Herbert Hoover: “No one in 150 years has been able to improve upon it.”

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

You have always been a public spirited citizen, working for the best interests of your state and of the nation and I know that whether in diplomatic work or at home, you will continue to render valuable service.

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked