Proclamation 3307—Excluding Certain Lands From and Adding Certain Lands to the Colorado National Monument

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to exclude from the Colorado National Monument, in Colorado, certain lands which are not necessary for the proper care, management, and protection of the objects of scientific interest situated on the lands within the monument; and

Whereas it appears that it would also be in the public interest to add to such monument certain adjoining public lands and lands donated to the United States which are needed for administrative purposes and for the proper care, management, and protection of the objects of scientific interest situated on lands now within the monument:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim as follows:

The following-described lands in the State of Colorado are hereby excluded from the Colorado National Monument:

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 11 5., R. 101 W.,

sec. 27, E 1/2 SE 1/4.

UTE MERIDIAN

T. 1 N., R. 2 W.,

sec. 33, SW 1/4 NW 1/4, NW 1/4 SE 1/4 and that portion of the N 1/2 SW 1/4 lying north and east of a diagonal line extending from the northwest corner of said N 1/2 SW 1/4, S. 53°49' E., 2,240 feet to a point on the south line of said N 1/2 SW 1/4.

The areas described aggregate approximately 211 acres.

The lands hereby excluded from the monument shall not be subject to application, location, settlement, entry, or other forms of appropriation under the public-land laws or disposal under other laws until further order of an authorized officer of the Department of the Interior.

Subject to valid existing rights, the following-described lands in the State of Colorado are hereby added to and reserved as parts of the Colorado National Monument and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to that monument:

SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 11 S., R. 102 W.,

sec. 36, SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4, NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SW 1/4.

UTE MERIDIAN

T. 1 N., R. 2 W.,

sec. 32, N 1/2 NW 1/4 NE1/4, N 1/2 S 1/2 NW 1/4 NE 1/4, N 1/2 NE 1/4 NW 1/4, N 1/2 S 1/2 NE 1/4 NW 1/4.

T. 1 S., R. 1 W.,

sec. 30, S 1/2 S 1/2 SE 1/4 (unsurveyed).

The areas described aggregate approximately 120 acres.

The Executive order of January 27, 1913, creating Power Site Reserve No. 335, is hereby revoked to the extent that it affects any of the above-described lands added to the monument.

As affected by the exclusions and additions made by this proclamation, the boundaries of the Colorado National Monument are as follows:

Beginning at the southwest corner of sec. 31, T. 11 S., R. 101 W. of the sixth principal meridian;

thence westerly one-half mile to the south 1/4 corner of sec. 36, T. 11 S., R. 102 W., sixth principal meridian;

thence northerly three-eighths mile to the southeast corner of the NE 3/4 NE 1/4 SW 1/4 of the said sec. 36;

thence westerly one-eighth mile to the southwest corner of the said NE 1/4 NE SW 1/4;

thence northerly one-fourth mile to the northwest corner of the SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 of the said sec. 36;

thence easterly one-eighth mile to the northeast corner of the said SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4;

thence northerly approximately three and three-eighths miles to the north % corner of sec. 13, T. 11 S., R. 102 W., sixth principal meridian (on the south boundary of sec. 31, T. 1 N., R. 2 W., Ute meridian);

thence westerly approximately three-fourths mile to the southwest corner of sec. 31, T. 1 N., R. 2 W., Ute meridian;

thence northerly 1 mile to the northwest corner of the said sec. 31;

thence easterly one and three-fourths miles to the northeast corner of the NW 1/4 NE 1/4 sec. 32;

thence southerly one-fourth mile to the southeast corner of the said NW 1/4 NE1/4;

thence easterly one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of the SE 1/4 NE 1/4 of the said sec. 32;

thence southerly one-fourth mile to the southeast corner of the said SE 1/4 NE 1/4;

thence S. 53°49' E. 2, 240 feet to a point on the north line of the S 1/2 SW 1/4 of sec. 33;

thence easterly approximately 3,472 feet to the northeast corner of the SE 1/4 SE 1/4 of the said sec. 33;

