26. Rules and Regulations Governing Forest Reserves Established Under Section 24 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stats., 1095.), Washington, 1897.
27. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1897, I, 85-86.
28. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1898, I, 84, 91-92, 97-100.
29. Laws of Oregon, 1895, p. 632. At the same time the state legislature requested that a guardian be appointed to protect the reserve.
30. Mitchell to Lamoreaux, November 30, 1895, RG 49, Division “R,” National Forests, Willamette, Part 4.
31. Commissioner, General Land Office to Secretary of the Interior, March 6, 1896, RG 49, Division “R,” National Forests, Willamette, Part 4. Later on May 7, 1897, the members of the Oregon congressional delegation sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Cornelius N. Bliss supporting the subdivision of the reserve as outlined by Mitchell as well as further relief of the sheepherders from departmental regulations. McBride, Tongue, and Ellis to Bliss, May 7, 1897, RG 49, Division “R,” National Forests, Willamette, Part 4. Also see John Muir, “The National Parks and Forest Reservations,”Harper’s Weekly, XLI (June 5, 1897), 566, and William G. Steel, “Cascade Range Forest Reserve,” March 2, 1897, in Steel Scrapbooks, Forest Reserves, No. 25, Vol. 2, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
32. Lapham, Enchanted Lake, pp. 116-20. Earlier in October 1887 Steel had played a leading role in the organization of the Oregon Alpine Club to promote and preserve the scenic beauty of Oregon.
33. U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Public Lands, National Park in the State of Oregon, 57th Cong., 1st Sess., 1902, H. Rept. 872, p. 3.
34. Earl Morse Wilbur, “Description of Crater Lake,” Mazama, I (1897),
139-50. For the reminiscences of other travelers to Crater Lake during the 1890s see “Story of An Early Trip to Crater Lake, 1895, Party Led by J.C. Pendleton, From Table Rock, Oregon,” and A.E. Voorhies, “First Trip to Crater Lake” [1899], CRLA-History-Miscellaneous, Division of Interpretation Files, Crater Lake National Park.
35. J.S. Diller, “Crater Lake, Oregon,” Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897, pp. 378-79, and H.R.M., “Crater Lake, Oregon,” Nature, LVII (February 17, 1898), 376.
36. Ibid., p. 379. Later on December 16, 1897, S.B. Ormsby, Special Agent and Supervisor, prepared an extensive report on the timber resources of the reserve. Ormsby to Hermann, December 16, 1897, RG 49, Division “R,” National Forests, Willamette, Part 2.
37. Frederick V. Colville, “Sheep-Grazing In the Cascade Forest Reserve of Oregon,” in S. Doc. 189, pp. 119-59. Also see Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1898, pp. 54, 187-88.
38. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, I, 108.
39. H.R.M., “Crater Lake, Oregon,” 375.
40. “Report on the Survey and Examination of Forest Reserves (March), 1898,” in S. Doc. 189, p. 69. The full text of the report dealing with the Cascade Range Forest Reserve may be seen in Appendix D.
41. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1901, I, 115, 445-46.
