The indicator., 1897-02-27
BIG FOREST RESERVES
THIRTEEN TRACTS SET ASIDE
Over Twenty One Million Acres Affected
President Cieveiand's Method OF Ceis
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sary of the birth of George Washing
ton by issuing thirteen executive or
ders farreaching in their effect. op
the recommendation of Secretary Fran
els and forestry commission OF tht
National Academy of Science lappoint
ed by Professor Wolcott Gibbs, the
president of the academy the president
signed and promulgated thirteen pro
clamations establishing as many add
tiorfal forest reservations. containing
an aggregate area of 2l .379. 400 acres.
Secretary Francis report to the pres
ident on the subject shows that the
commission visited most or all of the
forest reservations and other public
forests of the United States, dcyoting
three months of hard travel and care
full study, without compensation, TO the
work assigned them.
The amount of lands in each reserva'
tion already entered under the general
land laws is, the secretary points out
insignificant and the portions of area
described are exempted from the pro
clamation. Some of the sections are
within the limits of railroad grants,
and in such eases an executive procll'
nation only reserves the alternate see
tions. This is notably the case in the
Priest River forest reservation, which
the report of the commission charac
terizes as the most valuable body OF
timber in the interior of the continent
The secretary will submit TO Congress
n bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to indemnify the benciiciarics
in any of these railroad land grants in.
cluded within the limits of forest res
ervationS established by proclamation
of the president by patenting TO them
an equal quantity Of other portions OF
the public domain within specified lin
its.
The secrtary further shows that nm
der the law authorizing the president
to establish these reservations sixteen
such reservations have heretofore been
set aside, aggregating an area of IT,
JOr,oD0 acres.
Each of the thirteen prOclamtions are
similar in terms, except those portions
giving a description of the lands af-
fectcd by each. After description of
the lands set aside the pruclamaiions
except from their force and effect all
lands which may have been. prior 20
the date hereof. embraced in any legal
entry and covered by any lawful filing
duly Of record in the proper United
States land office, or oupon which any
valid settlement has been made pursu.
ant to law, and the statutory period
within which 10 make entry or filing
of record has not expired: and all min.
ing claims duly located and held ac.
cording TO the laws Of the United States
and rules and regulations not in con
fiict Herewith.
provided, That this exception shall
not continue to apply to any particular
tract OF land unless the entry man,
settler or claimant continues to com
ply with the law under which the en-
try filing, settlement or location was
made.
Warning is hereby expressly given
to all persons not to enter or make set.
tlement upon the tract of land reserved
by this proclamation"
The location and area of the reserva.
tons are as follows:
No. 1.-The Black Hills reserve, EN-.
blaces the central portion of the Black
Hills of South Dakota and has an esti
mated area Of @7, $50 acres.
No. 2-The Big Horn reserve, is sit.
uated In Northern Central Wyoming
and embraces both slopes of the Big
Horn mountains. Its area Is lbs, ,OSO
acres.
No. 3-The Teton reserve lies adia-
cent to the Yellowstone National park
timber land reserve, being south there
of, and contains S29,ii0 acres.
No. LThc Flathead reserve. EN-.
braces both slopes of the main Rocky
Mountain range or continetal divide In
Northern Montana and extends from
near the line of the Great Northern
railway nortlward to the international
boundary. 1t contains an estimated
area of 1.3S2, 400 acres
No. 5-The Lewis and Clarke forest
reservation, embraces both slopes of
the continental divide in Montana and
extends from near the line of the Great
Northern railroad sOuthward nearly to
the forty-seventh degree of north lat-
tude, and has an estimated area of
9, ,i26, ,OS0 acres.
No. G-Thc Priest river forest reserve
occupies the basin Of Priest lake and
Priest river in the extreme northern
part of Idaho and in northeastern
and extends from point
Il few miles north of the line of the
Great Northern railroad. to the terri.
torial boundary. Its area is estimated
at 552.9Go acres in Idaho and % leo
acres in Washington. a toal of 645. 100
acres.
No. THE Bitter Root forest reserve
lies on both sides of the boundary be-
tween Montana and Idaho. The total
estimated area is 4.1iT.20O acres, of
which G9l 200 are in Montana and
3 3,45G,OOO in Idaho.
No. S-Thc Washington forest rescr
walton is located in the state of Wash
ington and extends from about the
| 10th degree of west longitude to neal,
ly the 122d degree and from the inter.
national boundary southward to n lit
tie below tile fortyrighth degree of
latitude. 1t contains an estimated area
of 3.5IO,2i7 acres.
No. 9-Thc Olympic forest reserve oc
cnpies the high and broken Olympic
in northwestern Washington
and contains an estimated area of
2,1SS.SOO acres. This proposed reserve
no doubt contains for its area the larp.
est and most valuable body of timber
belonging 10 the nation.
No. lO-The Mount Rainier forest re.
serve was originally established by ey.
ecutive order of February 20 1892 ne
the Pacific forest reserve" The nro.
clamation extends the reserve soutb.
""ih alois TWO slopes of the Cascade
mountains nearly TO the Columbia riy.
err, and changes the name from Pacific
10 the Mount Rainier forest reserve.
me proposed extension makes the to
Ihi area OF the Mount Rainier reserve
2,234 $50 acres.
No. 1.-THE Stanislaus forest reserve
extends north along the stones of tbo
Sierra Nevada mountains In California
and embraces an area of G91 200 acres
No. 1.-THE San .Iacinto forest ra'
serve embraces the San Jacinto NOM.
tains in southern California and lis son.
arated from the existing San Bernardi.
no forest reserve by the San Georgonio
pass. the estimated area is 737, oSo
acres.
No. 13-The IIintah forest reserve
embraces both slopes of the eastern
part of the Uintah mountain range II,