Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-17

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capital for starting home? He is
either in Jail or gone to Canada, for Mr.
Pinchot has enacted under rule AZ, that
driving stock across a reserve without
permit is crime punishable by both
fine and Imprisonment.
Exactly the same crime is committed
if he settles or squats upon lands within
the reserves, according to the second
paragraph of this outrageous rule. 1t,
not only outrageous, but usurpation
of authority so grave that it ought to
make the blood in the veins of every
American. citizen tingle with indigna
ton. Of course, the man in the canvass
covered wagon can't wait for the I'M
travelling of this tangled spool of red
tape. If he has not allowed his indig
nation to get the better of him, he
slips off to Canada.
Driven Into Canada.
/ myself, while in Kootenai county
last August, Il think it was August,
saw string of some seven or eight of
these covered wagons with a family
of from three to seven in each, on their,
way to that country. They came to-
Kootenai county to settle, in fact had,
had their locations picked out; but the
sign was up, No settlers need apply.
so they went on to Canada. Since that
time two other reserves have been
marked out in that county; one of, them
embracing the incorporated town ..of
Boomers Ferry, containing population
of 300 people. a.
,..,s.But look at your own county. 1t
contains 6, GIT, $40 acres of land. 1t is
greater in extent than some of the
kingdoms of Europe, being more than
two thirds as large as Switzerland with
it's 5000, 900 people, and more mountains
by far than Idaho county, which has
only $1,000 inhabitants; yet more than
four-ffths of it is taken in forest re-
serve. And the Pinchot Pet, our own
sweet-scented Dubois, bends the preg-
nant hinges of the knees rises in his
place in the senate and declares that
less than one-tenth of one per cent of
the lands in these reserves is agricul-
tural lands
1.-The FIVE northern counties of the
state contain Ia, 773, 210 acres. In these
counties we have already appropriated
from the public domain 3, 744, 287 acres,
including the timber lands and also in
GLIDING 325, 900 acres selected by the
state under the various congressional
grants, made to the state at the time
of its admission into the Union, and
which. is very close to one-half of the
whole grant, leaving in the FIVE north
ern counties in round numbers II, 900, 900
acres, practically all of which is now in
forest reserves.
How About Dubois Figures?
'Now, if the statement of Senator
Dubois be true that less than one-tenth
of one per cent Of these reserves, is
agricultural land, you will observe that
we have left in the five northern coun-
IlSS 1883 Cndll IL, OOV dSlco III IOl eiSli-
cultural purposes-less than half a
township.
''Mr Mcbride, the able and affable
president of the state commission of
the Lewis and Clark exposition, esti-
mates that the people of this state
spent at the Portland fair and in going
to and from it over $500, 900. The state
itself spent $40, 900 for the purpose of
advertising the resources of Idaho and
it's great opportunities for home max
ing.
my predecessor in this office pre-
pared and published a report exceed
ingly we'll written and splendidly illus
trated, in which he set forth the re-
sources and ii, opportunities in most
excellent form. Thirty-fve Thousand
copies of this report have been circu-
lated in the states east of the Rocky
mountains, inviting the landless tt
come here and get cheap homes. II
Senator Dubois statement made in the
senate of the United States be true
this book is bundle of vile misrepre
sensations and ought to have been de
MED the United States mails. Mr.
Egleston ought to have been prosecuted
for the crime of false pretence anC
your humble servant should be indicted
with him for circulating the book. Blu
his statement is not true. He is tn,
slanderer and not we.
Vast Areas Forming Land.
''There is line of decisions in tn,