Show CLAIMS IN FOREST RESERVES the following is supplied by the ogden utah branch of the forest service of the government agricultural department within the national forest boundaries are some twenty one million acres in private ownership consisting of lands granted or taken up for different purposes before the forests were created or of homestead entries made since in utah there are about acres of such lands within the national forest boundaries in arizona north of the grand canyon acres in idaho south of the salmon river acres in nevada acres and in wyoming covering only I 1 two forests and a portion of another acres making a total of acres in district 4 mineral lands within the national forests are governed by the same public land laws as such lands outside the forests for the year 1915 the following facts are shown on the forest service records for district 4 arizona idaho nevada utah and wyoming in regard to mineral claims claims pending at the beginning of the year 22 new claims during the year 84 claims patented during the year 41 claims cancelled during the year 1 more than mineral claims were patented within the national forests of the united states during the year 1915 |