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Show 110 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AI'FAIHS. allel to that of the Korthern Pacific Railroad Company, which was notified to submit objections, if it had any to make, to the approval of the maps of the North Const Railway Company. On July 9 the O5ce was advised that the Northern Pacific Company had no objec-t, ions to enter. The maps are held pending the receipt of a report from the Geological Sllrvey as to whether or not the construction of a railroad on the line shown will interfere with any plans of the Reclamation Service. ' Piewe, Rapid City and Northwestern-This line is operated in connection with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and is being extended westward from Fort Pierre, N. Dak. Maps have been approved to it for rights pf way 'thru Sioux Indian allot-ments west of Fort Pierre, and damagcs have been assessed and paid in the sum of $2,993.80. ~ - Pacific Railway.-Authority was granted on October 31, 1905, for a survey across the Puyallup knd Mucklesboot reservations in Wash-ington to the Pacific Railway Company, which was incorporated for the purpose of constructing a railroad to he operated in connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pad Railroad. The company, by amended and supplemental articles of incorporation accepted on February 3, 1906, changed its name to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company of Washington, and under its changed name it submitted for approval maps of definite location for a line thru Indian school lands on the Puyallup Reservation, which were approved on -4pril 5, 1906. The superintendent in charge of the Puyallup Agency has been instructed relative to the sppraisement of damages. Portland and Seattle.-Permission was granted on November 29, 1905, to survey and locate a line of railroad on the north side of the Columbia River in Washington, and maps of definite location were submitted on February 20, 1906, for approval. It appears that the line as surveyed crosses and recrosses the definitely located line of the Columbia Valley Railroad Company, maps of definite location of which were approved on January 18, 1901, and damages thereon assessed and paid. Under De.pa rtment instructions of March 7 the Columbia Valley Company was given an opportunity to object. This it did on April 15 and 16, and the Portland and Seattle Company was duly informed. As it has been suggested that a location might be agreed on mutually satisfactory to the two companies, the matter is still kept open. S i w City and 7l'estem.-This corporation was organized for the purpose of constructing a line thru the Omaha and W'inebago res-ervations, to be operated, in connection with the Great Northern Railway line. The maps of definite location showed that it paral-lelled, crost, and recrost the approved line of the Sioux City,. Homer |
