Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1920 — UNCLE SAM ANNEXS A MOUNTAIN AND FOREST [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM ANNEXS A MOUNTAIN AND FOREST

The senate bill enlarging the Oregon national forest to include Larch mountain, the watershed of streams which supply Oneonta gorge and Multonomah falls, was passed Tuesday by the house. The house also passed bills td enlarge the Targhe and Nez Perce national forests in Idaho, 46,000 acres in the Bitter Root mountains to be added to the former and 34,000 in Idaho county to the later. Sales of 2,800 acres of land to Pocatello, Idaho, so that city may protect its water supply, is authorized in another bill.