Executive Order: Establishment of Moapa River Reserve

Executive Order: Establishment of Moapa River Reserve

Moapa River Reserve

[Formerly called Muddy Valley Reserve. Nevada Agency; occupied by Chemehuevi, Kaibab, Pawipit, Paiute, and Shivwits; area, 1¼ square miles; act of March 12, 1873 (18 Stat., 445).]

March 12, 1873

Executive Mansion

Agreeably to the recommendation contained in the foregoing letter of the Secretary of the Interior of this day, the following described lands in the southeastern part of Nevada are hereby set apart for the use of the Indians in that locality: Commencing at a point on the north bank of the Colorado River where the eastern line of Nevada strikes the same; running thence due north with said eastern line to a point far enough north from which a line running due west will pass one mile north of Muddy Springs; running due west from said point to the one hundredth and fifteenth meridian of west longitude; thence south with said meridian to a point due west from the place of beginning; thence due east to the west bank of the Colorado River; thence following the west and north bank of the same to the place of beginning.

U. S. Grant


February 12, 1874

Executive Mansion

In lieu of an Executive order dated the 12th of March last, setting apart certain lands in Nevada as a reservation for the Indians of that Territory or such of them as might be deemed advisable, it is hereby ordered that there be withdrawn from sale or other disposition, and set apart for the use of the Pai-Ute and such other Indians as the Department may see fit to locate thereon, the tract of country bounded and described as follows, viz:

Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Colorado River of the West, 8 miles east of the one hundred and fourteenth degree of west longitude; thence due north to the thirty-seventh degree of north latitude; thence west with said parallel to a point 20 miles west of the one hundred and fifteenth degree of west longitude; thence due south to the middle of the main channel of the Colorado River of the West; thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the place of beginning.

U. S. Grant