The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-07-06
IVES BURNEY TALKS.
Tells an Ardmoreite Reporter a Few
Things of Interest.

ne dppTdlSluS UOdIu 1OT lEP
Chickasaw nation have finished
their plat of Colbert and have sent
it on tracing linen to the secretary
of the interior for his approval.
During the time the copy is in
transit the board and employees
have gone to their respective homes
to spend the Fourth. Mr.. John
son is with his family in Troy,
Kan, and Mr.. Burney is here.
Each will return to Colbert the lat
ter part of this week.
Mr.. Burney, when approached
last evening on the question OF
plating and appraising, said that
the board did not have much to say.
Our material has come" ne re-
marked, and we have made a
plat of the town of Co oert and
have sent that plat to the secretary
of the interior for his approval or
disapproval, and ar now awaiting
its return. You understand our
work is entirely new, we have no
precedents. whatever, to guide us,
and so we are saying nothing and
saving wood until we have estab-
lished as nearly definite plan of
operation as is possible for US
to establish. The demands of each
individual town will perhaps cause
a variance in some particular from
the rule governing in the plating
of the preceding towns. For in
stancD resident lots in Colbert are
made 50x140 feet, and business
+ 25x100 feet, but this does not
p Iecessarily mean that lots will be
made this uniform size throughout
the nation, but it simply means
that we could better adapt this size
of lots to the survey of the town. "
You want to know what will be
done with residence lots that cover
half a block?
Why, that's very easily solved.
You see, we would as soon sell
half a block to one man as to half
a dozen men, and where the for
mer owner has improvements on
the lots he will be given the pref
erence. He can buy one lot at a
price equal to 30 per cent of its ap-
praised value, and the remainder
at 62L per cent ="
What will be the effect pf the
protest filed by the railroad com
pany at Colbert?
Well, the portion of the townsite
claimed by the company does not
show on the plat, but can be added
to 1t very easily, and we expect to
be allowed to do this for the claim
of the railroad is not considered a
just one. You see / and every
other citizen of this nation has an
interest in every foot of land in
the two nations, and no part of
this land can be decided away by
an individual member of the tribe
This contract tween j A. Smith
Jim Colbert ana the railroad com
pany was made 2S years ago, and
within that period of time a vast
number of changes have been
brought about in this country"
With regard to the protest
made by the citizens | have moth
ing to say. We have treated those
people with all the courtesy posi-
BILE, and have protected their indi-
vldual interests as far as possible
in the performance of our duties.
In these towns that have been built
with regard to no survey whatever
it is not likely that all the citizens
will be pleased, for we must have
some system to our work and we
are guided by the section lines in
the survey of this country. The
people of Colbert, to take them as
a whole, are pleased with our
work"
Why did the commission begin
work at Colbert?" was asked.
1t was like this. The boards
of the two nations wanted to adopt
uniform rules to govern in the
plating and appraising of the two