Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1905-01-21
Very Live Issue.

The Omaha Bee of recent date hat
the following regarding the results tha
will be accomplished from the meetini
of the Forestry Congress which met g
Washington last week, as viewed b,
Captain Seth Bullock
Nearly every state in the union wal
represented and the men who made VI
the congress were of the best the differ
ent sections afford, 50 far as real nteres
in and practical knowledge of the sub
ject goes. The scientific side of forestry
found presentation at the hands of it.
ablest students, while perhaps the mos
significant and encouraging feature o.
the whole convention was the coming
together on common ground of the long
time friends of forest preservation and
| the lumbermen who have been for lc
these many years active in denuding the
forests. There has for the last few year,
been growing realization of the need
for wise cooperation by all interests
concerned in forestry and numbering
Never until this convention has the pros
pect for effective working together been
very bright. Now it is assured and the
results must be good. Posterity will
reap the rich interest Of the seed now
being sown, because the land will be
shortly replanted with trees where il
has been ravished of its largesse and
what we have left will be cared for with
that faithfulness and wise supervision
which have been chiefly marked by
their absence in the past.
Gone of the first and most necessary
steps, the convention agreed, is to place
the forest reserves under the control oil
the Agricultural department instead OF
the Interior department, where control
is at present vested. This will be at
once beneficial because of the trained
men who will then have the care OF
these reserves. Trained foresters, work
ing with the slow thoroughness of the
German system, will come later, but at
present the principal thought is to safe
guard what We have and encourage new
growth in every way possible.
"The thought has occurred to me that
eastern men who prate of the forest de-
struction in the west should look about
with keener eyes at home. 1t will not
be at all hard to find instances of at
least thoughtlessness in this matter OF
forest destruction, and taking it all
around We are doing quite well in the
western country Of late. We were a
little slow in waking up, perhaps, but
We haven't dozed much since the bell
was rung on our forenap.
Young Weyhauser, son ofthe lumber
king of the country, read paper at this
congress which showed that he grasps
the significance and the wisdom of this
movement. He proved himself man
Of good ideas and of forceful ability. 1t
means much to the cause when men OF
his class get properly interested and
take hold in earnest to help by their in
fuence and example. His father came
to this country with only his hands and
brain for capital, achieved great sue
cess in the business world, and today his
son follows the president of the United
States on the program of a great con
gress. No other country can offer such
90 .b,t
In the South Dakota forest reserves
Captain Bullock has under his immedi.
ate control ,l25, 900 acres, and with the
assistance of fifteen TO twenty rangers
he has succeeded to high degree ia
preventing and in preserving the forest
growth which for years had suffered at
the hands of unheeding destroyers. In
that country the mines depend on the
forests for their timber and water-both
independent in natures economy
and Captain Bullock now has the active
CO operation of many men who at first
were either actively or covertly hostile
TO the movement for forest preservation