The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-02-17
FOREST RESERVES.

large measure. Col. Allen Miller.
State Immigration Commissioner,
has written a reply to an address
delivered by Major Frank Fem,
supervisor of reserves in Idaho, be-
fore the Womens' Columbian Club
of Boise. Among other interest
ing things Col. Miller says:
He seems to be of the opinion
that the good Lord planted the
whole arabic earth with trees for
the benefit of the beasts, and the
wild men who live on nuts and ber-
ries and clothe themselves with
nothing, and that civilized man has
no place in the great scheme of the
Creator. HIS lament over the de-
ISOLATE condition of the Ohio valley
since its forests were "defiled by
the lumbermen" would lead one to
believe that he had read Jeremiah's
picture of the desolation of Jerusa
lem. He had however, a great ad-
vantage over the old white-haired
seer. Jeremiah wept over dis
believing, unsympathetic audience
700 years before the stereopticon of
time threw his picture on the actual
canvas, while Major Fenn's pict-
ure was of the present. resulting
from sins committed away back in
the misty past. -.
1.-The Ohio valley 100 years ago
was vast forest, standing in the
stateliness of its own loneliness, in
habited by wild and ferocious ami
mails and few tribes of red men,
whose only badge of progress was a
breechclout. At this time we are
informed by the Major that these
forests were undefiled by the lum-
bermen, who afterwards denuded
the valley of its trees. There never
was a lumoerman in the Ohio val.
ley in the sense the Major wants tc
be understood. The pioneers o.
those days attacked these stately
forests, rolled them into heaps and
set fire to them, and thus opened
the way for progress and civliza
ton. And today the Ohio valley
from Carlo to Cincinnati, is VERT
bic garden. Dotted with the hap
Ply homes of millions of American
citizens, interspersed with cities ane
towns where civilization, cultur,
and Christianity mingle their sweets
and their joys to felicitate and up
lift the lives of all. In that vale,
one may travel from Cincinnati t
Pittsburg, and even beyond, ant
not be out of sight of some grea
chimney stacks whose clouds @
smoke obscure the heavens bear
ing on their fluffy wings the joyou
songs of the workers beneath
There stands a great iron furnac
with its attendant rolling mill, turr
ing Cut steel rails by the millio
and structural steel in tons witt
out number; yonder a great ma
factory, whose modest anceste
made the first wire nail in the worl
here tile factory, whose beaut
full conceptions pave the floor
every palace in the west, there
great boundary, whose heatir
stoves are familiar in almost evel
home in the land; yonder a gre
machine shop with its labyrinth
FORCES and furnaces, an army
skilled workes, whose handiwol
In the shape OF locomotives has
ready awakened the echoes on
beria's expansive plains, and 20
der, and within sight, another gre
shop where they forge out Il
mighty implements of war who
brazen tongues never speak exec
in defense of liberty.
Would the Major blot all this o
and go back to the forest, the wi
beast and the breechclout?
1.-THE doeful and desolate pictr
of the Ohio valley did not gu
fetch the Women's Club The N
jor perceived that something mt
was necessary and to clinch the
he touched the slide in his ma,