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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISf+IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. lhl and Southern ~aiiroad Company, antl approval of the maps was' withheld pending an adjustment of the complications. The Sioux City and Western Railroad Company hally purchased the rights acquired by the Sioux City, Homer and Southern, and on July 18, 1905, the Department approved the maps of definite location. Per-. mission was granted to begin construction before the determination of the damages, on payment by the company of double the amount of damages assessed against the Sioux City, Homer and Southern Railroad Company for its l i e . A check for $16,000 was accordingly ' sent to the Office on August 7,1905, and construction proceeded. The damages as finally appraised amounted to $28,387.50, and the com-pany submitted an additional draft for $12,387.50 to cover the full amount, which was accepted on November 7. Spokane 1ntemtionaZ.-Maps of definite location showing a line of road thru Indian allotments near Kootenai Lake, in northern Idaho, were approved on September 6,1905. Damages were assessed in favor of the individual Indian allottees in the sum of $447.40, and on October 24 the United States Indian agent in charge of the Flat-head Agency in Montana was directed to collect the amount due from the railroad company and pay the individual allottees. Sp0ka.y and British 0oZumbia.-This company succeeded to the rights of the Republic and Kettle' River Railway Company; which had constructed a line now in operation from Republic, in what was for-merly the north half of the Colville Reservation, to the Canadian houndary. On March 30,1905, authority was granted fora continua-tion of the line thru the south half of .the Colville Reservation, and thence across the Spokane Reservation to a terminus at Spokane, Wash. Maps of definite location were approved on October 17. .The line follows the valley of the San Poil River thru the south half of the reservation, crossing the holumbia River at the mouth of the San Poil, and enters the Spokane Reservation at a point on the south bank of the Columbia River. The United States Indian agent in charge of the Colville Agency is now appraising damages for the right of way. When these maps were submitted another map was filed, showing a branch line from a point near the confluence of the Spokane and Columbia rivers across the Spokane' River, thence following the easterly hank of the Columbia Rive* to "Sand Bar Landing," the terminus of the line of the Big Bend Transit Company, whose maps of definite location had been approved on March 18, 1905. The company was advised that consideration of its branch line would be withheld until its main line had been constructed. The crossing of this line by the surveys of the Belcher Mountain Railway Company has already been referred to. Spokaw and Big Bend.-This corporation was organized to con-tinue the promotion of the plaris of the Spokane Power and Trans-. |