East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-27
FOREST RESERVES ARE NOW
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

The president has attached his sig
nature to the following act and the
department of agriculture has issued
the following circular;
"An act providing for the transfer
Of forest reserves from the depart
ment Of the interior to the depart
ment OF agriculture.
BE it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the Unit
ed States of American in congress as
sembled, That the secretary of the de-
partment of agriculture shall, from
and after the passage of this act, eN-
ecute or cause to be executed all laws
affecting lands heretofore or here
after reserved under the provisions of
section "a of the act entitled An act
TO repeal the timber culture laws. and
for other purposes approved March
3, 1891, and acts supplemental to and
amendatory thereof, after such lands
have been so reserved, excepting such
laws as affect the surveying, pros
pecting, locating, appropriating, en-
tering, relinquishing, reconveying,
certifying, or patenting of any such
lands.
Sec. .. That pulp wood or wood
pulp manufactured from timber in
the district of Alaska may be exported
therefrom.
Sec. 3. That forest supervisors
and rangers shall be selected, when
practicable, from qualified citizens of
the state or territories in which the
said reserves, respectively, are situat-
ed.
Sec. 4. That rights of way for the
construction and maintenance of
dams, reservoirs, water plants, ditch
es, fumes, pipes, tunnels and canals,
within and across the forest reserves
of the United States, are hereby
granted to citizens and corporations
of the United States for municipal or
mining purposes, and for the purposes
of the milling and reduction of ores,
during the period of their beneficial
use, under such rules and regulations
as may be prescribed by the secretary
of the interior and subject to the laws
of the state or territory in which said
reserves are respectively situated
Sec. .. That all money received
from the sale of any products or the
use of any land or resources of said
forest reserves shall be covered into
the treasury of the United States, and
for a period of five years from the
passage of this act shall constitute a
special fund available, until expended,
as the secretary of agriculture may
direct, for the protection, administra-
ton, improvement and extension of
federal forest reserves.
Approved February /, 1906"
Explanatory Letter.
By this act the administration of
the federal forest reserves is trans
ferred to the agricultural depart
ment. Its provisions will be carried
out through the forest service, under
your immediate supervision. You
have already tentatively negotiated
the transfer with the commissioner of
the general land office, whose powers
and duties thus transferred 1 assign
you. Until otherwise instructed, you
will submit to me for approval all
questions of organizations, sales, per-
mits and privileges, except such as are
entrusted by the present regulations
to field officers on the ground. All
officers of the forest reserve service
transferred will be subject to your in
structions and will report directly to
you. You will at once issue to them
the necessary notice to this effect.
On December II, 1904, the presi-
dent signed the following order:
I'm the exercise of the power vest
ed in the president by section 1883 OF