The San Francisco call., 1904-12-03
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timber tracts, on consideration that the parties
obtaining such assistance shall pay at least
the field expenses of the experts employed in
preparing the plans. The State Forester snaii
publish all necessary notices to warn tourists
hunters and fishermen concerning the nre regu-
lations.
There shall be an Assistant State Forester
to draw $500 a year The State Forester
shall be the chief fire warden OF the State
There shall be ten district fire wardens. 10 pe
psi9 % sloo0 year each, the salaries 10 hS Dv
PAID one-half by the state and one-nan py
the counties composing the districts. The DIS
trict hre wardens shall be appointed by the
state Forester and be subject to removal Dy
him. The fire wardens shall devote their en-
tire time to State forest interests. shall take
prompt measures to prevent ana eAtlhsuisl sin
Forest fires and keep records concernlns
the extent of damage by fires. Each district
hre warden shall appoint In sueh huinDers s
public spirited citizens to act voluntary
nrt wardens, who shall promptly report All
fires 10 the fire wardens and take prompt
steps to extinguish the fires, the rate or pay
being 70 cents an hour for the time actuAny
employed, provided that $50 year snah DC
the limit OF pay. Supervisors and rangers on
the Federal forest reserves may be appointed
voluntary fire wardens and have all the pow
ers given to fire wardens.
Fire wardens shall have the powers OF police
officers. and fire warden shall be liable TO
civil action for trespass while in the perform
ance OF his duty. All fire wardens shall nave
power to call upon all able-bOdied citizens be
tween the ages of 16 and 50 years for assist
ance in putting out forest fires and refusal 10
serve snall render the person refusing laple 10
penalty OF $16 to be collected in action Tor
debt by the State In times and localities OF pc
culiar fire danger the State Forester may main
tam nre patrol as the public interest may re
quire one-half OF the expense OF such control to
be paid by the county interested and one-haH
by the State. A fire patrol may be main
tained on the forest lands of corporations or in
diyiduals, two-thrds OF the expense to be PAID
by the corporations individuals and one
third by the State
A penalty of not less than $50 more than
SoOOo or Imprisonment from thirty days TO nye
years is provided for maliciously or negligently
setting fire causing fire to be set TO any
brush, prairies grass stubble grain any
land not his own, for allowing any fire 10
escape from his own land TO that OF neigh
Dor, causing injury destruction TO another
property. Penalties are also provided for negh
gence in camp fires Between May Is and the
hrst soaking rains Of the wet season 1T shall be
uhlaWful TO burn brush, stumps logs, falen
timber, fallows. grass or forest covered land
or TO blast wood with dynamite. powder or
other explosive, or to set of fireworks or any
kind in forest brush covered land either on
one own property or on the property OF an
other; without written permission OF and under
the direction and supervision OF the district
nre wardens. Logging locomotives, donkey or
threshing engines, railway locomotives and all
otner engines, boilers and locomotives operated
in through or near forest. brush grass lands.
that do not burn OIL as fuel shall be provided
and fire.
A fine of $25 to $1,000 and Imprisonment OF
not less than fifteen days more than three
years is provided for cutting injuring or de-
other, or of the State, or of the United States
or upon any public highway. Civil damages
are provided for trespess on the forest lands OF
the State, the United States. the county or
individuals. Counties and railways shall re-
move all brush. grass and inhammable ma
terials from the roads or rights Of way.
County Boards of Supervisors shall be author
lied TO appropriate money for purposes Of for
est protection, improvement and management
provided that such sums shall not in any one
year exceed per cent of the assessed value
of the county property.
Consideration of this bill was not
reached until the evening session. In
the morning Chief Justice Beatty, act
ing as president of the association, read
an annual report, in which he reiterated
his statements of last year to the eff
feet that, referring to the failure in the
Legislature of what is known as 1.-The
Works bill" he never considered any
radical change in existing laws regu-
lating the acquisition and use of water
rights essential to the attainment of the
main objects of this association" JUS
tice Beatty also reviewed the transac-
tions of the year, and said that he was
happy to feel assured that there is no
abatement of public interest and no
jealousy or opposition to the efforts we
are making He further said:
The laws enacted and proposed for the pur-
pose OF averting the denudation OF forests
are the result Of strongly aroused public
sentiment and the general conviction Of all
VINO nave seriously considered the subject is that
the policy is wise and of vital Importance and
insures popular support of legislation Of the
character which, in the more highly civilized
countries of the world, has proved that forests
may not only be preserved, but extended at
the same time that they are yielding a hand
some profit TO those who have been instructed
in the science OF forestry.
No new plan of the revision of laws govern
ing the acquisition and exercise of water rights
has been formulated and published. Therefore
there is nothing to be laid before the conven-
tion except the expediency of again presenting
the Works bill in its original or in some modi-
fed form My own opinion, as you aware,
is that IL is not the true policy of this asso-
citation to engage in any effort to revise the
water laws of the State. What is most urgent
ly needed is thorough investigation of existing
and natural conditions in order 70 obtain the
data from which It may be determined to what
extent the storage of flood waters for irriga-
tiUn and other uses is economically feasible
ami in what manner the destruction OF our
forests by fire and other causes may be pre-
vented.
Such investigation has been actively carried
on during the last two years by officers of the
Federal Government. the expense being partly
betrayed out OF the appropriation of sec. 600