lly 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 State of Oregon within 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, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 of the aforesaid act of
Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is 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 State of Oregon and within the boundaries particularly
described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner of section twenty-seven (27), township
thirty-nine (39) south, range one (1) east, Willamette meridian; thence
westerly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section line to the northwest
corner of section twenty-five (25), township thirty-nine (39) south,
range one (1) west; thence southerly along the section line to the
southwest corner of section thirty-six (36), said township and range;
thence westerly along the ninth (9th) standard parallel south to the
northwest corner of section one (1), township forty (40) south, range
one (1) west; thence southerly along the section line to the southwest
corner of section thirteen (13), said township and range; thence
easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed section line to the point for
the southeast corner of section fourteen (14), township forty (40)
south, range one (1) east; thence northerly along the surveyed and
unsurveyed section line to the northeast corner of section thirty-five
(35), township thirty-nine (39) south, range one (1) east; thence
westerly to the northwest corner of said section thirty-five (35);
thence northerly to the northeast corner of section twenty-seven (27),
said township and range, the place of beginning.
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
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