Proclamation 529—Establishment of the Salt Lake Forest Reserve, Utah

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 State of Utah, 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 public reservations;

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 public reservations all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Utah, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah; thence easterly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section fifteen (5), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly along the section lines to the north-east corner of Section eighteen (18), Township one (1) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the south-east corner of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20), said township; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-nine (29), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-one (31), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section three (3), Township two (2) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-west quarter of Section ten (10), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the south-west quarter of Section thirty-six (36), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section two (2), Township three (3) South, Range three (3) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the point for the north-east corner of Section eight (8), said township; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of said section; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), Township three (3) South, Range two (2) East; thence southerly to the point for the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-three (23), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section twenty (20), said township; thence northerly to the point for the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township; thence westerly to the point for the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twelve (12), Township three (3) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the north-east quarter of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township two (2) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18), said township, the place of beginning;

Also:

In Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East, the north-west quarter, and the north-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section one (1), the north-east quarter, the north-east quarter of the northwest quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the southeast quarter of Section twelve (12), the north-west quarter, the north half and south-east quarter of the north-east quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter, and the north-east quarter and south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), the north half and south-east quarter of the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the south half of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24);

In Township one (1) North, Range one (1) East, Section twelve (12), the south-east quarter, and the east half of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), the south half of the south-west quarter, the north-west quarter, and the east half of Section twenty-four (24), the south-west quarter and east half of Section twenty-six (26);

In Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East, the north-east quarter and the west half of Section four (4), the south-east quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section six (6), all Section seven (7), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the west half of Section eight (8), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), the north half of the north-west quarter, the south half of the south-west quarter, and the south half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), the west half and north-east quarter of the southwest quarter. the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and the north half of Section eighteen (18), the north-west quarter of Section nineteen (19);

In Township one (1) North, Range two (2) East, the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), all Sections six (6), eight (8), ten (10), and twelve (12), the north half and south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), all Section eighteen (18), the north half, the south-west quarter, and the west half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter, the west half and south-east quarter of the northwest quarter, and the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), the east half of Section twenty-four (24), all Section twenty-six (26), the south-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), the north half of the south-east quarter, the south-west quarter, and the north half of Section thirty (30), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township two (2) North, Range two (2) East, the south half of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township one (1) South, Range three (3) East, Section six (6), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter and the north half of Section eight (8), the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), the north half of Section thirty-three (33), the south-west quarter and the south half of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township one (1) North, Range three (3) East, Section six (6), the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), all Section eighteen (18), the west half of Section twenty (20), and all Section thirty (30).

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 reservations hereby established shall be known as The Salt Lake Forest Reserves.

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 26th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:

JOHN HAY,

Secretary of State.