Bill Taft: “Now we are letting them in to see the animals eat.”

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…

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.

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…