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Show THE SUMMITQF pKE-s PAK. Tl1" Iaa"nm BPla... Will r.rmit WaShinoTOS. Oot. 10. -Secretary 3ob haa repik.lt, a let: ec from the comimaionar of the general land tfic ?f TZt a p'iat fiied fey th Maaitou aniPke'Pealtr;iilway comoaay aa-derthe aa-derthe riat q act of M;trch, 3, 18. ). which Hho .vs a sIectioa of ia purposes at the summit of Pike's Pc-alt. lUe cnmrninmoner'a letter refer to the fact of the approval bjr the department de-partment on March 10th laat, of a plat ih.e.1 by the company and embracing a tract of ttve acre at the aame point selected se-lected for station purposed. The commissioner's com-missioner's letter alao directs attention to the fact that on Annat iOth last the department lieclined to approve a piat pied by the aame company and cover- I m.? a selection of two acres,, on the ground that it wa4 not deemed wise to sanction the o.'cuoancv by a private pri-vate corporation of the summit of thi prominent Deaic to toe exclusion of t:ie public. pub-lic. The secretary av he !oes not winsiuent mcirabent upon him to supplement sup-plement his views as expressed in tr.e letter of Anitnst as jrrouuils for de-cliamy de-cliamy to approve this piat. It i.i returned re-turned approved, conpLt with the direction di-rection that Mr. VTeir. the custodian of the reservation at Pike" peak, be instructed in-structed to notify the representative of the company that any encroachment by them beyond the tract of acres already secured to it will not be tolerated by tii department. |