Chapter 257. Granting to the Denver, Cripple Creek and Southwestern Railroad Company a right of way for a railroad through the South Platte and Plum Creek forest reserves, in the State of Colorado
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CHAP. 257.— An Act Granting to the Denver, Cripple Creek and Southwestern Railroad Company a right of way for a railroad through the South Platte and Plum Creek forest reserves, in the State of Colorado.May 28, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Denver, Cripple Creek Denver, Cripple Creek and Southwestern Railroad Company granted right of way, South Platte and Plum Creek forest reserves, Colo.
Vol. 27, pp. 1029, 1044. and Southwestern Railroad Company, a corporation incorporated and organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Colorado, is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a railroad over and through the South Platte Forest Reserve and the Plum Creek Forest Reserve, in the State of Colorado, heretofore set apart and established as forest reservations by proclamations of the President, dated, respectively, December ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, said railroad to enter said Location. reservations at the junction of the North and South forks of the South Platte River, in section twenty-five, in township seven south, of range seventy west of the sixth principal meridian, and to run thence along the water course of the South Fork of the South Platte River to section three, in township thirteen south of range seventy-one west, and also to be constructed from section twenty-one, in township nine south of range seventy west, along the water courses of Horse Creek and Trout Creek, in the Plum Creek Forest Reserve, to section thirty-four, in township ten south of range sixty-nine west; said right of way to be Rights, privileges, etc.
Vol. 18, p. 482. granted subject to the rights, privileges, rules, and restrictions of an Act entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, said Act being hereby made applicable to the right of way hereby granted. The said company, however, shall not Timber cutting. cut timber upon said forest reservations outside of the limits of said right of way. Approved, May 28, 1896.