58 The Mountaineer 
proclamations establishing the Olympic National Forest, but 
the two reservations shall both be: effective on the land with- 
drawn, but the National Monument hereby established shall be 
the dominant reservation and any use of the land which inter- 
feres with its preservation or protection as a National Mon- 
ument is hereby forbidden. Warning is hereby given to all 
unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, remove, or de- 
stroy any feature of this National Monument, or to locate or 
settle upon any of the lands reserved by this proclamation. 
“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 second day of March, 
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, 
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred 
and thirty-third. 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” 
This met with general applause throughout the Northwest 
and the Mountaineers felt secure in the fruits of their labors 
in that direction until there arose complaints that prospectors 
and miners were hindered in their efforts to secure the min- 
eral wealth supposed to exist within the Monument. This ob- 
jection was promptly met in a characteristic way by the Moun- 
taineers. 
When Walter L. Fisher, Secretary of the Interior, visited 
the Northwest he sought information about the Olympie Na- 
tional Monument as he did about other matters within his jur- 
isdiction. Asahel Curtis and Georee E. Wright were asked to 
serve as a committee of the Mountaineers to present the facts 
to Secretary Fisher. The elub wished to advocate every rea- 
sonable wish of the miners. A conference was held by repre- 
sentatives of the various commercial bodies and organizations 
interested and it was amicably agreed to work together to pro- 
cure the following general objects: To change the Olympie 
National Monument into the Olympie National Park; to have 
the United States Geological Survey make a careful survey of 
the park as to its mineral resources; to permit mining and 
prospecting under proper regulations within the park; to ad- 
just the boundaries so as to inelude the summits of the moun- 
tains and as little as possible of lands useful for agriculture 
or forestry. 
