SENATE. ( DOCTTMEWT 



\ No. 189. 



SUEVBYS OE FOEEST EBSEEVES. 



LETTER 



FROM 



THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, 



TRANSMITTING, 



IN RESPONSE TO RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF FEBRUARY 

 28, 1898, LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL 

 SURVEY TRANSMITTING REPORT OF SURVEYS MADE UNDER 

 HIS DIRECTION, AND ACCOMPANYING PAPERS IN RELATION TO 

 THE FOREST RESERVES, SINCE JUNE 4. 1897. 



March 15, 1898.— Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered to be 



printed. 



Department of the Interior. 



Washington, March 15, 1898. 



Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of resolution of 

 the Senate dal^ed February 28, 1898, as follows: 



Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to furnish for the use of 

 the Senate all information relating to the surveys of public lands since June 4, 1897, 

 tjii«i hnvcbeea desigaated as forest reserves under Executive proclamation, together 

 ■with the amount of land surveyed in each of said reservations under authority of the 

 act of Congress approved ,Tune 4, 1897, entitled "An act making appropriations for 

 sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending J une 30, 1898, and 

 for other purposes." 



In response thereto I transmit herewith a letter from the Director of 

 the Geological Survey, dated the 14th instant, transmitting a report of 

 the surveys made under his direction; also a report made by Special 

 Forestry Agent Giflbrd Pinchot, and a special report upon sheep graz- 

 ing in the Cascade forest reserve of Oregon, prepared by Mr. F. V. Oo- 

 ville, botanist of the Department of Agriculture. These reports contain 

 a summary of all the information that hgjs been oBtained in irplat^on to 

 the forest reserves since June 4, 1897. ' > £!,«**» 



Very respectfully, -t'' Id \\ '\;,{. 



C. N. Bliss, Secretary. 



The President op the Senate. 



