Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
WILL ADD MANY ACRES.
THE PRIEST RIVER RESERVE TO
BE MADE MUCH LONGER,

Libby News w. H. Odom, formerly
supervisor of the Priest river forest re.
serve and who. was suspended some time
ago by an order of James Glendennin,
superintendent of the Bitter Root and
Priest river reserves, has been reinstated
as supervisor of the Priest river reserve,
but his jurisdiction is limited to that por-
ton of it which lies in the state of WASH
ingtOn. r. s. Gragaw is the supervisor
of that portion lying in Idaho. This dis
position of Mr.. Odom has settled what
at one time threatened to be a very seri-
u rupture between the eastern ad the
western wings of the republican party,
for Mr.. Odom owes his appointment to
Senator Pritchard Of North Carolina,
while Mr.. Bragaw. who succeeded him,
was appointed at the request Of Senator
Shoup of Idaho.
In connection with the Priest river re-
serve it is known to be the desire of Bin
ger Herman, commissioner of the general
land office, to quite extensively extend it's
lines, and for this purpose the various
supervisors and others interested have
been furnished with maps on which are
indicated the territory which he desires
to add. Approximately this new terri
tory will add $50, 1000 acres to the reserve.
about one half of which will be taken
in Idaho and the other half in Washing
ton. That portion in the latter state en-
braces all hat section not already in
Guided in the reserve lying between the
Pend d'Oreille river and the Idaho state
line n extending to the international
line. That portion which he desires to
take from Idaho bounded on the south
by the 18th standard parallel and a line
drawn through the center Of township
81, range 3 west of Boise merchant:
thence from the intersection of that line
to the present boundary line of the re-
serve; thence following said boundary
line to the Canadian line; thence to the
kootenai: thence along that stream to a
point near Bonner's Ferry; thence to
the Boise meridian; thence along said
meridian to where it intersects the
twelfth standard parallel. 1t is also
made the duty of the supervisors to con-
suit the people living in the above de-
scribed lands and n out their views
about the proposition. This they are now
doing and will soon make their reports.
There is also another proposition in
connection with this reserve and that is
to throw open to settlement about six
townships lying north Of the town Of
Priest river and which are now in the
reserve. These townships embrace the
celebrated white pine belt of north Idaho
and to obtain this timber it is the desire
OF those interested to have it thrown on
of the reserve.
Should the commissioners of the gem
eral land office make. the change as is
proposed it would work an i~ncalculable
harm to a large section of country and
deprive many settlers Of their homes,
for along the southern and eastern linas
of the land which it is proposed to take
from Idaho there is at present a large
number Of settlers who have lived there
for years. either farming or getting out
timber. It would taxi in nearly all the
fine white pine n cedar timber lands
along Pack river and it's tributaries and
would deprive many farmers of their