A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled
"An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," "That
the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and
reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests,
in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or
undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations,
and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the
establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;"

And whereas the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, within the
limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it
appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and
reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the
aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there
is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public
reservation all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying
and being situate in the Territory of Arizona, and within the boundaries
particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the northwest corner of township fifteen (15) south, range
fourteen (14) east, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona; thence
southerly along the range line to its intersection with the third (3d)
Standard Parallel south; thence easterly along said parallel to the
northwest corner of section five (5), township sixteen (16) south, range