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5. What other suggestions have you to offer? 
“Will you kindly have sent to us, one of the maps which, 
as a separate folder, accompanies the report upon the Olympic 
Forest Reserve? This map I desire to return to you with the 
proposed boundaries of the reserve indicated upon it. 
“Tam sending you, under separate cover, a panoramic photo- 
graph, which conveys a very good idea of the general char- 
acter of the country proposed to be set apart as a reserve. The 
endorsement upon the back of this photograph is self-explana- 
tory. 
The photograph referred to was the excellent picture of 
the range made by Asahel Curtis, who was actively engaged 
with Mr. Wright in this enterprise. When Congressman 
Humphrey received that letter and the accompanying phioto- 
eraph he laid both before President Roosevelt, who at once 
turned to the law for National Monuments for authority, and 
under date of 2 March, 1909, issued the following proclama- 
tion: 
“WHEREAS, The slopes of Mount Olympus and the ad- 
jacent summits of the Olympie Mountains, in the State of 
Washington, within the Olympie National Forest, embrace cer- 
tain objects of unusual scientific interest, including numerous 
glaciers, and the region which from time immemorial has 
formed the summer range and breeding grounds of the Olympic 
Elk (Cervus Roosevelti), a species peculiar to these mountains 
and rapidly decreasing in numbers; 
“Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the 
United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested 
by section two of the Act of Congress, approved June eighth, 
nineteen hundred and six, entitled, “An Act for the preserva- 
tion of American antiquities,’ do proclaim that there are here- 
by reserved from all forms of appropriation under the puble 
land laws, subject to all prior valid adverse claims, and set 
apart as a National Monument, all the tracts of land, in the 
counties of Jefferson, Clallam, Mason and Chehalis, in the State 
of Washington, shown as the Mount Olympus National Monu- 
ment on the diagram forming a part hereof, and more partic- 
ularly located and deseribed as follows, to-wit: 
“The reservation made by this proclamation is not intended 
to prevent the use of the lands for forest purposes under the 
