Bill Taft: “I give my cordial approval to the recommendation made by the Secretary of State and urge upon Congress timely provision…”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley 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 Trinity National Forest…

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.

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.

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