Bill Taft: “I very much doubt, however, the wisdom of a policy which constitutes so large a subsidy and requires additional taxation…”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Sitgreaves…

It is believed that the following described land, to wit: Lot three of section two, in township twenty-two north, of range twenty-four west, of the Montana Meridian, in the State of Montana, is a natural and prospective center of population

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…