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Show &y 24, 1901, the commission recommended that certain lands in the Creek Nation be segregated for town-site purposes at stations on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway known as Oktaha and Sum-mit, and May 27,1901, it recommended that lands in the Creek Nation be reserved from auotment for town-site purposes for the stations known as Mazie, Rosedale, Blackstone, Ross, Halls, Leliaetta, Gibson Station, Inola, Kelleyville, Taneha, and Red Fork. Some of these stations are located on the St. Louis and Sun B\ancisco H&ilroad, while others are on the Arkansas Valley Rsilroad and the Missouri, Kanstts and Texas. In these recommendations the o5ce concurred. The Department afterwards instructed the commission to report specifically why, in its opinion, lands should be segregated at the points named, and subsequently refused to segregate land at the stations of Oktaha and Summit. So far as the ofice is advised, it has not yet acted upon the commission's recommendntion as to the other stations named. TIMBER h D STONE. The act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stats., 660), authorized the Secretary of the Interior to prescribe rules for the procurement of timber and stone for domestic and industrial purposes from lands of the Five Civilized Tribes. It provides that the full value of the timber shall be paid, and prescribes as a penalty a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both, for the cut-ting, sale, or removal of any timber contrary to the provisions of the act or the regulations to be prescribed thereunder. This act is pub-lished in full in my last annual report, as are also the regulations . prescribed under its provisions. During the year the following contracts for the procurement of timber and stone have been approved: December 11, 1900, a contract in favor of Osgood &Johnson, St. Elmo, Ill., for the procurement of 200,000 tiea from the Creek and Chickasaw lands. May 7, 1901, a contract with William N. Jones, of Fayetteville, Ark., for the procurement of 450,000 ties from lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. May 20, 1901, a contract in favor of Bernard Corrigan, of Kansas City, Mo., for the procurement of 8,000 cubic yards of sandstone and 100,000 linear feet of timber for piling, and 500,000 feet B. M. of timber for bridges from lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. July 20, 1901, a contract with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-way Company for the purchase of about 200,000 cubic yards of stone ballast, to he taken from section 1, township 1 north, range 12 east. No contracts for the procurement of timber or stone from any of the lands of the Five Civiliied Tribes except those above mentioned have been entered into. April 27,1901, the regulations weremodi6ed |