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Show SPELLING OF LA SALLE NATIONAL NA-TIONAL FOREST CHANGED f TO "LA SAL." The president has just signed an executive order changing the spcll-ing spcll-ing of La Salle National Forest, in foutheastem Utah, tp "La Sal." The I change yns niade jn.cyjdanc th . the Suggestions of field officers of the ! Forest Service, as well as adminis trative officers in Washington, ap-r ap-r (sroved and recommended 'by the Sqc- t rotary of Agriculture. I The spelling of the name of this r Niitional Forest was made to con- L form with the name of the French r oxplorer La Salle, through a misun- durstanding, when the forests of the state were rcdistricted last July. The ( correct local application of the name, r However, is to the Salt Mountains, ' cnllod by the Spanish "La Sal" Mountains, evidently in reference to the salt deposits found in the region Besides the range of mountains, a town and a Greek in this part of Utah have the same name. Ljr This National Forest is in charge ! tf Acting Supervisor John Riis, the on of Jacob Riis, the New York reformer, re-former, who entered the Service as a forest guard, some years ago, and worked his way up through the ranks of assistant ranger, forest rhngcr and acting forest supervisor, whore he has been placed in charge of the La Snl. This forest, which has its su-1 su-1 ervisor's headquarters at jUoab, Utah, is located in District No;, ' witihit district headquarters, -at Qgden. |