Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-07
I'M REGARD TO WESTERN TREES
Text Of Commissioaer Sparks' Latest
Order In Regard to Tinber
Cutting.
A Manifesto Which Plainly Aims Ia
Cripple Montana's Leading
Industry.
Some American Opinions On the Cele-
brated Cutting Case...Latest
From RiOtous Belfast.

WASHINGTON, August 6.-The interior
Department to-day promulgated rules anc
regulations governing the removal OF tim
Der from Government lands. They are pre-
scribed by virtue of the act of June 81,
1873, entitled, IAN act authorizing citi'
Gems of Colorado, Nevada and Territories
to fell and remove timber OF public do
main for mining and domestic purposes"
The act applies only to Colorado, Nevada.
Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho and Mon.
tana and other mineral districts Of the
United States not specially provided for.
The land from which timber 10 ielled or re-
moved under the provisions Of this act
must be known to be strictly Of q mineral
character, and not SUBJECT to entry under
existing laws of the United States, except
for mineral entry. No person not a citi-
zen or bonafde resident Of the
State, Territory or other mineral district
provided for in said act is
permitted to fell or remove timber
from mineral landst llv1xln, n NO prrsOn,
firm, or corporation telling or removing
timber under this act shall sell or dispose
OF the same or any lumber manufactured
thersfrom to any other than citizens and
bona fide residents of the State or Terri
other purpose than for legitimate use of
said purchaser for purposes mentioned in
said act. Any owner or manager OF q saw
mill or other person telling or removing
timber under the provisions of this act
shall keep a record OF all timber SO cut or
removed, stating the time when cut, names
OF parties cutting same or in charge of the
work, and describing the land whence cut
by legal subdivisions il surveyed, and as
near as practical, if not surveyed. with a
statement of the evidence upon which it is
claimed that the land is mineral in
character, and stating also the kind and
from, together with the names of parties to
whom any such timber or lumber is sold,
dates of sale and the purpose for which
sold. and shall not sell or dispose OF such
timber or lumber made from such timber
without taking from the purchaser
a written agreement the same shall
not be used except for building,
agricultural. mining or other domestic
purposes within any State or Territory;
and every such purchaser shall further be
required to file with said owner q certif-
cate under oath that he purchases such
timber or lumber exclusively for his own
use and for purposes aforesaid. Timber
telled or removed shall be strictly limited
to building, agricultural, mining and other
domestic purposes within the State or
Territory where it grew. All cutting of such
timber for use outside the State or Terri
tory where the same is cut, and all re-
movals thereof, outside of the State or
Territory where it is cut, are forbidden. No
person will be permitted to fell or remove
any growing trees of any kind whatsoever
less than eight inches in diameter. Persons
telling or removing timber from public
mineral lands of the United States must
utilize all Of eaca tree cut or that
can be proftably used, and must cut and
remove tops and brush or dispose of sam
in such manner as to prevent the spread
OF forest fires. The act under which these
rules and regulations were prescribed pro-
vides as follows: Section 3-"Any person
or persons who shall violate the provis-
ions OF this act, or any rules and regula-
tions in pursuance thereof made by the
Secretary of the Interior, shall be deemed
guilty OF a misdemeanor and upon convic-
ton shall be fined any sun not exceeding
$500 and to which may be added an i'm
prisonment for any term not exceeding six
months These rules and regulations
shall take effect September 1, 1886. and all
existing rules and regulations heretofore
prescribed under said act az inconsistent
are revoked"
The Cutting Case.
MEXICO, (via Galveston) August 6.-The
Cutting case is still uppermost. A reporter
visited some of the American residents to
get their views to-day. Neither Minister
Jackson nor Consul General Porct, felt at
liberty to say anything for publication.
The General Superintendent OF the Mexican
Railway said he was sorry so much
trouble had originated from a petty quar-
rel between Cutting and Medina. The
General Manager of Wells, Fargo & Co. IS !
Express, Mr.. Turner, said he considered it
q matter Of little Importance. He thought |
it highly unjust for American papers to
assert that there was no protection in
Mexico for Americans. Charles L.
.eger, publisher of the Mexican Finan-
cier, said: II do not think our
or people at home realize the
and even dangerous position
in which the business interests of Ameri-
living here are placed by the conduct
OF adventures on the border, who tries to
use the American flag to protect him in
order to obtain a little notoriety. Several
other gentlemen declared they neither con-
it a fit subject for diplomatic inter-
snce. Cutting was not denied any of the
egal projections guaranteed to:Msxicans
1nder similar circumstances, and by his re-
usal to recognize the authority of the
;ourt. he himself presented due considera-
ion OF the question OF jurisdiction.
A Tumult in Belfast.