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Show REPORT OF THE OO~I8SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. 111 Since the date of the last annual report the following companies and individuals have been authorized to construct and maintain telephone lines and exchanges under section 3 of the act of March 3,1901. Arkansas Valley Telephone Company.-October 26,1901, the Depart-ment approved maps of location showing a line extending westerly from Holdenville, Creek Nation, to the Oklahoma-Indian Territory line. March 3,1902, the company was authorized to locate and main-nain a telephone exchange in the t-owns of Roff and Ada, Chickasaw Nation. April 30, maps of location, Sapulpa to Mounds, and May 30, maps showing the located line from Wetnmka to Mill Creek, were approved, with a branch line to Sapulpa. June 24, affidavits were filed showing the completion on March 8 of 26.95 miles of line from Holdenville to the Oklahoma-IndianTerritory line. Afton Telephone, Heat, Light, and Power Company.-April 18,1902, this company was authorized to establish and maintain a telephone exchange in Afton, Cherokee Nation. Acuff, E. 6.-May 7, 1902, the Department approved maps filed by H. C. Acuff and authorized the location of lines extending from Wagoner to Choska, via Tallahassee and Clarkesville, 28 miles, and from Wagoner to Coweta, 17 miles. Black, R. W., and E. F. Sparrow.-November 25, 1901, there waa approved map of definite location showing a line extending from a point on the Oklahoma-Indian Territory line near Elgin, Kans., to Pawhuska, Osage Reservation. Damages were assessed by the agent for the Osage Agency in the sum of $53 on an amended line between the points named, as approved July 8, 1902. Claremore Telephone Company.-September 11, 1901, there were approved maps of location of a line extending from Wagoner, Ind. T., northerly along the right of way of the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad to the south line of Kansas, and July 7,1902, maps of a line extending from Collin~ville to Claremore. An affidavit shows the completion, on April 12,1902, of 79* miles of the line from Wagoner to the Kansas State line. Cherokee Nation Telephone Company.-September 13, 1901, there were approved maps of location showing a line from a point on the Kansas-Indian Territory line, south of Caney, Kans., to Collinsville, 50 miles, which line was completed December 21, 1901. Choctaw Telephone Company.-Maps of location showing surveyed line long the right of way of the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway Company, from Durant to Hugo, were approved July 7, 1902. Colorado River Telephone Company.-February 13,1902, maps were approved showing location of a line through the Ynma Reservation a distance of about 6 miles. Damages in.the sum of $29 were assessed and paid. |
