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Show 96 REPORT OF TBE COM?dI88IONER, OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 1901, were held for several months to allow the other company an opportunity to file the requiredshowing, and when they were approved March 11,1902, Mr. Pitman requested that the approval be reopened, but the request was refused April 28. Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient Railway Company.-July 22, 1901, there were approved maps of definite location of a line through the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, as authorized Jauuaiy 4, 1901, under the act of March 2, 1899. July 1, 1902, map of definite location of the line through Custer and Washita counties, Okla., was , approved. A further map of definite location through Blaine and Dewey counties, Okla., showed that that line of survey paralleled the approved line of the Blackwell, Enid, and Southwestern Railroad Company, and July 30 the company was asked to show that the public interests would he promoted by the construction of such parallel line. August 19,1902, the vice-president of the company filed an affidavit that the proposed road was under actual construction in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico; that about 60 miles were graded in Oklahoma, and that the laying of track was about to he commenced in Mexico, on the Gulf of California, and that the line when completed would be the shortest line from the center of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. Upon this showing the map war approved August 27,1902. Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company.-This line is operated as part of the system of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and extends 25.04 miles, from near Erin Springs to Pauls Valley, Chickasaw Nation, as shown by man of definite loca-tion approved March 20,1901, nuder the act of March 2,1899. There were completed, by grading, 24.2 miles on March 1, 1902. As men-tioned in the last report, referees were appointed to determine the dam-ages to the five individuals with whom amicable settlement could not he effected. Five drafts, aggregating $315.55, were submitted by the company to cover their award, and the schedule of payments was approved March 26,1902. Lehigh Traction Company.-July 11, 1902, this company applied for permission under the act of March 2,1899, to locate a road, to he oper-ated by electric power, between Atoka and Coalgate, Choctaw Nation. The company was informed July 17 of the repeal of that act in so far as the same applied to the Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and July 23, at the request of the company, its papers were returned. Xissonri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company.-The main line was constructed through the Indian Territory under the act of July 25, 1866 (14 Stats., 236), which granted lands in Kansas to aid in the con-struction of the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad, of which it is the successor. It is the line, extend~nge ast and west, authorized in the treaties of 1866 between the United States and the Choctaw, Chicka-saw, and Creek Indians, |