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Show reason of making a survey along a similar route. This relinquishment was 6led April 5. All the papers were transmitted to the Department April 13, and on April 16 the Department approved the application - and the maps of definite location. Accompanying the maps were instruments executed by Indian allottees purporting to convey to the Watonga and Northwestern Railroad Company a right of way through their respective allotments. These instruments were accepted by the Department as receipts evidencing the payment by the railroad com-pany to the Indian allottees of the amounts named therein. Washiiton and (treat Northern Railway Company.-,July 5, 1901, Thomas R. Benton, attorney for this company, filed in this o5ce an application for permission to survey and locate a line of 'oad through Indian allotments in the north half of the Colville Indian Reservation, Wash. The application was transmitted to the Department July 10, and July 13 the request of the company was granted. July 18 the o5ce notified the company, through its attorney, that authority had been granted by the Department for it to survey and locate a line of road along the route described in its application, but that such authority did not permit any construction work to be undertaken until after maps of definite location should have been approved. Agent Anderson, of the Colville Agency, had telegraphed the office July 15 for informa-tion relative to the lights of tbe company in the matter of the con-struction of a road through Indian lands, and July 22 he telegraphed that the company had commenced construction upon certain Indian lands. Tbe agent was instructed by telegraph July 29 and July 31 that no construction work should be permitted, and he was directed to stop any such work then being undertaken by the company. August 13, 1901, the company, through its attorney, filed in this o5ce maps of definite location showing the survey of its lines of route, as follows: 1. From a point on the located line of said company's road on the west line of see. 20, T. 38 N., R. 37 E., which point is 17.14 miles southerly from the intersection . of said road with the international boundary line, to a. point on the northerly bank of Columbia River in lot 12, sec. 26, T. 37 N., R. 37 E., Willamette meridian, a dis-tance of 26.71 miles from the international boundary line, and a dietanee of 9.57 miles from the point of beginning above named. 2. From a point on the international boundary line, which point is 1,340 feet east from the center of Kettle River, to a point on the east line of see. 36, T. 39 N., R. 33 E., a distance of 14.53 miles. 3. From the point last named to a point in unsurveyed land designated aa station "Zero," which point is 3,300 feet south and 4,436 feet west from the southwest cor-ner of sec. 31, T. 37 N., R. 33 E., Willamette meridian, a distance of 16.73 miles. The routes described in paragraphs 2 and 3 parallel and cross, and in some places are coincident with, the approved line of the Republic and Kettle River Railway Company from the town of Republic north-erly to the international boundary line. The latter company has filed in this office a pxotest against the approval of the map of definite loca- 859341-8 |