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Show PETRIFIED FOREST PARK IS REDUCED WASH1NOTON. Aug. I. President Taft haa signed a proclamation reducing the area of the petrified forest national park. Art Bona, from nlnety-Bve to forty square mites. This reduction ,1s made upon the recommendation of Dr. Oeorg P. Merrill, head curator of geology of the national museum, who haa Just made an examination examina-tion of tha land for th Interior depart-meat. depart-meat. He ears In hla report that outside ef the new boundartea there la practically nothing worth preserving. Two large tract within th park wer lao marked off by Dr. Merrill from which mueeume and others, authorised by the secretary of the interior, may tak epecl-mn epecl-mn of the elHclned woods. |