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Show 84 00MMI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. By act approved April 27,1904 (33 Stab., 314), the Ozark and Cher-okee Central Railroad Company and the Arkansas Valley and Western Fbilway Company are authorized to sell and convey to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad or to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The former may sell all that part of its railroad extending from Lafayette, Ark., to Okmulgee, Ind. T.; the latter may sell all of its railroad extending from Tulsa Junction, Ind. T., to Enid and Avard, Okla. By act approved April 21,1904, the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is authorized to sell to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Raii-road, and the latter company is authorized to purchase the railway of the former company, extending from Stevens, in the Cherokee Nation, Ind. T., to Guthrie, O h . ; and from Osage Junction, in the Osage Nation, Okla., to Wybark, in the Creek Nation, Ind. T.; and from Falls to Oklahoma City, Okla., and from Oklahoma City, Okla., to Lehigh, Choctaw Nation, Ind. T. The line from Okalhoma City to Lehigh was constructed under the name of the Texas and Oklahoma Railroad Company, as shown by maps of definite location filed in this Office under the act of February 28, 1902. By deed of conveyance filed for record in the Department of the Interior, the Midland Valley Railroad has purchased the line of rail-road and the franchise, in the Indian Territory, of the Mnskogee Southern Railway Company. This line of road, as shown by maps of definite location of both companies on file in this Office, extends through Indian Territory from a point on the eastern boundary thereof, in township 8 north, range 27 east, northwesterly to Muskogee; thence to Tulsa along the valley of the Arkansas River, and thence northerly through townships 20 and 21 north, range 12 east. The following table gives the rights of way and grounds for which maps have been filed under act of February 28,1902, during the fiscal year ended June 30,1904: TABLE18 .-Eailrwd mapfiled during year aded June 80, 1904. I Right of Additional w&y. 1 38nds. ;Shawnee .................................................... 39.70 Oklahoma ..................................................... b andivestein R. R.: PN..R.l'L% ............................................................... 1 I :" Perritory R. R. GO.: to Red Oak, Ind. T ..................................... M). 00 ............ 4 wesmrn Rwy.: nwt aection ................................................... 25.00 ............ i&C entr~al nd Southwestern R.R.: Ow&880.. ......................................................... 16.27 |
