The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
PRESIDENT WILL
TALK ON FORESTS
Modern Forestry to Be Thoroly
Discussed at Big Congress
at Capital.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Modern for
estry, and it's relation to the material
progress and welfare Of the United
States, is to be thoroly discussed by ex-
perts in all branches, scientific and prac
tlcal, at the American forest congress
to be held here next week, the sessions
beginning on Tuesday. The program
embraces papers and addresses by men
high in official business and scientific
circles.
President Roosevelt, ardent believer
in the preservation of the forests, who
has impressed that belief upon congress
and the nation in messages and speeches,
will deliver an address on Thursday.
The subject will be 8 The Forest in tho
Life of a Nation.
Big Names on Program.
Ambassador Jusserand, the French
liver an address on "The Forest Policy
Of France,D Howard Elliott, president
of the Northern Pacific railway, on
|s'Dependence Of the Business Interests
Upon Forests. - F. E. Weyerhaeuser,
Jr., or Mr.. Mccormick of the
Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, on
"The laundering Interests and
the Forests'; and President
James J. Hill of the Great North
ern railway will discuss "The Rail
roads and the Forests
Other addresses on the relation Of the
forests to irrigation, to the livestock
interests, to agriculture and as re-
source Of the south, will be delivered
| by Senators Bard, Warren and Sim
mons, and Representative Lamb of Vir-
ginia. ..- .. ...-.
The Four Days Program.
The subject for the afternoon Of the
first day is the Importance of the
Public Forest Land to Irrigation
Engineers of the reclamation service
will be the chief speakers, together with
representative Of the national irriga-
| tion association and Congressman Mon
dell of Wyoming.
"The Lumber Industry and the
Forests will be the subject for the
morning of the second day, at which
editor of the Review Of Reviews; Vic
tor H. Beckman, editor Pacific Lumber
Trade Journal; Colonel George P. Emer-
son, vice president Of the Northwestern
Lumber Company. of, Washington;
James T. Barber, president of the Bar.
Der Lumber company Of Wisconsin, and
Others The afternoon will be devoted
to the relation and Importance of the
public forest lands to grazing, at which
Professor L. II. Panel of the Iowa. state
college will discuss sheep grazing in the
man, and Fred P. johnson, secretary of
the National Livestock association. will
talk of the advantages of cooperation
between the government and the stock
men 8 association in the regulation OF
grazing. s
Railroads and Forestry.
"Railroads in Relation to the For
ests.' will be the subject on the .thire
men will speak. Herman Won Schrendk
| of the bureau Of forestry, will tell about
extensive experiments in the preserva
tive treatment of railroad timbers tt
prolong durability. The afternoon ses
, sion will be the one at which Presiden
Roosevelt and others named above vii
deliver addresses. L...,.
The morning session Of the last day.
will be devoted to the Importance o:
public forest lands to mining, at whlcl
Captain Seth Bullock, supervisor, Of tn
Black Hills forest reserve, and T. }
Grier, superintendent of the Home
stake mines in South Dakota, will rea'
papers.
"The National and State Forest Pc!
icy,' will be discussed at the conclud
ing session, at which the chiefs of al
the bureaus having to do with fo9estr.
work and management, forest lands
etc., will tell about their respectiv
shares in the administration Of the fol
estry law.
, Northwestern Delegates.
That the coming congress has at
tracted wide attention among people i
all callings in which forestry cuts eve
q remote figure is shown by the Ion
list of delegates, and others who wi
attend the congress. Those from Mil
q nesota and adjoining states who hay
. slgnltied an Intention OF attending II
E Glide these representatives Of the NH
: Bramhall of st. Paul, G. NJ. Loring c
9 Minneapolis, and Samuel B. Green an
y William T. Cox of St. Anthony Parl
0 Captain Seth Bullock supervisor Of tn
6 Black Hills forest reserve, and j.:
Seely, supervisor Of reserves in MOI
l. tana, will also be present. The MINI
l. sofa state delegation, named by go
0 ernor Van SAINT, includes General G.
= Andrews, state fire warden;- c.. N: Lo
:. ing and Samuel R. Thayer,- Mrs. Villa
IS Cooper of st. Cloud; O. NJ. Lord, Mi
t, nesota City; Fred Weyerhaeuser, M. n
. Williams, Little Falls; S. NJ. Owen, A.
l. Wedge, Albert Lea; Charles Cristadol
,e and l.. P. Williams. From South D.
= lzota Professor n. p: Hansen Of tt
is state agricultural college, P. J. Bent
= of Woonsocket and Major c. Boy
Is Barrett Of Aberdeen are the accredite
20 delegates, and from Montana c. J; M
a er Of Helena; Edgar Gibson Of ely!
8 Park and Thomas Greenough of Mi