Executive Order 515

by President of the United States

It is hereby ordered that all that part of the military reservation of Fort Grant, Arizona, as declared by Executive Order of April 17, 1876, which lies northerly and easterly of the following-described lines, shall become a part of the Mt. Graham Forest Reserve, to be protected and administered as forest-reserve land, but that the same shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the War Department for military purposes, and to insure such use, the land shall not be subject to any form of appropriation or disposal under the land laws of the United States, viz:

Beginning at the northeast corner of section 5, township 9 south, range 23 east, in Graham County, Arizona; thence east along the boundary of the said forest reserve, to the west boundary of the military reservation; thence S. 7° 28′ E., along the last-mentioned boundary, to the south line of section 9, same township and range; thence east to a point two miles east of the southeast corner of section 8 of same township and range; thence south one mile; thence east two miles; thence south one mile; thence east one mile; thence south one mile; thence east one mile; thence south to the east boundary of the reservation.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, October 6, 1906.