The oasis., 1906-12-15
Great Forest Reserve In cochise and
 Santa Cruz Counties.


 V. :. Land office at Phoenix a copy of proclamation by President Roosevelt, including a plat, set ting apart a great forest reserve, extending from the east side of the Huachuca Mountains in Cochise county, to the Maria Santisima del Carmen land grant in Santa Cruz county, which includes the entire Patagonia range of mountains, about eighteen miles eastward. It includes all of the Huachuca range Ot mountains except the Fort Hua- chuca military reservation, and ex- tends from the Babacomari land grant in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties to the Mexican border; also talking in all the land west Of the Babacomari land grant to the northern foot hills of the Pat agonia mountains. The western boundary comes within a few miles of being on the same long. itude as Nogales, though on the southern border it is about AS miles distant, as it joins the east side of the Maria Santisima del Carmen land grant. The San Ra- fael land grant, 30 miles wide, and A miles long, is excluded. This great forest reserve is 126 miles north and south, by 249 miles east and west. Following is the pro clamatiOn:
 HUACHUCA FOREST REsERyE-ARlzoNA By the President of the United States of America-A Proclamation
 WHEREAS, the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, which are herein after indicated, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart said lands as public reservation.
 And, whereas, it is provided by sec tion twcnty-foIr of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, An act to re- peal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes, That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve in any state or territory having public lands bearing forest, ln any part of the public lands WhOlly or in part covered with timber or undergroWth, whether of commercial vaiue or not, as public reservations, and the President shall. by public proclama- ti0D, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof :" Now, thereof, |, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of Amer H.a, by virtue of the power invested in me by section tWenty-foGr of the afore satd act of Congress, do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as public re- servation, for the use and benefit of the people all the tracts of land, in the Ter Tlt0ry of Arisona, shown as the Hua- chGea forest reserve on the diagram forming part hereof.
 This proclamation will not take effect upon any lands withdrawn or reserved, at this date, from settlement, entry, or other appropriation, for any purpose other than forest uses, or which may be covered by any prior valid claim, so long as the withdrawal reservation, or claim exists.
 Warning is hereby given to all per sons not to make settlements upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.
 In witness whereof, 1 have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
 Done in the City of Washington this 9th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the Unitad States the one hundred and thirty-first.
 SEAL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 By the President RoBT BACON,
 Acting Secretary of State
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