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Show RAILROADS ACROSS INDIAN LANDS. The proposed opening to settlement of the ceded lands on Indian reservations, particularly in the northwest part of the United States, has stimulated railroad construction in that region, and several irn-portant lines, forming links in the great railroad systems, have been constructed or projected through Indian lands. RAILROAD8 OUTSIDE OF OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. Following is a summary of railroad operations under the act of. March 2, 1899 (30 Stat. L., 990), as far as Indian lands outside of Oklahoma and Indian Territory are affected, for the year ended .Tune 30, 1906 : Sriona Eastern.-This company was authorized March 17, 1904, to locate a line across a part of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, and on April 14, 1904, submitted for departmental approval maps showing the definite location of the proposed road. Copies of the maps were transmitted to the United States Geological Survey on April 18, 1904, for reportas to whether the line would interfere with any plans of the Reclamation Service. The Survey answered on June 3,1904, that the located line would interfere with the construction of a proposed dam and reservoir on theSan Carlos Reservation, and thd company, thru its Washington legal representative, was informed accordingly. The matter was taken up by the company and the engineer in charge of the Government work, but. no satisfactory adjustment of the differences was reached. On March 23, 1906, the Director of the Geological Survey advised the Office that the Depart-ment had directed that the proposed dam and reservoir sites at San Carlos be abandoned. The maps were therefore forwarded on April 9 for the Department's approval, and were approved on April 13. . Arizona and California.-Maps showing the definite location of a proposed line across the Colorado River Reservation in Arizona and California were approved on May 12, 1906, the Geological Survey having agreed withthe enginee~of the company on a location for the crossing of the Colorado River which would not interfere with the plans of the Reclamation Service. Belcher Mountain.-This company applied on November 24, 1905, thrn the United States Indian agent at Colville Agency, in Washing-ton, for the approval of blueprint copies of maps showing the definite location of an extension of its line now operated in connection- with the development of mining property in what formerly was the north half of the Colville Reservation. The extension will cross Indian allotn~ents; and as the application was not accompanied by proofs of service on the allottees, and the maps were not drawn on tracing linen, |