disposal of these lands by the grantee. A similar 
grant was made to the Coos Bay Wagon Road Co. 
for a much smaller area. The terms of both grants 
were violated and the Government brought suit 
against the companies in Oregon maintaining that 
the intent of the grants was being frustrated. The 
grant lands still unsold were declared forfeit and in 
1916 were revested in the Federal Government by 
an act of Congress that provided for their classifi- 
cation and disposal. Land classified as agricul- 
tural (all tracts having less than 300,000 board feet 
of saw timber per 40 acres, regardless of suitability 
for farming) were opened to homestead entry. A 
very large part of this land was strictly forest land, 
with no agricultural potentialities. The timber on 
lands classed as timberland was made subject to 
public sale upon application. After the timber was 
removed these lands were opened to homestead 
entry. In 1934 they were temporarily closed to 
entry, by Executive order. A small acreage of land 
valuable principally for water-power development 
has been withdrawn and placed under the jurisdic- 
tion of the Federal Power Commission. The large 
remaining acreage is administered by the Depart- 
ment of the Interior. Until recently, authority 
and funds for the proper protection and manage- 
ment of the lands were not provided. ‘Their check- 
erboard distribution was another obstacle to satis- 
factory management. In 1937 the Seventy-fifth 
Congress passed an act providing for sustained- 
yield management, under the jurisdiction of the 
Department of the Interior, of the portion of these 
lands classified as timberlands. The law provides 
for classifying the lands more suitable for agricul- 
tural use than for forestry purposes and restoring 
them to homestead entry. 
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The original act and subsequent legislation have 
provided for certain minimum payments to the 
Southern Pacific Railroad for its equities, to the 
counties in lieu of taxes, to the State for school 
purposes, and to the United States Reclamation 
Fund. Payments to the railway company, which 
were completed about 1927, and to the counties 
have exceeded receipts by millions of dollars. 
Other Federal Lands 
Other Federal lands include national parks, na- 
tional monuments, unappropriated public domain, 
military reservations, lighthouse reservations, and 
some other Federal lands of small extent. The 
total area of forest land in this ownership category 
is about 775,000 acres. The largest and most im- 
portant units are the Mount Olympus National 
Monument ® and Mount Rainier National Park, 
both administered by the National Park Service. 
Next in importance, probably, is the public do- 
main, which is scattered in small isolated parcels the 
length of the region. 
The total volume of saw timber on “other Fed- 
eral lands” is more than 8 billion board feet. 
Slightly more than 3 billion board feet is on the 
Mount Olympus National Monument, and nearly 
the same quantity is on the Mount Rainier Na- 
tional Park. No cutting is allowed on either of 
these areas. Practically all the remaining volume 
is for one reason or another unavailable for com- 
mercial exploitation. 
9Subsequent to the forest survey inventory, Congress 
created in 1938 the Olympic National Park containing the 
Mount Olympus National Monument, formerly part of the 
Olympic National Forest. 
