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Proclamation 592—Establishment of the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado

August 25, 1905


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

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 Colorado, 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, 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 State of Colorado, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-two (82) West, Sixth (6th) Principal Meridian, Colorado; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section ten (10), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence easterly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-five (35), said township; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township three (3) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence easterly to the south-east corner of said township; thence southerly to the south-west corner of Township five (5) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the north-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range seventy-nine (79) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty (80) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of Township eight (8) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence southerly to the north-east corner of Township ten (10) South; Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the north-west corner of said township; thence southerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-east corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence westerly along the township line to the north-west corner of Township twelve (12) South, Range eighty-eight (88) West; thence northerly, allowing for the proper offset on the Second (2nd) Correction Line South, to the north-east corner of Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-nine (89) West; thence easterly to thenorth-east corner of Section two (2), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-six (26), said township; thence easterly to thenorth-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section four (4), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section ten (10), Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty (20) Township ten (10) South, Range eighty-four (84) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section four (4), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township nine (9) South, Range eighty-five (85) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section eleven (11), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-east corner of Section eight (8) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section Twenty-three (23), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section two (2), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six (36), Township seven (7) South, Range eighty-seven (87) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section one (1), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Township six (6) South, Range eighty-six (86) West; thence easterly along the First (1st) Correction Line South to the south-west corner of Section thirty-three (33), Township five (5) South, Range eighty-three (83) West; thence northerly to thenorth-west corner of Section twenty-one (21), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township five (5) South, Range eighty-one (81) West; thence southerly to the south-east corner of Section thirty-three (33), said township; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-six, said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section one (1), said township; 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) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section twenty-seven (27), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section nineteen (19), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township three (3) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence easterly to the south-west corner of Section fifteen (15), said township; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section three (3), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of Section thirty-two (32), Township two (2) South, Range eighty-two (82) West; thence northerly to the north-west corner of Section seventeen (17), said township, the place of beginning;

Also, all Township three (3) South, Range eighty-four (84) West; 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 Holy Cross 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 25th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.

Signature of Theodore Roosevelt

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:

FRANCIS B. LOOMIS,

Acting Secretary of State .

Theodore Roosevelt, Proclamation 592—Establishment of the Holy Cross Forest Reserve, Colorado Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206489

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