The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-06-10
LAND RESTORED TO ENTRY
President Eliminates $500 Acres from
National Forest in the State
of Washington

The president has signed proclama-
tons reducing three Of the national
forests in Washington by total of 49,
100 acres. From the Colville forest
43,666 acres are eliminated, from the
Kaniksu 1884 acres, and from the
Rainier 500 acres. 1t is expected
that Examinations from other forests will
be made soon.
These eliminations are the result Of
a careful field examination made on all
national forests by the u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture during the sum-
mer of 1909. The examination re-
suited in data as to the character Of
lands along the forest boundaries. The
object sought was to learn both where
lands within the boundaries should be
excluded from the forests and where
outside lands should, in the interest of
their best use and in accordance with
the principles laid down by law for the
creation OF national forests, be brought
within the boundaries. Since, how
ever, no increase in the national forest
area of Washington can be made by
the president, the proclamationS con-
Germ only the areas which have been
found suitable for elimination.
On the Colville forest the land now
excluded is either almost wholly alien
ated or open grass or agricultural land.
By far the greater part Of it is patented.
The eliminations consist of great
many small areas varying from one-half
section to several sections, and scat
tered along the boundary from the
Okanogan to the Columbia river. I'm
less reserved for Indian allotments the
unappropriated land will be restored to
entry and settlement after having been
advertised in the local papers by the
secretary of the interior.
The elimination from the Kaniksu
forest is all along or near the Pend
Oreille river. 1t consists of four sepa-
rate parcels of land in township 33 NJ,
range A E., and in townships SO, SO
and SO NJ, range w., w. M. The
reason for eliminating the greater por-
ton is the fact that large percentage
has passed out of government owner
ship, making administration of the re-
mainder difficult. These alterations
consist mostly of railroad lands and
patented timber and stone claims, with
a comparatively small area Of agricul-
tural land, of which part is being held
as squatter claims, part has been filed
upon under the old homestead law, and
part has been filed upon under the
Forest Homestead act of June IL,
1906. Approximately section of the
elimination, located at the junction of
Sullivan creek with the Pend Oreille
river, is covered by mining locations.
There remain within the Kaniksu
forest some areas Of land chiefly valua-
BILE for agricultural purposes. These
areas are for the most part made up OF
meadow lands in narrow strips along
the streams, so situated that their elm
ination is impracticable from an admin
istrative point of view. Agricultural
settlement and development of such
lands within the forest is encouraged,
and nearly six thousand acres has
already been listed under the Forest
homestead act of June II, 1906.
The Examinations from the Rainier
national forest are composed entirely of
mountainous timbered land so largely
alienated that it is considered inadvisa-
BILE to retain it in the forest. The un-
appropriated portion of the area elm
mated by this proclamation will be re-
stored to settlement and entry after
having been advertised in the local pa
pers by the secretary of the interior.
Some fabrics sold as wool have cotton
so carefully concealed that detection is
difficult. A good test is to unravel two
threads, one crosswise and one on the
length of the goods. The wooden thread
will break in an irregular fringy manner,
while cotton will break clean. Some
times the wool is twisted around the
cotton, making thread which to the
touch seems all wool, but the breaking
of the thread will reveal the cotton cen