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Show LANDS ELIMINATED" I FROM DIXIE FOREST I Large Area in Arizona Held o be , Improperly Designated, Returnn H to Public Domain. H On May 10 tho President signed a Ef proclamation, tho effect of which fstS 1 cstsl &.&W Ui ,D,xie Natl0n For- est situated in Arizann and Utah, over H one-hnlf of the lands embraced there! Moron d'mlnntlons, which total iH 688,520 acres, are all mado from the M S n.lZi,a dIvi8lon,3 of thIs rest The area known as tho Pnrashont di- M vision, consisting of n block of land H wJl iGrar ,Fany,on of tho Colorado , M River, is abolished, and this entire H a8?8t05edi t0 th,, Public domain; H The other Arizona division of the for- I H est. known as tho Mt. Trombull di- i H vision, nnd also partly bounded by tho v H Grand Canyon, "lias been greatly re- mM duccd, all but about 28 sections being H eliminated. Tho lands retained in M this division, as a part of the forest, H compriso the well timbered portion M and includes lands on which are Bit- H uatcd n number of small sawmills. H The result of tho largo elimination is M to restore to tho public domain n con- H flidcrablo area which the forest ser- H vice has for somo tlmo felt could not ,mM properly bo rotnlned ns part of a na- tH tloal forest, since tho lands affected mM wero found to havo littlo or no vnluo ' H for timber or watershed purposes, but H to bp really valuable only for stock iH grazing. rH Tho proposal to make this elimina- H tjon was opposed by tho majority of i mM the users, who desired to have tho H lands remain within tho forest in or- H dor that their cattle might grazo un- ,mM der government regulation. Becauso H of tho manifest non-forest chnractcr JH pf tho area, tho Secretary of Agricul- M ture determined to recommend its re- H lcasofrpm national forest form of H reservation. The Utah division of tho ,M DixIeBltuated north of St. Gcorgo, is $ 'H not, affected by the present proclama- H tion. Two small nrcas of national ' H forest lands in southern Nevada, in r 'he vicinity of Las Vegas, known as H 'the Moapa division, and formerly a , H oart of the Tolyabo forest, are trans- H ferred to the Dixie forest by this same 1 ,H proclamation. This action is taken H IiyrjeJjijKcmiae.'.of admlnUtrative-rre n -. ''fH quircments, since it Wound that these - ,- iH areas could bo more prpperly and moro , h economically Buperviseaby tho for- IH est supervisor nt St. George, Utah, ' v lH than from the Tolyabo headquarters at jl Austin, Nevada. H |