An Act to modify the boundaries of the Santa Fe, Gila, Cibola, and Carson National Forests in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes
PL 92-465 (S.447), enacted 10/06/1972

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Public Law 92-465 
A N A C T 
October 6, 1972 
[S. 447] 
To modify the boundaries of the Santa Fe, Gila, Cibola, and Carson Xational 
Forests in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the exterior ^f^^^^ 
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boundaries of the Santa Fe, Gila, Cibola, and Carson Xational Forests, son°Nationai ^^' 
in New Mexico, respectively, are modified to include the following Forests, N. Mex. 
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SANTA FE XATIONAL FOREST, NEW MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN 
1. The Canon de San Diego Grant, situated in townships 16,17,18, 
and 19 north, ranges 1, 2, and 3 east, and known in the Office of the 
United States Surveyor General as Report numbered 36, confirmed by 
f'ongress of the L'nited States of America on the 21st day of June 1861, 
and patented by the United States of America in accordance with said 
Act of Confirmation of the 21st day of October 1881. 
2. Township 18 noith, range 1 east. 
Section 6, lots 1 through 8 inclusive. 
Township 18 north, ranee 1 west. 
Section 1, lots 1 through 4, inclusive, west half northeast quarter, 
and east half northwest quarter. 
3. Township 17 north, range 2 east. 
Section 25, lot 1. 
Section 36, lots 1,2, and 4. 
Township 17 north, range 3 east. 
Section 19, lots 1 and 2 in accordance witl) G.L.O. plat approved 
April 28,1919. 
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Section 30, lots 1 through 4, inclusive. 
Section 31, lots 1 through 3, inclusive and lots 5 to 9, inclusive. 
Section 32, lots 1 through 4, inclusive. 
Township 16 north, range 3 east. 
Sections 5, 6,7, and 8. 
4. Township 15 north, range 12 east. 
Section 29, lots 3, 4, and 5, southwest quarter .southeast quarter. 
Section 33, lots 1,2, 3, and 4, southwest fjuarter southwest quarter. 
5. Township 15 north, range 12 east. 
Section 12, east half southwest quarter, .sontheast quarter. 
Township 15 north, range 13 east. 
Section 5, all. 
Section 6, all. 
Section 7, all. 
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Section 8, all. 
8ection9, west half southwest quarter. 
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Section 16, west half west half. 
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Section 17, east half east half. 
Section 20, east half northeast quarter. 
Section 21, west half west half. 
.Section 28, west half. 
Section 32, all. 
Section 33, all. 
6. A tract or parcel of land situated in the «'ounties of Sandoval and 
Santa Fe in the State of Xew Mexico, known as the Caja del Rio Grant, 
as shown m)on the plat of said grant on file in tlie United States Public 
Survey Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which plat was approved by 
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the L^nited States Surveyor General of New Mexico on Xovember 23, 
1894, and approA-ed by the Court of Private Land Claims, through its 
Deputy Clerk Irene L. Chavez, on April 15, 1895, and representing a 
survey of said grant as made by Sherrard Coleman, United States 
Deputy Surveyor, May 8 to 18, 1894, under Contract Numbered 280, 
dated March 26, 1894, which tract of land is intended to include all 
that portion of the said grant extending westward to the Kio Grande, 
but exclusive of the conflict with the Cochiti Pueblo Grant and which 
was more particularly described in a deed from the General American 
Life Insurance Company to the United States of America dated No-
vember 13, 1935, and recorded in Sandoval County in book 4, DE, 
pages 503-515, on December 20,1935. 
7. A tract or parcel of land situated in the counties of Sandoval and 
Santa Fe in the State of New Mexico, known as the La Majada Grant, 
as shown upon the plat of the grant on file in the United States Public 
Survey Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which plat was approved by 
the United States Surveyor General of New Mexico on January 23, 
1896, and approved by the Court of Private Land Claims, through its 
Deputy Clerk Irene L. Chavez, on March 25,1896, and representing a 
survey of said Grant as made by Albert F. Easley, United States 
Deputy Survej^or, June 28 through July 7,1895, under Contract Num-
bered 292, April 29,1895, which tract of land is intended to include all 
of that portion of the said grant exclusive of the conflicts with the 
Cochiti Pueblo Grant, the Mesita de Juana Lopez Grant, and the Caja 
del Rio Grant, and a portion of the said La Majada Grant lying south 
of the Corps of Engineers' Road Numbered 90, more particularly 
described as a line beginning at a point on the south boundary of the 
Cochiti Pueblo Grant which lies south 89 degrees 54 minutes west 18.35 
chains from the half mile corner; thence south 44 degrees 15 minutes 
west 125.65 chains; thence south 51 degrees 50 minutes east 14.59 chains; 
thence south 43 degrees 50 minutes east 101.91 chains; thence south 49 
degrees 35 minutes east 24.35 chains to a point on the south boundary of 
the La Majada Grant which lies north 73 degrees 48 minutes west 18.18 
chains from the 4i^-mile corner on the south boundary of the said 
grant. 