thence southerly one-fourth mile to the southeast corner of the said sec. 33 (on the north boundary of sec. 17, T. 11 S., R. 101 W., sixth principal meridian);

thence westerly 455 feet to a point;

thence S. 23°04' W., 791 feet to a point;

thence S. 38°16' E., 1,250 feet, more or less, to a point on the east boundary of the SW 1/4 NE 1/4 sec. 17, T. 11 S., R. 101 W., sixth principal meridian;

thence S. 32°17' E. 887.6 feet to a point 495 feet easterly from the northwest corner of the NE 1/4 SE 1/4 of the said sec. 17;

thence S. 31°52' E., 1,556.2 feet to the southeast corner of the said NE 1/4 SE 1/4

thence S. 44°55' E., 1,853 feet to the southeast corner of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec. 16;

thence S. 44°58' E., 1,853 feet to the southeast corner of the NE 1/4 NW 1/4 sec. 21;

thence S. 45°02' E., 1,877.3 feet to the southeast corner of the SW 1/4 NE 1/4 of the said sec. 21;

thence S. 26°27' E., 2,864.8 feet to the southeast corner of the said sec. 21;

thence S. 44°06' E., 1,922.5 feet to the southeast corner of the NW 1/4 NW 1/4 sec. 27;

thence S. 44°47' E., 1,912.6 feet to the center of said sec. 27;

thence easterly one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of the NW 1/4 SE 1/4 of the said sec. 27;

thence southerly one-half mile to the southeast corner of the SW 1/4 SE 1/4 of the said sec. 27;

thence easterly one-quarter mile to the northeast corner of sec. 34;

thence southerly one-half mile to the west 1/4 corner of sec. 35;

thence easterly one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of the NW 1/4 SW 1/4 of said sec. 35;

thence southerly approximately one-half mile to a point on the township line dividing Tps. 11 and 12 S., R. 101 W., sixth principal meridian, said point being the northwest corner of lot 7 in sec. 2, T. 12 S., R. 101 W., sixth principal meridian;

thence easterly approximately one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of said lot 7 in said sec. 2;

thence southerly approximately 2,650 feet to the southeast corner of lot 9 in said sec. 2;

thence easterly approximately one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of lot 10 in said sec. 2 (on the west boundary of sec. 30, T. 1 S., R. 1 W., Ute meridian);

thence southerly approximately 2,422 feet to the southwest corner of sec. 30, T. 1 S., R. 1 W., Ute meridian;

thence easterly one-half mile to the southwest corner of the SE 1/4 of the said sec. 30;

thence northerly one-eighth mile to the northwest corner of the S 1/2 S 1/2 SE 1/4 of the said sec. 30;

thence easterly one-half mile to the northeast corner of the said S 1/2 S 1/2 SE 1/4;

thence southerly five-eighths mile to the east 1/4 corner of sec. 31;

thence easterly one-fourth mile to the northeast corner of the NW 1/4 SW1/4 sec. 32;

thence southerly one-half mile to the southeast corner of the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of the said sec. 32 (on the north boundary of sec. 18, T. 12 S., R. 100 W., sixth principal meridian);

thence westerly approximately 760 feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of sec. 13, T. 12 S., R. 101 W., sixth principal meridian;

thence southerly approximately 1 mile to the southeast corner of the said sec. 13;

thence westerly approximately one and three-fourths miles to the southwest corner of sec. 14;

thence northerly 1 mile to the northwest corner of the said sec. 14;

thence westerly 3 miles to the southwest corner of sec. 8;

thence northerly 1 mile to the northwest corner of the said sec. 8;

thence westerly 1 mile to the southwest corner of sec. 6;

thence northerly 1 mile to the point of beginning.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

Proclamation No. 1126 of May 24, 1911, establishing the Colorado National Monument, as revised by Proclamation No. 2037 of March 3, 1933, is amended accordingly.

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

DONE at the City of Washington this seventh day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fourth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State