Columbia & Red Mountain RR

THE RIGHT-OF-WAY. – For the Columbia & Red Mountain Railroad. – Can Go Through Reserve. – President Cleveland Has Signed the Bill – Provisions of the Measure.

            The president has approved the bill granting a right of way to the Columbia & Red Mountain Railroad Company through the Colville reservation, Washington.  The measure contains these provisions.

            That there be, and is hereby granted to the Columbia & Red Mountain Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Washington, a right of way to the extent of 100 feet on each side of the center line of said railway across the Colville Indian reservation, in the state of Washington, commencing at a point at or near the Little Dalles on the Columbia river, in Stevens county, in said state, and running thence in a northerly direction by the most feasible route to the international boundary line between the United States and British Columbia, together with all the rights granted to railroads by the act of congress entitled “An act granting to railroads a right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March 3, 1875; and for the purpose of this grant and the construction of said railway all the provisions of said act are hereby declared to be applicable thereto to the same extent as though the lands in said reservation were open to settlement and sale.

            There is also hereby granted to said company the same right to locate, appropriate, acquire and use for all the purposes for which said company is organized so much of the waters of any streams in said reservation, and not navigable, as may be necessary for such purposes, and the right of way for all necessary ditches, flumes and pipes to be connected therewith, to the same extent and as fully as said company might or could acquire the same under the laws of the United States, if the lands in said reservation were open to settlement and sale, together with the right to locate and select a millsite not to exceed 10 acres, upon which to erect shops or other works; and upon the erection of such shops or other works a patent of such millsite may be acquired in the same manner as millsites on other public lands.