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the honor to recommend that the inclosed draft of a proclamation, 

 which has been approved by the Forester, be signed by the President. 

 Very respectfully, 



J. H. FlMPLE, 



Acting Commissioner. 

 The Secretary of the Interior. 



Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office Fimple to Secretary Hitchcock. 



Washington, June 5, 1905. 



PROPOSED CASSIA FOREST RESERVE, IDAHO. 



Sir: Yonr letter to this office dated April 27, 1905, transmitted a 

 letter from the Secretary of Agriculture inclosing two maps of the 

 proposed Cassia Forest Reserve, Idaho, and report thereon by the 

 Bureau of Forestry. The Secretary of Agriculture, by his letter, 

 recommends the establishment of the reserve Avithin boundaries as 

 shown on the maps, provided such action is consistent with public 

 policy, and you direct that, if on examination the lands are found 

 to be public lands and no good reason to the contrary exists, a draft 

 of a proclamation to establish the reserve be prepared and transmitted 

 to the Department. 



According to an agreement with the Forester and Hon. AV. B. 

 Heyburn, United States Senator, action in this matter was suspended 

 for a period of thirty days in order that Senator Heyburn might 

 present his objections to the proposed reserve. 



The chief features of this proposed reserve are discussed as follows 

 m the report submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture : 



LOCATION AND AREA. 



The proposed Cassia Forest Reserve is situated in the southern part of Cassia 

 Count.v and embraces the rolling mountainous area known as the Shoshone 

 Mountains. The lands in question are located in a square block just north of 

 the Nevada line, in townships 13 to 16 south, ranges 17 to 21 west of the Boise 

 base line and meridian. The proposed reserve includes about 14 townships or 

 32.3,520 acres as planimetered from the camp. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



The general topography is low, rolling mountains, standing about 1.000 feet 

 above the surrounding flat country. Long, flat-to]iped ridges, separated by 

 fairly deep canyons, extend in a northerly and southerly direction from the 

 main divide, which runs northwesterly and southeasterly. The lands rise 

 abruptly from the plains on the east and gradually on the west, giving the area 

 the appearance of a small plateau which has been heavily eroded and formed 

 into the series of ridges. 



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INDUSTRIES. 



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The ranchmen in the vicinity of the proposed reserve are dependent upon it 

 for fuel, fencing, and house logs, and also, to a small extent, for dimension stuff. 

 which is cut at the mill on Trapper Creek. The settlers who are coming in 

 on the Twin Falls lands, like all homeseekers, have more time than money, 

 and have to depend on the country for fencing and fuel. The lands included 

 within the proposed reserve are their nearest timbered lands, and they are now 

 removing quantities of material from the area. 



