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Show BEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN APFAIFS. 79 land adjacent, and $20,400 for the sale of tracts Nos. 4, 5, 20, and 21 not needed for school purposes whose sale was authorized by the act of June 21, 1906. (34 Stat. L., 377.) On July 1, 1907, the superintendent in 6arge of the Puyallup School was authorized to accept a bid of $30,000 for tract No. 2 in the Indian addition, although it was below the appraised value. Tract No. 22, containing 1.29 acres and appraised at $7,740, was also offered for sale, but no report has yet been received as to its disposal. RAILR4MDS AOROBS INDIAN LANDB. Railroad construction across Indian reservations is now particu-larly noticeable in the Northwest, where the industrial development has made necessary both the extension of all railroad systems and the building of new roads. Several important lines have been completed or are in course of construction through Indian lands. All grants of rights of way to railroad companies through Indian reservations, except in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, are made according to the act of March 2,1899 (30 Stat. L., 990). RAILROADS OUTSIDE OF OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. There follows a summary of railroad construction affecting Indian lands outside of Oklahoma and Indian Territory for the year ended June 30,1907 : Ahzona and Cdifonzia.-This company is engaged in the wnstruc-tion of a railroad through the Colorado River Reservation in Ari-zona. Its right of way was approved May 12, 1906, but during the last year the company has filed a map showing amended location of its line covering a distance of 16.964 miles, which was approved on November 24,1906. Damages for right of way in the sum of $205.63 have been collected. The company applied for additional station grounds, alleging that under the act of March 2, 1899, it can not obtain a large enough area to meet its requirements, and it has requested permission in the nature of a license to occupy 27.57 acres until legislation can be had under which it can secure title to the land. Belcher MoulztaiMhe maps of this company showing the looa-tion of its line through the south half of the Colville Reservation in Washington were filed in this O5ce in 1906. It appeared that the proposed line was not only parallel, but was on, and crossed and re-crossed, the right of way approved to the Spokane and British Col-umbia Railway Company. That company was allowed sixty days in which to show cause why a right of way should not be approved to the Belcher Mountain Railway Company, and the latter was allowed sixty days in which to show that the public interest required the I construction of its road. Both companies fled responses, but as it did not appear that there was a public necessity for the construction of |
