Executive Order 5757—Transfer of Lands from the Madison and the Deerlodge to the Beaverhead National Forest, Montana

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands now parts of the Madison National Forest as defined by proclamation of September 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 1763-1764), or of the Deerlodge National Forest as defined by proclamation of June 28, 1910 (36 Stat. 2711), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Beaverhead National Forest:

From the Madison National Forest

All parts thereof lying south and west of a line beginning at a point, on the east line of unsurveyed sec. 10, T. 3 S., R. 5 W., where the hydrographic divide between Bear Gulch and Goodrich Gulch intersects said line; thence in an easterly direction along said divide to its intersection with the crest of the Tobacco Hoot Mountains at Apa Mountain; thence in a southeasterly direction along the crest of said mountains passing over Granite Peak to a point where the hydrographic divide between East Fork Granite Creek on the west and Fletcher Creek on the east intersects the south line of sec. 8, T. 5 S., R. 2 W., all Montana meridian; also those parts lying in Tps. 12, 13, 14, and 15 S., R. 2 E.; Tps. 11, 12, and 13 S., R. 1 E.; Tps. 9, 10, 11, and 12 S., R. 1 W.; Tps. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 S., R. 2 W.; Tps. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 S., R. 3 W.; Tps. 9, 10, 11, and 12 S., R. 4 W.; T. 12 S., R. 5 W., all Montana meridian.

From the Deerlodge National Forest

All parts thereof lying south and west of the following-described line:

Beginning at the quarter-section corner on the east line of sec. 31, T. 3 N., R. 12 W.; thence to the northeast corner of said section; thence west 2½ miles to the southeast corner of the SW. ¼ SE. ¼ sec. 26, T. 3 N., R. 13 W.; thence north 2½ miles to the northeast corner of the SW. ¼ NE. ¼ sec. 14, said township; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth mile to the north quarter corner of said sec. 14; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-half mile to the northeast corner of the NW. ¼ SW. ¼ sec. 11, said township; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-half mile to the northeast corner sec. 10, said township; thence west one-half mile; thence north one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of the SE. ¼ SW. ¼ sec. 3, said township; thence west one-half mile; thence north three- fourths mile to the northeast corner sec. 4, said township; thence west along the north township line and continuing westerly along the north township line of >unsurveyed T. 3 N., R. 14 W., all Montana meridian, to intersection with the Continental Divide; also all national-forest land lying south and west of the following-described line:

Beginning at the northwest corner of the SW. ¼ NW. ¼ sec. 7, T. 2 N., R. 11 W.; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south onefourth mile to the southwest corner of the SE. ¼ SE. ¼ said sec. 7; thence east three-fourths mile to the north quarter corner of sec. 17, said township; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-half mile to the southeast corner said sec. 17; thence east approximately 1 mile to intersection with the present boundary of the Beaverbead National Forest; above descriptions all refer to the Montana meridian.

The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Beaverhead National Forest are more clearly shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof. It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
December 16, 1931.