Bill Taft: “China is making remarkable progress and admirable efforts toward the eradication of the opium evil.”

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…

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…