Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (86 Stat., 847), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497), the following-described public lands In the State of California are hereby temporarily withdrawn, subject to the conditions, provisions, and limitations of said acts, for the purpose of classifying said lands and pending enactment of appropriate legislation for their proper disposition:
Beginning at a point on the east boundary line of the Sequoia National Park which is on the range line between ranges thirty-one and thirty-two east of the Mount Diablo meridian, in township eighteen south of the Mount Diablo base, California, where said range line intersects the hydrographic divide between Little Kern River and Soda Creek; then southeasterly along the hydrographic divide between Little Kern River and Soda Creek to the junction of Little Kern River and Quail Creek; thence easterly along the hydrographic divide between Quail Creek and Lion Creek to the summit of the Great Western Divide; thence southeasterly along the Great Western Divide to Coyote Peak (United States Geological Survey bench mark ten thousand nine hundred and nineteen feet); thence easterly along the hydrographic divide through sections thirty-one and thirty-two, township eighteen south, range thirty-three east, and section four, township nineteen south, range thirty-three east, to the junction of Kern River and Little Creek, about one-quarter mile south of Kern Lake and between that lake and Little Lake; thence easterly along the main divide south of Little Creek and between Golden Trout Creek and Cold Creek (tributaries of Kern River) to the summit of Kern Peak (United States Geological Survey bench mark eleven thousand four hundred and ninety-three feet, triangulation station); thence northerly and easterly along the hydrographic divide between the South Fork of Kern River and Golden Trout Creek to the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; thence northerly and westerly along the main crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Pine Creek Pass, at the head of a tributary of Piute Creek, which flows southwesterly through French Canyon; thence following southwesterly down west bank of said creek through French Canyon and continuing along west bank of Piute Creek to the junction of the South Fork of San Joaquin River and Piute Creek; thence southerly along the main hydrographic divide to the summit of Mount Henry (twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-seven feet); thence southeasterly along the hydrographic divide between the drainage of the South Fork of San Joaquin River and the drainage of the North Fork of Kings River to the Junction with Goddard Divide; thence southerly and westerly along the hydrographic divide between Goddard Creek and the drainage of the North Fork of Kings River, and along the divide between Crown Creek and Blue Canyon Creek, along Kettle Ridge to Kettle Dome; thence southwesterly along the hydrographic divide to the junction of Crown and Fawn Creeks; thence westerly along the hydrographic divide between Fawn Creek and Rodgers Creek to Obelisk Peak; thence westerly along the main hydrographic divide south of Rodgers Creek to Spanish Mountain (triangulation station, United States Geological Survey bench mark ten thousand and forty-four feet); thence southerly along the hydrographic divide (Deer Ridge) to the junction of the South and Middle Forks of Kings River; thence southerly along the hydrographic divide between Ten-mile Creek and Lockwood Creek and along the Sequoia and Big Baldy Ridges to Big Baldy (triangulation station, United States Geological Survey, bench mark eight thousand two hundred and eleven feet); thence continuing southerly along the said hydrographic divide (Big Baldy Ridge) to the northwest corner of the Sequoia National Park, which is approximately on or near said hydrographic divide, between townships fourteen and fifteen south, ranges twenty-eight and twenty-nine east; thence east along the north boundary to the northeast corner of said national park; thence south along the east boundary to the point of beginning.