Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 34-36), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the boundaries of the Crook National Forest be modified by excluding therefrom the following described lands in the State of Arizona:
Gila and Salt River Meridian
In T. 1 S., R. 12 E., Lot 10 Sec. 35;
In T. 2 S., R. 12 E., NE¼ NW¼, NW¼ SE¼ NW¼, E½ NE¼ SW¼ NW¼ Sec. 3, except those parts of such legal subdivisions within forest exchange surveys Nos. 648, 650 and 651, and H.E. Surveys Nos. 436, 437, 439, and the tract covered by the grant to the Magma Arizona Railroad Company for station grounds.
Subject to valid existing claims, the lands excluded from the national forest by this order are hereby reserved for townsite purposes under Section 2380 United States Revised Statutes, to be disposed of under the provisions of the townsite laws.
HERBERT HOOVER
The White House,
April 9, 1929.
Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5092—Modifying Boundaries of Crook National Forest, Arizona Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/360806