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Show 68 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southtcestern Railway Company.-By act of Congress approved February 21,1899 (30 Stats., 844, and p. 495 of this report), the act of Congress approved December 21,1893 (28 Stats., p. 22), and the act approved February 15, 1897 (29 Stats., 629), granting right of way to the above-mentioned company through Oklahoma and Indian Territories, were extended for a period of three years from and after Deuember 21,1898; so that said company shall have until December 21,1901, to build the first 10 miles of its railway iu said Territories, and two years thereafter to complete the same. Sectio112 of the act of February 15,1897, was amended so as to give the company the right to locate and construct an extension of its main line, starting at or near Bartlesville, in the Indian Terri-tory and extending in a south or southeasterly direction through the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Chickasaw nations to a point on Red River, north of Sherman, Tex. Section 3 authorizes and empowers the company to locate and oonstrnct a branch line of road from a point at or near Stillwater, Okla., and extending thence in a south or southwesterly direction through the counties of Lincoln, Pottawatornie, Cleveland, and Oklahoma to a point on the south line of said Terri-tory; thence south or southwesterly through the Chickasaw Nation to a point on Red River opposite the oity of Henrietta, Tex. January 13, 1899, the Secretary of the Interior approved the map of definite location of section 1 of the branch line of the road from the junction with the main line in section 10, township 26 north, range 12 east of the Indian meridian to a point in section 36, township 28 north, range 13 east of the Indian meridian, in the Cherokee Nation, a distance of 25 miles; also a map of definite location of fractional section No. 2 of the branch line of the road from the end of section No. 1, as above deseribed, to a point in section 20, township 22 north, range 1 eant of the Indian meridian, Cherokee Natiou, a distance of 5 miles. March 15,1899, tbe Aoting Secretary approved the map of definite location of section No. 1 of the main line of the road from a point near the northwest corner of the Uberokee Nation, extending southerly through the Uherokee Nation, by way of Bartlesville, and thence westerly and southwesterly into the Osage Nation to a point in section 13, towxxship 26 north, range 11 east of the Indian meridian, a distance of 25 miles. No maps of definite location under the amendatory sot of February 21, 1899, have yet been submitted for approval. Baineszrille, lMcAlester and St. Louis Railway Cmpaay.-By iwt of Congress approved February 25,1899 (30 Stats., 891, and p. 496 of this report), the act of Congress approved March 1,1893 (27 Stats., 522), granting the above-named company a rigbt of way through the Indian Territory, was extended for a further period of three years from and after the passage of the act. No maps of definite location of the com-pany have yet been filed in this oEce for approval. Denison, Bonlham and Gulf Railroad Company.-By act of Congress approved February 28,1899 (30 Stats., 914, and p. 501 of this report), |
