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Show ! LAND CLASSIFICATION j WORK FINISHED The Forest Service has just finished fin-ished one of the many and varied projects undertaken by that branch of the Government service, which work involved the classification ot 27,942,000 acres of National Forest land in District 4, of which Ogden, Utah, is the headquarters. Of these forest lands 1,090,000 acres are located lo-cated in Arizona, 27,, 600 in Colorado, Colora-do, 11,510.000 in Idaho, 4,713.000 in Nevada, 7,430,000 in Utah, and 318,000 in Wyoming. At the time the National Forests were originally created, it was Impossible Im-possible to avoid the inclusion ot small tracts of land suitable for agricultural agri-cultural purposes. These tracts were scattered throughout the interior ot the forests, but there were no legal means of utilizing the same for homestead purposes. However, the Secretary of Agriculture finally secured se-cured the passage of the Act of June 11, 1906, commonly called the Forest For-est Homestead Act. This is the only .act providing for securing lands within the National Forests for homestead or any form of agricultural agricul-tural use. and each tract is limited in extent to 160 acres. Under this act some 2,300 Forest homesteads, involving 294,000 acres, have been listed in District 4 alone. This method was not very expeditions, expedi-tions, and on August 10, 1912, Congress Con-gress directed the classification and segregation of all National Fores; land? This work has now been completed, com-pleted, and maps covering the entire body of land included within the exterior ex-terior boundaries of the National Forests have been prepared and tor-warded tor-warded to Washington. .These map show the location of the different types of timber, roads and trails, ant; each map is accompanied by a repor; containing full information regarding regard-ing such features as elevation, topography, topog-raphy, soil, climate, precipitation and amounts and character of timber. |