The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24

| character.
| 1st1c magnificence and asked for a re-
serve of 1900 900 acres, a wild. weird
war whoop came from the head Of the
| lakes. This has continued even until
| the present, though Chicago has been
| forced to modify its wishes to the ex-
| tent of more than ue0o0.e90 acres. Du-
| luth people come forward with the. sta1e>
! ment that the establishment of a. park
| will shut them off from an immense ter
| ritory about to become settled I'D and
| tributary to their markets. While this
| might have been true under the first
| plan, at present it is fallacy which will
| become evident after a little study. The
| establishment of a national park in j.,
situation such that travel to it over
| the northern mail route from the East.
/ ana over the lake and rail tourist route,
| yearly becoming more popular. must
| perferce come through Duluth, thera ia
| no argument so foolish as the one that
/ Duluth will lose money. Such a park
would act to Duluth as a CHEEKY sum.
mer garden does to a, saloon. 1t would
| draw annually thousands of visitors
! would make the city an QUILTING point
| for all who pass through it en- route to
| the park, and would benefit the eitv
from financial standpoint in a Thousand
| different ways
SECONDED BY LUMBERMEN.
with the lumbermen the proposition is
different. At present there is not ra-
liable and responsible, numbering firm in
the state, holding pine lands in the lake
region, but that seconds the scheme with
enthusiasm, as providing a means where's
ny the safety Of standing pine may be
secured and whereby the annual loss
TO lumber owners from fires, an item not
10 De lightly disregarded, may be elm
mated Concerning the relation of tie
iumbermen to the proposed park. Col.
Thomas S. Shevlin. of the firm of shev
Hn-Carpenter, Minneapolis, one of the
pest posted lumbernen in the state, ha,
this to say: .--.
Under the first plan for the establish
inenL OF national park in Minnesota
4'0o0.eG0,0 00 feet, approxima tely. of stand
ing pine was involved. That this stllnan
age should revert to the state or govern
ment through legislation to establish a
park was a possibility which Instantly
tfhtagonfzed the lumber interests. The
! pine on the compromise site represents
approximately LOCO, 9eO. 600 feet of narleet-
eoie TIMBER of which about 40 per cent
| Is white pine and the, remainder Norway
pine. Ih1s pine stands on yernnent In
/ uIan reservations and ,rris the pror,eyt1-
| eI the Indians, for whom the government
nndef the Nelson bill handles it and uses
the funds accruing. for. the Indians. There
| are no private oWnerships ON the section
representing the compromise site
From plain business stas,fnefnt T
am enthusiastically In favor of the ma.
Ilonal park proposed by Col TCooper. At
present on the Indian reservations MOTH
ing Out Old dead and down timber is .eu+
and marketed. Under government control
| q reserve including the five reservations
would yield annually 81, $780, 900 feet of fine
tlmoer, and at the end Of half a century
lifere would be as mach pine standing as
at present. This could be ACCOMPLISHED
by cutting only old trees, leaving the new
growth to mature. Scientific forestry
1 laws, providing for the romoval of tons
and refuse would cost the lunbermen
little and would eliminate the danger
from forest fires to a large extent At a
cost Of 81 per thousand feet the tons
could be removed and harmed, leaving the
! forest clear under fsotx
FOR FIRE BRoTzcTIoN.
ga forest reserve as absolutely neces-
sary for fire protscSf6Il If park were
established under the Control OF the war
department and timber cut in an honest
manner the stumpaSe price :accruins fror,
the sale of 5oe0o,oGo beet year would rep
/ resent the equal Of aaDef cent OF 81 900. 900
| Which would make a good Investment for
| the government In addition to this, such
/ tracts as are adapted might be used for
agricultural purposes without Interfering
! with the park plans, giving opportunity
for additional revenue. The Indians
! might remain on tthes reservation and
| could be utilized todgtard the standing
/ timber and act as police and guides
| "a fact that stares the state In the face
4 Is that there is not Jtoday on the Leech
/ lake reservations more than so per cent
/ OF the pine which was standing there
/ twenty-five years ago. In the Red Lake
/ district, to the north, there is less than Is
/ per cent. La all this section there is
1 hardly spot which has not been burned
| over. The actual money loss from fires
in the past twenty-five years is more than
| S25, O00,00G, and l regard this as a conserv-
alive estimate
/. Mature timber must be cut in order to
! insure a new supply, in the same manner
/ that fruits are picked from the trees each
! year. Trees do not live forever, but ma
| ture and die, becoming menace to
! younger growths. Under scientific for
/ estfy laws only mature timber would be
| cut, leaving all trees of a girth less than
| standard to develop and furnish 6 supply
/ for succeeding years. There is absolutely
/ no reason why pine forest Should not
| produce successive crops of timber,
| just as fruit trees produce fruit, If they
were properly managed.
I'VE lumbermen are not the danger Of
| lhO PAiiO ioi0Sto diGiit. AL present there
| is no possible doubt but that the states
| resources in pine timber will be depleted
| within fifteen years at the present rate
| of cutting, but this might be checked and
| even prevented by wise action On the
| part of the state and, national govern-
| meEts We are forced to cut timber
which ought to be left standing for the
reason that there Is no assurance If we
! do not, that, in the following season. we
1 will f1Rd our pine standing. Fires sweep
| over the timber lands every year. and
| force us to save ourselves from damage
| by cutting all of our holdings. The re-
1 spensible luTnbermen of the state will
| place no obstacle in the way OF the es-
! Enlistment OF park. We could only
/ wish that for reasons which 1 have emu
| merated the area might be enlarged to
| include all our holdings and protect our
4 interests. The establishment OF a park
| under government control will Insure us
i at least barrier between the eastern
| and western parts of the state, through
which fires cannot sweep. This alone
! should enlist the aid OF every Minnesota
iumbeTman."
DIR. SCHENCK TALKS.
While on a recent tour of the park re-
| gion with Hon. Henry 8. Fitch, of Chi
cago; Col. John S. Cooper, F. /. Whitney,
| general passenger agent OF the Great
Northern; Gen. c. C. Andrews state fire
warden; Prof. ]. S. Greene, of the Mime
sofa State A qf}cp]f,1ral col1acp and r p