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The administration of the forest reserves was placed 

 in charge of Commissioner Binger Hermann, of the 

 General Land Office, and continued in his charge until 

 1903, when Commissioner Richards succeeded him. 

 The surveys and examinations of the reserves were, 

 by the act, placed under the Geological Survey. 



The survey of the reserves was begun in 1897 and 

 has continued to the present time. The results, briefly 

 stated, are as follows: 



Five reserves have been completely mapped — the 

 Black Hills, South Dakota- Wyoming ; Bighorn, Wyo- 

 ming; Teton, Wyoming (now a part of the Yellowstone 

 Reserve); Santa Rita and Prescott, Arizona; and 

 work has been commenced in twenty-nine other 

 reserves. 



The boundary lines of the Black Hills, Bighorn, 

 Aquarius, Logan, and Pocatello reserves have been 

 completely surveyed and marked with iron posts; also 

 parts of the Lewis and Clarke, Washington, Mount 

 Ranier, Madison and Payson, and Black Mesa and 

 Mount Graham reserves have been surveyed, com- 

 prising 1,328 miles of boundary line. In connection 

 with this, there have been surveyed 1,976 miles of 

 standard and subdivision lines of various kinds, for 

 which notes and plats have been filed in the General 

 Land Office, as required by law. 



Reconnaissance maps have been made of the entire 

 Lewis and Clarke, Bitter Root, and Priest River re- 

 serves, comprising an area of over 12,000 square miles. 



The total area mapped for publication as regular 

 atlas sheets, on scales of one or two miles to the inch, 

 in and adjacent to forest reserves, is 48,963 square 

 miles (not including 12,072 square miles of reconnais- 

 sance maps), in connection with which 12,679 miles 

 of levels were run and 2,983 permanent bench marks 



