Bill Taft: “Any other policy is equivalent to throwing away a most valuable national asset.”

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…

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…

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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