Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-03-08
JOINT RESOLUTION INTRO
DUCED BY SENATOR HELM

A joint resolution relating to the in
clusion of Iron Mountain, Harney Range
and Harney Peak in the Custer State
Park:
BE it resolved by the Senate of the
State Of South Dakota, the House oI
Representative concurring:
Whereas, at 1918 session of the legis-
lature Of this state there was passed
Chapter 224 Of the 1913 Session Laws
creating State Game Preserve" com
posed of all state owned lands located in
townships numbered three (3) and four
"a south in range numbered six (6J
east, and in the east two tiers of sections
in townships numbered three 90 and
four a. south in range numbered five
(5) east Of the Black Hills MeridienS.
Custer County, South Dakota; and
Whereas, the State Game aud Fish
Commission to the end that the State
Game Preserve should be game pre-
serve in fact as well as in name has at
considerable labor and expense in co
operation with the commissioner Of
School and Public Lands improved and
beautifed the grounds and placed within
the fence surrounding said preserve,
large numbers of buffalo, elk, antelope,
deer, beaver aud other game; and
Whereas, it is now proposed to pass
Senate Bill No. 81 introduced by the
Joint Committee on School and Public
Lands to convert the said State Game
Preserve into permanent State Park
to be known as the Custer State Park;
and
Whereas, the properties known as
Iron Mountain and the Harney
Range and Harney Peak are located in
the immediate proximity of the site Of
the said Custer State Park, and one Of
the objects sought to be obtained in the
creation of said park is to not only pre-
serve and protect and proCreate the
game, but to hand down to posterity the
natural grandeur and beauty of the ter.
ritory in which said park is located, and
to the end that the hand of the desecra-
tor may not be seen, and Iron Mountain
and the Harvey Range and Harvey Peak
may be preserved and protected in their
majestic grandeur and beauty.
Therefore, be it resolved by the legis-
lature OF the State of South Dakota, that
We do hereby solemnly memorialize the
President of the United States, and the
Secretary of Agriculture, and the Chief
| of the Forestry Division of the United
States government, and our Honorable
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, that appropriate steps be taken to
segregate from the public domain a por.
ton of the Harvey National Forest, and
to grant unto the State of South Dakota
to be included within the Custer State
Park, these properties known as the
Iron Mountain and the Harney Range
and the Harvey Peak to the end thai
under the close and immediate supervi
sion of the Custer State Park board, the
natural beauty and majestic grandeur oI
said properties may be preserved and
handed down to posterity; and
Be it further resolved, that to the END
aforesaid, and for the purpose OF segre
eating the said properties from the pub
| lie domain, that suitable laws be enacted
conferring upon the proper constituted
| federal authorities full and complete
power to grant and convey unto the
State of South Dakota, that portion o
the public domain including the Iron
Mountain and the Harney Range and
the Harvey Peak for State Park pur'
| poses.