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Show CONMIB81ONER OF INDIAN AFFAIE8. 83 it submitted for approval a map of definite location, showing a line 10.215 miles in length, extending from a point of oonnection with the GilaVdley Globe and Northern Railway at San Carlos, westerly along the Gila River to $he reservation boundary. One copy of the map was transmitted to the Director of the United States Geological Survey April 18 for information as to whether or not the location of the line would interfere with the operations and plans of the reclamation service. It developed that the location as made was below the contour fixed by the Cleological Survey as the limit of its plans of operation. The railway company's engineers have not yet agreed with the engineers of the Geological Survey on a contour line satisfactory to both, and final action with respect to the map has been deferred until such time as the matter can be adjusted. Peach Springs and Colorado River Railway.-June 25,1904, this com-pany was authorized to survey and locate a line of railroad through a portion of the Walapai Reservation in Arizona. The line of route as described in the application begins at or near the town of Peach Springs, in Mohave County, intersecting the line of railroad of the Santa Fe Paciiic Itailroad Company, and extends northerly in that county about 20 miles, terminating at a point near the junction of Diamond Creek and the Colorado River. Western Pacific Railway.-June 25,1904, the application for permis-sion to survey and locate a line of railroad through the Pyramid Lake Reservation was approved. The proposed line as stated in the articles of incorporation of the company, filed with its application, is to extend from San Francisco, Cal., to Salt Lake City, Utah, an esti-mated length of 810 miles. The capital stock is placed at $50,000,000. Wyoming State Railway.-Permission was granted May 4,1904, to make survey of a line of railroad through a portion of the Shoshoni Reservation in Wyoming. The capital stock of the company is placed at $10,000,000. The line as authorized extends nerth and south, and also east and west through the reservation. Omaha Northern Railway.-By act approved April 26,1904, the time for the completion of this company's line of railroad through the Omaha and Winnebago reservations in Nebraska, is extended for a periodof three years from the 26th day of March, 1904. Railroads in Oklahoma and Indian Territory.-The consolidation of several of the railroad companies operating in the Indian Territory is authorized by acts of Congress, as follows: By act approved March 11, 1904 (33 Stats, 66), the Kiowa; Chicka-aha and Fort Smith Railroad is authorized to @elilt s properties to the Eastern Oklahoma Railroad, and the latter company is authorized to lease its properties and to sell the Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railroad (in the event it purebases the same), to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company. |