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Show Js Ijlri Hills Reserved ''f For Military Purposes u iu 1'rcsldejoMVIIi.pn. Issues,Order WJIh- BK droning 18,70(1 Acres of Nearby H -Lnnd mid Will Establish lllg H9 ' C MnnriMcrliiK Grounds. B f ,' Actllig on the executive order or MN-ji' President Woodrow Wilson, the Unlt-HI Unlt-HI . , cd Stntrs land omce on Tuesday for-PJ for-PJ , molly withdrew 18,700 acres of gov-K gov-K , ', ernracut lnnd Immediately west of lp,' Jordan Narrows for a military rcser-pl rcser-pl vatlon and maneuver ground for the pi ' Utah National Guard. The order Is SL-F the- result of a recommendation of E. W'' A'Wcdgwood, adjutant gcncrnl of Pfcrt ' p Uttili.to the war department at Wash-IMsp Wash-IMsp , , IBgton last month. L & l '.'Gctternl Wedgwood says that the i , ground Is Ideal for maneuvers In that & If Is rugged, presenting tho kind of M,t1 UJpogrnnliy which troops might en-gK' en-gK' Qountcr In actual wnrfare. It has S' , numerous camping places, sufficiently if' ' large to nccommoduto neveral rcgl-ffiji rcgl-ffiji ments, but otherwise the land con-e- J elts of tccp foothills and deep raft ra-ft ' I 1nes nnd In oncp art It tins a deep p t arroyo nearly flvcm lies In length. K-" F The foothills In tho center of the & t reservation nro known as Traverse , v - Range, extending west from Jordan :' Narrows to the north end of Cedar ' Volley, nnd tho top of the West Moun-t" Moun-t" tains. The Utah-8nlt Lake county K A Knindnry lino passes directly through 'i ' t ( (Ho reservation and flvem lies west of A- the extreme western boundary of the ,". v roscrvatlon Is Mount Lowlston, which r 1 towers 10,623 feet and Is tho highest Pf peak of tho Oqulrrhs. Tlckvlllo creek V has Its source In the mountains of the .. fi reservation. Together with several T , h springs It will furnish a sufficient wat-v wat-v It er supply. Tho reservation Is within one day's march of Salt Lake and but Iu few miles northwest of Lehl. Utah Lake and Saratoga Springs are close to the reservation, as aro Fort Herri-man Herri-man and Cedar Fort, which were Im- ,.. portant vantage points during tho In- dlan wars. The order withdrawing tho land I ' specifies that It Is to be used permnn- ' eutly by tho Utah National Guard for ' joint maneuvers of tho mllltla of several sev-eral states and the regular army, and ' that target ranges for small arms and t artillery may be provided on the res- ' orvatlon. It Is said artillery flro covering cov-ering a range of four miles may bo undertaken on tho reservation with I" perfect safety. I " In the extreme western part of the ; reservation aro forests of spruce and cedar several miles square, In which It Is said an entire regiment of In- -' fantry can be concealed from view, , And from where It might successfully , resist the attack of on army of several sev-eral thousand men. """T The land withdrawn Is described as l . 1 follows: Sections 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, V I. 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34, township 4 south, V-: B range 1 west; sections 4, 6 , , 7, 8 and :', U 9, township 6 south, range 1 west; t H ., Mctlons B, 6, 7. 8, 17, It, 19, 20, 21. ft. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 28, 29, 30. 31, 33, ?'a 34 and 35, township 4 south, range 2 i;M west; sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, P&y- U and 12, township 6 south, range 2 Kl west. ,, gL-m Tbe tract embraced In the with- Sfcu drawal order is about six 'miles wide BaM and nearly twenty miles, long. It Is llfjB nearly one-halt owned by" Lehl real- fwj dents, purchased through atate selec- Br' jm tlons. It embraces the district known ,." m aa Beef Hollow, Cedar 'Folnt, Tick- I ville, The Dlack Ridge and the West U .Canyon. It also Includes" a, Jot of dry II fanai in the north end of. Cedar Vol-P Vol-P ley owned by Ed Southwlk, Hyrum j , " Smith, Dr. Holbrook, Bot) Drothers, ,, i ' Devey & Sons and James! II. Clarke, and aomec holco farms litllho vicinity t i of Isaac Hardman's farm hear Jordan S River. A |