r 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 State of Washington 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, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by section 24 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 State of Washington and within the boundaries
particularly described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the southwest corner of township thirteen (13) north, range
fifteen (15) east of the Willamette base and meridian; thence northerly
along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line between ranges fourteen
(14) and fifteen (15) east, subject to the proper easterly or westerly
offset on the fourth (4th) standard parallel north, to the point for
the northeast corner of township eighteen (18) north, range fourteen
(14) east; thence westerly along the unsurveyed township line between
townships eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) north to the southeast corner
of township nineteen (19) north, range seven (7) east; thence southerly
along the unsurveyed range line between ranges seven (7) and eight (8)
east, subject to the proper easterly or westerly offsets on the township
line between townships seventeen (17) and eighteen (18) north, and the
fourth (4th) standard parallel north to the point for the southwest
corner of township thirteen (13) north, range eight (8) east; thence
easterly along the unsurveyed township line between townships twelve
(12) and thirteen (13) north to the southwest corner of township
thirteen (13) north, range fifteen (15) east, the place of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
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