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Show Tiif. people of Idaho are alive to the importance of timber reservations. Commissioner Cakteu of the general . laud ofiice has received a petition sigued Vy a number of the citizens of that state Bskina: that a tra' t of land adjoining the Yellowstone National park on the vest, containing about 7.50, 000 acres, including Lake Henry, lie set apart for that purpose. A special agent has been appointed to examine into the advisability advisa-bility of such action, aud at the same time to investigate the practicability of extending the reservation north into Jlontana. so as to embrace the country around the headquarters of the Madison river. |