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Show 88 REPORT OF THE CONMISSIONER OF INDIAN ARB'AIRS. and also to act with and for the individual allottees in negotiating ami-cable settlements with the oompany for right of way through the allotted tracts. Mr. Snowden's report of appraisement of damages has not yet been received. Wiohita and Southern Railway Company.-February 3, 1900, the Department granted authority for the above-named oompany to locate and survey a line of railroad commencing at a point on the south line of the State of Kansas at a point at or near 15 minutes west of the ninety-sixth degree of west longitude, and running thence by the most feasible and practicable route in a southerly direction to the south line of the Osage country; thence in a southerly and southeasterly direction through the Creek Nation, by or near Okmulgee, to or near McAlester or South McAlester, in the Choctaw Nation; thence in a southeasterly direction through the Choctaw Nation to a point on the southeasterly boundary thereof near Texarkana, Tex. No maps of definite location of the company's line of road have yet been submitted for approval. Gulf, Chickasaw and Kansas Railroad Company.-August 21, 1900, the Acting Secretary granted authority for the above-named company to make a preliminary survey for a line of railroad through the lndian Territory, commencing on the south line of the State of Kansas, directly south of the town of Peru, in Chautauqua County, and run-ning thence in a southerly direction through Oklahoma and the Indian Territory to a point on the north line of Grayson County, State of Texas; also to locate and survey a branch line running westerly from a point on the main line at or near Colgate to a point near Washita; also a branch line, according to an amended charter of said company, extending southeasterly from WoodviUe, in the Indian Territory, to the Red River. Eastern Railway Company of Xinnesota (formerly the Duluth, Superior and Western Railway Company).-September 12,1900, the Department approved the map showing the definite location of a portion of the Stony Brook branch of the company's proposed line of railroad from a junction with the constructed line of road in lot 5, sec. 28, T. 51 N., R. 18 W., on the Fond du Lac Reservation, Minn., extending thence northeasterly to the middle of the channel of the St. Louis River on the northern line of lot 8 in said section 28, a distance of 0.82 miles. The Department also designated and appointed S. W. Campbell, United States Indian agent of the La Pointe Agency, to assess the tribal damages for right of way of the company through the unallotted lands, and also to twt with and for the allottees in negotiating amicable settlements with the company for right of way through the allotted tracts. September 15 the company was advised of the action of the Department and Agent Campbell was given instructions for making the assessments. |