The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-06-03
|TB0IS TO ROOSEVELT
! ON FOREST RESERVE
yqpAcTS FROM SENATOR'S LETTER TO
PRESIDENT ON WASHINGTON AND
BOISE COUNTY RESERVES.

this section. 1t covers consider
able portion of the state wagon road
constructed by the state to enable set
tiers to get into this very country.
This reserve cuts off the Thunder
mountain mining country from the
north by barrier which amounts to
a prohibition against those who de-
sire to operate these mines from that
direction, and they are easier of &C
cess from the north than from any
where else. The reservation covers
large amount of the mining coun-
try now being taken up and settled
about and adjacent to the Thunder
mountain district. To withdraw it
is to paralyze the rapid growth now
going on In that section of the coun-
try.
'"The map furnished me does not
indicate the fact with certainty, but
l believe the proposed reserve covers
the Thunder mountain mining dis
trict and the town of Roosevelt,
which Is one of the most rapidly
growing and prosperous new places
in Idaho. There are several thousand
people in that section of the state,
who went there with the intention of
staying, provided they could have the
rights of settlers in other sections of
the country without being super
vised.
Again my colleague throws facts
TO the wind. In reading the official
objections of my colleague to these
proposed forest reserves l fear that
be has been thinking of Jack o. Lam
terms so much that he constantly uses
them through force and habit.
RESERVES CAREFULLY STUDIED.
Every portion of this reserve has
been traversed and carefully studied
by the most competent examiners OF
the forestry bureau. The timber has
been mapped and photographed and
the only complete and reliable map
of this entire section in existence has
been prepared and will be published
by the forestry bureau. This de-
tailed map shows that so per cent OF
the area is covered with commercial
timber, "a per cent in woodland and
l3 per cent in burned and cut over
forest land which will restock; yet
my colleague asserts it as "fact
that it includes vast quantities OF
land upon which there is no timber.
1t will not interfere at all with
the state wagon road, but will be
protection two it.
The Thunder mountain district
and the town of Roosevelt are ~
miles in an air line from the pro-
posed reserve, and its residents are
not and can not be affected In any
way.
The mining supply station OF war
rem is the only settlement within tne
proposed reserve. 1t is a supply
point and freight station and nothing
but the possible development OF MIN
eraI will ever make any towns, OF
even scattered population, OF any I'M
portance within the area.
sQUAw CREEK DIVISION.
This proposed reserve coltalns
2s5, 7s4 acres aud forms the diyioe
between the Weiser and North ray
cite rivers, and is the source OF muep
Of their tributary water About one
half OF this total area is covered "ipp
commercial forests
While there are large areas oi Ss'l'
cultural aDd timber lands Dofqs'lpK
tho proposed reserve Which have peep
acquired by settlers epd Lumber CON .
panies, 10 tho Tract itself tlle's - py'
llltile moge fhap 1000 se'ey ~ Hf'l
eoltlgal lands, Az tbe sp'foppqlpY
asglnultugnl setilemenp 40 H'l'epP
! sni upop ilmhor hpd patef iion ,'''.' .
mouni Aus, hui n n tlp sellNYf s''|
aso lp M Welael sHllef Fp,'N ~
l,ends egnly plolnoilQp pnaslp'e Np
lnnly M ~ fQlasl lpi n 'H' l'n''
and al0pnd lfselAl|Qp
an M llY lfNNlf neail #e'H'
as10ilosl lAplNif wv ~ "A" '.l
lNlllNlNNlNN ia NHa'ii NN
ltlullNllm NJ HlNNlNlN l''N'Y
lIAl lll.lis NJ ~ le'
ANIlIllf "a l....