Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-27
TURTLE MOUNTAIN REsERrE.
A Plea That the Subject May Receive thu
Fullest investigation.

FulleBc investigation.
A concurrent resolution has been intro
luced in the house of the Legislative as
Of our state in opposition to the
Turtle mountain timber reserve-and being
with the good undertaking, and
an INTEREST," in forestry n the best
for cultural pursuits. l deem it
my duty to present some important facts
pertaining to the subject. The reasons
assigned for opposing the reserve is that
the settlers should have the right to use the
dry timber for domestic purposes.
Whilst there are always two sides to
all questions, in this case upon this point
there is nc difference of opinion.
At all times and under all circumstances
[ have informally and s%trenuously claimed
and argued that the settlers near the
should be allowed, free of
charge, the use of the dry, dead and fallen
timber for domestic purposes, IN the form
of fuel, fencing and building material;
and this has been the position assumed by
all friends of the reserve.
The law seems plain upon this point
that the settlers have a perfect legal right
~ ~ lilto Vic Iiiiuel ,cuI, ieiloVe anu use,
free Of cost, such timber rs they may need
for domestic purposes. This, too, is the
Interpretation Of the law as made or given
by some OF the best informed and strongest
minded lawyers in the west. as we'll as
leading men in Washington. Indeed, the
Turtle mountain settlers are exercising
their right use the dry timber, anu no
national official has in any manner inter
dicted such lawful and necessary action.
The fuel question has been fully and in
telllgently discussed. At the present time
During the last two years. large quanti-
ties OF wood, mostly poplar and birch,
have been shipped by the carload to va
riOus villages along the line Of the Great
Northern. Thus it has been calculated
than is used by all the settlers in the neigh
borhOOd Of thirty miles OF the mountains.
This process Of consumption will soon rob
the mountains OF its timber. Sometimes
as many as twenty car loads of wood are
moved out OF st. John in II train. Ii the
should remain in the hands of the
government in the form Of a national re-
serve, the living, thrifty trees will be pro.
tected and the dry and down timber must
be removed to afford protection to the
sound timber from the rayages of fires
sweeping up from the pralrles below,
which, within my own remembrance.
(since 1889 have destroyed thousands Of
acres OF some Of the best timber in the
mountains. This dry and down timber.
will be at the disposal of the actual settlers,
and that, too, probably at a nominal cost
or given free by removal from the ground.
Indeed already a bill is before congress.
senate bill No. 1926, which has been fully
Endorsed by the committee on forestry aud
agriculture. That bill requires that each
actual settler shall, on application, have
five acres Of wood land assigned to him
from which he may cut, under proper re-
strictiOns, his fuel, fencing aud building
material at cost to him OF but ($5) five dol
lars per year. This bill apple, to the TIM
her reserves and all lands belonging to the
national government.
This question involves the best interest
OF our people and the state. The move.
ment has been fully Endorsed at the noun
Then why should not North Dakota have
II Of thirty-twO created and projected
national reserves of the western states ?
The law creating the reserve system EN-
anated from and was upheld 10y an hon
Ored and worthy citizen of North Dakota,
namely, Hon. H. HansbrOugh. For this,
with other good reasons, it would seem our
state should take some pride in having one
of the many national reserves OF the west.
This movement for the North Dakota
national timber park reservation has been
and is now, wholly the work Of the people.
by the people, for the people, and it is fol
them to say, through their representatives
whether the good work shall or shall moi
be consummated by the n0n-passage OF
passage Of the concurrent NJ resolution Is no"
Regarding BOller Inspection.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: In Wednesdays
issue is al article in the local column
which refers to myself and some others.
You state Harry Oliver made short work
of somebody's pet measure, introduced by
request yesterday. He characterized the
boiler inspection law a nuisance, and in.
stead of allowing a new attachment to &c
through, offered an amendment striking
inserting instead a section repeating the
law now in force. The farmers are with
him on the proposition" Now as I an
the pet referred to 1 have 10 doubt you
will give me a chance to explain. l belong
to that class of politicians who do JUS
what they think is right and are not
moved by fees or favors. l have followed
practical steam boiler making and en-
cheering for about forty years. l am vel
verSed in the present boiler inspection law
1t has some good points and some bad ones
which l pointed out to the committee, t.
which this bill was referred. Now, house
bill No. AZ was intended to remedy the de-
tects of the old law. 1t was read aud ap
proved by a large number of boiler makers
and engineers OF the Northern Pacific
railroad and approved by them anC
they requested Messrs. Veeder and Mile
to help me with the bill. So you see you
article is far-reaching, not one Of whom
had any expectation Of being benefited by
the bill, but these men have a degree o.
pride in the trade that makes them fee
hostile at men being. appointed to a posi-
ton they know nothing Of. That is one O
the excuses 1 make in getting house bill 4
before the legislature. One Other;there were
over 800 persons either killed or injured il
the past year by steam boiler explosions
and 1 suppose this and other years will
average about the same. Will any maj
who has a particle OF feeling for the wild
Ows and orphans LETT destitute by the so
called deadly thresher. deny that there il
not work for the legislature to stop thi
slaughter. This subject will not be- dOwnet
by the adverse vote on the bill. 1t will re
taliate, and don't you forget it. One wort
more. There has been filed in the COVER
nOr's Office a large number of application
for boiler inspector. Neither myself no
anyone connected with house bill No. 4
have in any way filed or asked for the pc
sitiOn. Therefore, as our minds are no
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