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Show REPORT OF THE OO~ ISSIONEBO F INDIAN AFFAIRS. 67 tem, was authorized May 26, 1903, to make a preliminary survey through the White Mountain Reservation, in Arizona. Red Lake Transportation.-This company, as shown by papers on file in this Office, became the owner of the logging road constructed by the Hilaire Lumber Company through a portion of the Red Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, and secured the approval to it February 18, 1903, under the act of March 2, 1899, of a map showing the definite location of a line 5.98 miles in length for use for a permanent transportation line. Damages were assessed and paid in the sum of $381.50. Rio Qrande Southwestern Railroad.-Maps of definite location show-ing a line 21.09 miles in length, extending through the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, in New Mexico, were approved May 18,1903. Damages were awarded in the sum of 828.79. This company's line of road forms a part of the system of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Hanitoba Railway.-May 23, 1903, permis-sion was granted this company to survey and locate a line of road through the Red Lake Reservation, in Minnesota. July 8,1903, there were approvedmaps of definite location showing a line 36.65 miles in length, extending north and south through the White Earth Reservation, in Minnesota. Maps showing station grounds at Chelsea and Milk River, in the Fort Peck Reservatiou, Mont., were approved April 28, 1903. Williams and Cataract Canyon Railroad.-April 21, 1903, this com-pany was authorized to survey and locate a line of railroad through the Havmuipai Reservation, in Arizona. Railroads in Oklahoma and Indian Territory.-In the last annual report reference was made to the act of February 28,1902, entitled "An act to grant the right of way through the Oklahoma Territory and the Indian Territory to the Enid and Anadarko Railway Company, and for other purposes," as having important bearing upon the subject of railroad construction in those two Territories. The operation of the law has been watched with as close attention as possible in face of the fact that the act, asconstrued by Department decision of December 26,1902, entirely removes the interests affected from the jurisdiction of this Bureau. The radical departure from the former practice of the Department with respect to the operations of railroads through the Indian lands in the Territories named, incident to the enactment of this law, was not appreciated in its fullness at the date of the last annual report. The bill (H. R. 3104) which afterwards became the act of February 28, 1902, had passed both branches of Congress and had been presented to the President before this O5ce knew of its existence. The engrossed |
