Proclamation 548—Establishment of the Wenaha Forest Reserve, Oregon and Washington

Whereas, it is provided by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes", "That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof";

And Whereas, the public lands in the States of Oregon and Washington, with the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there are hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a Public Reservation all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the States of Oregon and Washington, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-one (41) East, Willamette Meridian, Washington; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence easterly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the north-east corner of Section six (6), Township eight (8) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (II), Township seven (7) North, Range forty-four (44) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township seven (7) North, Range forty-three (43) East; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said township; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the State Line between the States of Washington and Oregon, to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township five (5) North, Range forty-two (42) East, Willamette Meridian, Oregon; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section seventeen (17) said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township four (4) North, Range forty-one (41) East; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section seven (7), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), Township three (3) North, Range forty (40) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section six (6), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township four (4) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section three (3), Township three (3) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence westerly to the north-east corner of Township two (2) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), Township one (1) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section five (5), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly along the Base Line to the north-east corner of Section five (5), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section five (5), Township two (2) South, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township one (1) South, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence northerly to the northwest comer of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty (30), said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offsets, to the north-west corner of Township three (3) North, Range thirty-seven (37) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly along the range line, allowing for the proper offset on the First (1st) Standard Parallel North, to the north-west corner of Section thirty (30), Township five (5) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offsets, to the north-west corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township six (6) North, Range thirty-eight (38) East; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly along the section lines, allowing for the proper offset on the State Line between the States of Oregon and Washington, to the north-west corner of Section ten (10), said township, in Washington; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said township; thence northerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township seven (7) North, Range thirty-nine (39) East; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section sixteen (16), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Township eight (8) North, Range forty (40) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence northerly to the northeast corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly along the Second (2nd) Standard Parallel North to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) North, Range forty (40) East; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township nine (9) North, Range forty-one (41) East, the place of beginning; such of the above-named corners as have not been established by the official surveys being intended to be located at the points where such corners would fall in projecting the surveys in the directions indicated without allowing for any irregularities which may occur in actually extending the surveys;

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wenaha Forest Reserve.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-ninth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:

FRANCIS B. LOOM IS,

Acting Secretary of State.