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Show 86 REPORT OF THE OOMMlSSlONER OF INDIAN AWFAIRS. Oklahoma, Okmulgee and Southern Railway Company.-August 16, 1899, the above-named company submitted formal application for the location and survey of a line of railroad through lands in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, from Arkansas City, in the State of Kansas, through Kay, Noble, and Pawnee counties and the Osage Indian Res-ervation, in Oklahoma, and thence through the Indian Territory to a point on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway near Red Fork, in the Creek Nation, and extending thence in a southerly direction, by way of Twin Mounds and Okmulgee, in the Creek Nation, to McAlester, in the Choctaw Nation. September 6,1899, the Department returned the application and all the papers inclosed unapproved, and directed this office to allow the company an opportunity to show cause why its said application should not be rejected bemuse of a conflict with other located lines of railroad. The company was allowed thirty days to show cause why its application should not be rejected, and to serve upon the proper officers of the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Rail-way Company its arguments and statements in behalf of the location and construction of its line of road. So far as known, no further action was taken by the company. Oklahoma City and Western Railway Company.--October 21, 1899, the Department granted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of railroad through Indian lands in Oklahoma and Indian Territories, commencing at or near the southwest corner of Oklahoma City, Okla., and extending thence in a southwesterly direction to South Canadian River; thence crossing said river about 14 miles southwest of Oklahoma City at or near what is commonly known as Rock Crossing; thence in a southwesterly direction by the most practicable route through the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, crossing the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at Chickasha; continuing thence in a southwesterly direction by way of the Eeechi Hills, in the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation; thence southwesterly to a point at or near Fort Sill; thence southerly and westerly near the foot of the Wichita Mountains to the North Fork of the Red River, crossing said river about 13 miles due east of Altus, in Greer County; thence by the way of Altus in a southwesterly direction through G-reer County and crossing the Red River at a point about 12 miles northeast of Acme, Tex. January 10,1900, the Department approved the maps of definite location of the company through the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation and through the Chickasaw Nation; also the general map showing the entire line of the company's road from Oklahoma City to Acme. Shawnee, Oklahoma and Xissouri Coal and Railway Company.-Novem-her 9,1899, the Department granted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of railroad, commencing at Shaw-nee, Okla., and extending thence in a northeasterly direction to the |
