By the President of the United
States of America
A Proclamation
WHEREAS Scotts Bluff is the highest known point
within the State of Nebraska, affording a view for miles over the
surrounding country;
Whereas Mitchell Pass, lying to the south of said
bluff, was traversed by the old Oregon Trail and said bluff was used as
a landmark and rendezvous by thousands of immigrants and frontiersmen
travelling said trail en route for new homes in the Northwest; and
Whereas, in view of these facts, as well as of the
scientific interest the region possesses from a geological standpoint,
it appears that the public interests will be promoted by reserving the
lands upon which the said bluff and the said pass are located as a
national monument:
Now, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me
vested by section two of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the
preservation of American antiquities," approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat.,
225), do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from all forms of
appropriation under the public-land laws, and set apart as the Scotts
Bluff National Monument, the following described lands, to-wit: the
northwest quarter, north half of the southwest quarter, southeast
quarter of the southwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter and the west half of the southeast quarter of section four,
township twenty-one north, range fifty-five west; lots one, two and
three, south half of the northeast quarter, north half of the southeast
quarter, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the northeast
quarter of the southwest quarter of section five, township twenty-one
north, range fifty-five west; the northeast quarter of section nine,
township twenty-one north, range fifty-five west; lots six and seven,
section twenty-seven, township twenty-two north, range fifty-five west;
lot four, southeast quarter, and south half of the southwest quarter of
section twenty-eight, said township and range; the southeast quarter of
the southeast quarter of section twenty-nine, said township and range;
the east half of the east half of section thirty-two, said township and
range; and the north half, southwest quarter, north half of the
southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of
section thirty-three, township twenty-two north, range fifty-five, all
west of the Sixth Principal Meridian in the State of Nebraska, and that
the boundaries of the said Scotts Bluff National Monument are as shown
on the diagram hereto attached and made a part hereof.
Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons
not to appropriate or injure any natural feature of this Monument, or to
occupy, exploit, settle or locate upon any of the lands reserved by this
proclamation.
The Director of the National Park Service, under the
direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision,
management and control of this Monument, as provided in the Act of
Congress entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service and for
other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat., 535).
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE in the District of Columbia This 12th day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the
one hundred and forty-fourth.
WOODROW WILSON