The times., 1897-04-07
FOREST RESERVES REPORT
A Permanent Bureau Recon-
mended for the Department.
TROOPS TO PROTECT LANDS
Provision for the Secretary of the
Interior to Issue the Rules Neces-
sary for Preservation of Re-
es-AgriculturaI and Min.
eraI Districts to BE Subtracted.

The Secretary of the Interior gave hear
ing Monday, as told in The Times Of that
day, to a number OF Western Senators and
Representatives, who advocated the revo-
by ex-President Cleveland ON February %.
The department is impa tient and TO de-
gree distressed at the condition OF affairs
resulting from the Summary tying up or
SO vast a territory by Mr. Cleveland.
the Secretary of The Interior received
Yesterday communication signed By all
the members of the forestry commission
which answ ers many OF the arguments ad-
vanced by the opponents Of the new for
est reserve. The report OF the commission
will recommend that authority be given
TO the Secretary OF War to make details OF
troops at the request OF the Secretary Of
the Interior to protect temporarily and
until forest service is organized, the prop
erty of the Government in the forest reser
vations from fire and trespass, and TO en-
force such rules and regulations as he may
make for their care. IL will also recon-
mend the establishment Of a permanent
forest bureau in the Department OF the In
terror, composed OF trained officers, to adj
minister, maintain and improve the re-
served forest lands.
1t will propose TO authorize the Secre-
tary of the Interior TO Issue tine necessary
rules for the protection of the reserva-
tions, for tie sale of firewOOd, fencing
and timber from them tO actual settlers
in and adjacent to the reservations, and
TO owners OF mines legally located therein
for use III such mines; for granting permits
to stwniiil owners to enter the reservation
for the purpose of manufacturing such luni-
ber as may be sold to actual settlers in
and adjacent to the reservations and TO
the owners of mines therein; for allowing
actual settlers who have ne timber on their
own claims To take from the reservations
flrewood posts poles and fencing ma
terial necessary for their immediate per
sonai use; for allowing the public to enter
and cross the reservations; Tor granting TO
county commissioners rights OF way for
wagon roads in and across the reServa-
tions: for granting rights Of way for irT-
eating bitches. fun and pipes for
reservoir sites, and for permitting pros
pectors under such rules as he may from
time to time establish. To enter the Teserya-
tionS in search Of valuable metals
The commission will recommend that the
reservations be opened to the location
OF mining claims under the general mining
laws.
Prof. Sargent, in the course of his con-
ference with Secretary Rliss on April .,
stated that the report Of the commission
would be ready about the st OF May aud
that it would make plain just what lands
are included in tile reservations in dispute
He admitted that more land is contained
in these reservations than is essential to
forestry, and that large tracts of agri-
cultural land or mineral land wiz be sub
tracted.
The commission would allow n man 70
go in there and find his mining claim after
the survey had established the exist ence
of mineral land.
1t appeared to be the opinion OF Secretary
Bliss and Land Commissioner Hermann
that considerable hardship was being
worked uron certain industries within the
lands set apart by Mr.. Cleveland, for at
one pointin the hearing tile Secretary said:
''Of course, it is impossible that these
reservations go on as they are now. They
work a hardship to the people"