The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-23
GOOD DAYS WORK.
HOW CLEVELAND CELEBRATED
WASHINGToN'S BIRTHDAY.
He Establishes Thirteen Additional
Forest Reserves, One of Them
Being in Utah.

Washington, Feb. 22.-President
Cleveland celebrated the 165th anniver-
sary of the birth of the first president
of the republic by issuing Is executive
| proclamations and establishing IS ad-
| ditional forest reservations. contain
ing an aggregate area of 21,379. $40
acres. The proclamations except lands
which may have been, prior to its
date, embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly re-
corded in the proper United States land
office, or upon which any valid settle
ment has been made pursuant to law
and the statutory period within which
to make entry or filing for record has
not expired; and all mining claims
duly located and held according to the
laws of the United States and rules
and regulations not in conflict there
with. The proclamations, excepting in
the description ot lands affected in
each, recite substantially that where
as the public lands, within the certain
specified limits noted in the proclama-
tons are in part covered with timber
and it appears that the public good
would be promoted by setting apart
and reserving said lands as a public
reservation, that they are reserved from
entry or settlement and sea apart as
a public reservation. The location and
area of the reservations are given as
follows:
No. 1.-The Black Hills reservation,
embracing the central portion of the
Black Hills of South Dakota, and has
estimated area of So, $50 acres.
No. 2.-The Big Horn reserve. stu
ated in northern central Wyoming and
embracing both slopes of the Big Horn
mountains. Its area is 1,19S,0S0 acres.
No. 3.-The Teton reserve. adjacent
to the Yellowstone National park, the
timber land reserve being south there
an estimated area of 967, $50 acres.
No. 4-The Flathead reserve, on both
slopes of the main Rocky mountain
range or continental divide, in north
ern Montana, and extending from near
the line of the Great Northern railroad
northward to the international bound
airy. 1t contains an estimated area Of
1882. 400 acres.
No. 5.-The Lewis and Clarke forest
reserve. embracing both slopes of the
continental divide in Montana and ex-
tending from near the line of the Great
Northern railroad partly to the 45th
degree of the north latitude, and has
an estimated area of 2.426.OSO acres.
No. 6.-The Priest Forest reserve,
which occupies the basin of Priest
lake and Priest river, in the extreme
northern part of Idaho and in north
western Washington and extends from
a point a few miles north of the line
of the Great Northern railroad to the |
boundary. Its area is
estimated at 552, $50 acres in Idaho. and |
80, $50 acres in Washington, a total of |
Gas. 100. In this reservation the western /
white pine grows to its largest size. 1t |
is within the limits of the Northern |
Pacific railroad grant and consequent |
ly the government owns only the al |
ternate sections within the limits of |
said grant.
No. THE Bitter Root forest reserve |
lies on both sides Of the boundary be-
tween Montana and Idaho. The total
estimated area is 4,417,200 acres, of
which $4,000 are in Montana and
8, 49, 600 in Idaho.
No. S.-The Washington forest re-
serve, located in the state of Washing |
ton and extends from about the 120th |
degree of west longitude TO nearly the
l22nd degree and from the interna-
tional boundary southwark to a little
below the 4Sth degree of latitude 1t
an estimated area of 1914 900
acres The region extends over both
slopes of the Cascade mountains and
IS exceedingly broken and entirely COW
cred with forests. This reserve is one
Of the most rugged. difficult, least
known and unsettled parts of the
United States.
No. 9.-The Olympic forest reserve,
the high and broken noun
tain region in northwest Washington
and contains an estimated area of
,.18S.S00 acres.
No. 10.-The Mount Rainier Forest re-
serve, originally established by eXecu-
i've order Feb 20. 1898. as the Pacific
,orest reserve" The proclamation ex-
ENDS the reserve southwark along the
-wo slopes of the Cascade mountains
nearly to the Columbia river and
changes the name of the Pacific to the
Mount Rainier forest reserve and
makes the total area 2 234. $50 acres.
No. 1.-THE Stanislaus forest reserve.
extending north along the slope of the
Sierra Nevada mountains in California
md embracing So, 200 acres.
No. 12.-The San Jacinto forest re-
erve, embraced the San Jacinto noun
aims in Southern California and is
separated from the existing San Ber-
lardino forest reserve by the San Cor
;onio pass. Estimated area 737,2SC
lcres.
No 13.-The Uintah forest reserv.
both slopes of the eastern
art of the Uintah mountain range II.
lorthern Utah and the eastern slope
My of the western part of this range,
he southern slope being part of the
Jintah Indian reservation
The report of the commission ends
s follows: 1.-The total area of these
thirteen forest reserves is 21,379,S40
cres."