APPENDIX. 



Report of Special Agent Schwartz, of the General Land Office. 



Department of the Interior, 



General Land Office, 



Helena^ Mont., July IS, 1905. 

 The Commissioner General Land Office, 



Washington, D. G. 



Sir : By your Div. " p," G. F. P., May 5, 1905, you directed me to" 

 make certain examinations as to the Shoshone Forest Eeserve tempo- 

 rary withdrawal in Idaho, the scope of which will appear from the 

 following five questions Avhich are taken verbatim from your above 

 letter, and are by you therein directed principally to townships 46 

 and 47 north, range 5 east, and township 47 north, ranges 4 and 6 

 east, B. M. 



I have the honor to report that in June, 1905, I made careful field 

 examination of the above townships, and some of those adjoining; 

 also that for the past five years I have been familiar generally with 

 the territory embraced within the temporary Avithdrawal. 



You ask me to examine and report: 



Question 1. Whether the lands claimed as agricultural under set- 

 tlement rights are in fact agricultural or timber lands? 



Answer. They are, without exception, timber lands. 



Question 2. If timber lands, what portions thereof, if any, could be 

 successfully cultivated and improved if the timber were removed, and 

 the character and productiveness of the soil? 



Answer. There are about 180 squatters' cabins within the with- 

 drawal, and each cabin is intended to hold 160 acres until the land 

 comes into market. About 100 of these claims have no lands sus- 

 ceptible of cultivation or improvement because of the steep and 

 rocky sidehills and the shifting, gravelly stream bed in the narrow 

 ravines. Between 40 and 50 of the claims have about 5 acres each 

 capable of cultivation if the timber were removed, and these 5 

 acres are small, gravelly flats between steep mountain sides, and the 

 flats are overlaid quite generally Avith from 6 to 24 inches of black 

 soil, through which there is considerable rock showing. There are 

 about 20 claims such as the last above, whereon the amount of land 

 capable of improvement and cultivation will average 10 acres; and 

 there are about 10 claims in the withdrawal where the flats widen 



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