber 21,1876, between the Indiaus of the Puy:tllnp Reservation and the Northern PaciJic Railroad Cornpan?/, for right of way through tho reservation, was ratified and approved. -4s has already been ~nent.ioned( p.61), the wamc act granted the company a right of way for a spur or branch to their already constructed road for a distance of 1,378 fe.et 011 the reser-vation, upon the paymeut of not less than $1,500 per acre for a11 laud so taken and used, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be right and proper. March 1,1893 the Secretary of the Interior fixed the price t l ~ asth ould be paid for said land at $2,000 per acre. This oEce, ou March 3,1893, notified Age116 Eells, of the Puyallup Agency, of the action of the Departuierlt and instructed him to notify the company thereof and to call upon t,hcn~fo r the filing of a map that would show the number of acres of laxld taken, and to call upon them for payment therefor at the rate of @,000 per acre. April 28 the com-pany filed a map showing the acreage so taken aud used to be 1.89 acres; also a dratt for $3,780 in payment for said laud. The money was deposited in the Uuited States Treasury to the credit of the Pnyallap Indians as the proceeds of 111dia11la bor. Yakima Reservation, Wash.-By act of Congress approved March 3, 1893, the Iudian approltriation act (27 Stat., 631), the agreement of January 13,1885, between the Iudians occupying the Yakima Iteserva-tion and the ATortl~ern Paci$c Railroad Comnpa,ny for right of way through the reservation, was accepted, ratified, aud co~~firmeudp on condition that said company, ita successors or snsigns, should, within sixty days from the takiug effect of the act, pay into the Treasury of |
