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within the reservations, empowers them to build 

 wagon-roads to their holdings, enables them to 

 build schools and churches, and provides for the 

 exchange of such for allotments outside the reser- 

 vation Hmits. The state within which a reserva- 

 tion is located maintains its jurisdiction over all 

 persons within the boundaries of the reserve. 



Under the above enactment, the commissioner 

 of the General Land Office has formulated rules 

 and regulations for the forest reservations, and a 

 survey of the reserves is being made by the United 

 States Geological Survey, the appropriations for 

 such a survey having been continued from year 

 to year, and the date for the segregation of agri- 

 cultural lands and their return to the public domain 

 open for entry having been deferred. 



The appointment of forest superintendents, ran- 

 gers, etc., although not with technical knowledge, to 

 take charge of the reservations marks the beginning 

 of a settled policy of the United States Government 

 to take care of its long-neglected forest lands. 



Gradually the people of the Western states, who 

 were opposed to the reservation policy, believing 

 it an interference of their rights and an impedi- 

 ment to settlement, have learned to appreciate the 

 wisdom and the object of the reservations, espe- 

 cially in the irrigation districts. Annually new 

 areas are being reserved and the administrative 

 features developed. At present writing there are 

 set aside 58,850,000 acres in 56 reservations, in- 