8. Township 14 north range 13 east. 
Section 35, north half. 
9. Township 16 north range 14 east. 
Section 5, all. 
Section 8, all. 
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Section 27, lot 5, east half southeast quarter. ' " 
Section 34, east half east half. 
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N A T I O N A L FOREST, N E W MEXICO PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN 
A tract or parcel of land situated in Grant County, New Mexico, in 
township 17 south, ranges 12 and 13 west, as shown in the office of 
the United States Surveyor General on Supplemental Plat of Retrace-
ments and Resurveys, approved by the Surveyor General on July 7, 
1908, excepting that portion of the said military reservation lying 
south of a line described as follows: Beginning at a point which is the 
intersection of the north right-of-way line for State Highway 180 
with the east boundary of the reservation; thence southwesterly along 
tlie highway right-of-way to the south line of section 25; thence 
westerly along the section line between sections 25 and 36 to a point 
lying 735 feet west of the quarter corner between said sections; thence 
north 47 degrees 03 minutes east 585 feet; thence north 18 degrees 18 
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minutes west 2,380 feet; thence west 4,110.34 feet; thence south 01 
degree 43 minutes east 2,661.24 feet to the quarter corner between sec-
tions 26 and 35; thence westerly along the section line to the west 
boundary of the said military reservation. 
OARSON NATIONAL FOREST, N E W MEXICO PRINCIPAL 
MERIDIAN 
1. Township 25 north, range 13 east. 
Section 28, lots 4 and 12. 
CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST, N E W MEXICO PRINCIPAL 
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1. Township 10 north, range 11 west. 
Sections 1 through 3, inclusive. 
Sections 10 through 15, inclusive. 
Township 11 north, range 11 w^est. 
Sections 1 through 3, inclusive. 
Sections 10 through 15, inclusive. 
Sections 22 through 27, inclusive. 
Sections 34 through 36, inclusive. 
Township 12 north, range 11 west. 
Sections 31 through 36, inclusive. 
2. A tract of land in township 14 north range 16 west which was 
originally a portion of the Fort Wingate Military Keservation as 
established by Executive order of February 18,1870, more particularly 
described as: Beginning at a point which is the quarter corner com-
mon to section 2 of township 14 north range 16 west and section 35, 
township 15 north range 16 west; thence southerly along the Cibola 
Xational Forest boundary approximately 3 miles to the quarter corner 
common to sections 14 and 23 in unsurveyed township 14 north range 
16 west; thence westerly along the Cibola National Forest boundary 
approximately 414 miles to a point on the east boundary of the Fort 
Wingate Ordnance Depot, designated 361 + 00 south and 20-1-00 east 
Wingate Ordnance Depot coordinating system; thence northerly 
along the Wingate Ordnance Depot east fence approximately 10,285 
feet to a point designated 258 +15 south and 20 + 00 east Wingate Depot 
coordinating system; thence in a random northeasterly direction along 
the Wingate Depot fence system approximately 8,500 feet to a brass 
cap set in concrete which is the northwest corner of the Navajo Indian 
School tract; thence due south 6,293.84 feet to a brass cap set in con-
crete which is the southwest corner of the school tract; thence due 
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east 7,728.15 feet to a 3-inch pipe which is the southeast corner of the 
school tract; thence due north 6,716.00 feet to a brass cap set in con-
crete which is the northeast corner of the school tract; thence easterly 
approximately 1% miles to the point of beginning, containing 6,810 
acres, more or less. 
SEC. 2. The exterior boundaries of the Carson National Forest in 
New Mexico are modified to exclude section 16, township 24 north, 
range 11 east. New Mexico principal meridian. 
SEC. 3. Subject to valid existing rights, all lands owned by the United 
States in the areas described in section 1 of this Act are hereby added 
to the national forests as listed in that said section, and shall be admin-
istered in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable 
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SEC. 4. For the purposes of section 6 of the Act of September 3,1964 
(78 Stat. 903), the boundaries of the Santa Fe, Gila, Cibola, and Car- 
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son National Forests, as modified by section 1 of this Act, shall be 
treated as if they were the boundaries of those forests on January 1, 
1965. 
Approved October 6, 1972.