The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-05

The forestry department Shouso "
charged with the duty OF clearing up OF
burning or otherwise destroying tops
of trees where they have been cut down
and where the trunks have been taken
away They should also have superVi-
/ sion of the cutting of trees OF certain
sizes and to limit the cutting TO sucn
sizes as would be useful. and let those
remain which are under certain dimen-
sions and which would eventually grow
| up TO larger trees. Many OF these pro
visions are perfectly proper. ana the
| forestry department should be charged
! to do the things therein provided in the
| interest of the government and in the
interest of all the people fhey VIII
| hnd no one to interposs objections TO
them, but they will find the best and
most jealous kind of cooperation OF
every farmer. miner and of every ciu-
zen of that country.
Going Too Far.
But. Mr.. President, they are carry
| ing this matter too far. / would not say
word derogatory to the chief OF the
! forestry division. He is a man of learn
| ing and experience and has been
brought UT as a forester. He under
stands the business thoroughly. He is
entirely enthusiastic about the work,
but | think he should be confined to
4 CtTtitff fCSlIlttlOHS anu ltDt Ut dBONt1
/ TO have too much scope and means with
which i'm the operations OF the forestry
system and of this proposed grazing
proposition. to build IN a system OF
| Iandlordism and tenantry in the Rocky
mountains. as this would be obnoxious
| to all of those people.
Mr.. President, the question of home
s:eads within the forest reserves has
been spoken of. and it has been con-
/ IL,
(Mr. Spoonerl thai the law-snd it Is a
law, and not a regulation-should am
ply protect those who enter into for
est reservation to make homesteads
| My colleague (Ar. Carter always alert
and alive to the interests of the vest
ern country, and particularly TO those
of his own state, secured the passage
of bill at the last session allowing
| homesteads within forest reserves to
be patented. But. Mr. President as has
been truthfuliy stated by the senator
from Colorado (Mr. Patterson). there
is not, in my judgment, and certainly
not to my knowledge. a single home
/ steader or homeseeker who will go in
side of a forest reserve and make q
location. If he were to do so he would
he surrounded by land that is under the
supervision and jurisdiction of the for
est ranged. and if any of his cattle or
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| his Enclosure onto the adjacent public
land he at once would get into trouble
/ with the forest ranger. He will not
take that chance. Besides this. the iso-
lation of his farm. contested use of the
reads and other objectionable features
viii operate against such settlements.
1 Plea for Home-Seeker.
II am satisfied that we ought to do
-.
/ seeker. This is the class the people we
drawals of the public lands of the west
are shutting out the homeseekers the
meE who would go there to make homes
and become useful citizens. The en-
| fOTceme1t of this policy IS driving
] thousands Of settlers to Canada, where
greater advantages are presented to
them than they can obtain in our
country under existing conditions. Now
Il is proposed to repeal the timber and
stone act. when the dominion of the
forester will be complete. and the poor
1 farmer will have no chance TO find q
home.
There was exhibited yesterday by
the senator from Indiana (Nr Bever-
idge) a map showing the Withdrawals
OF forest reserves by the president. and
if it did not escape the attention of the
LDeX nave seen l0dL a large
part OF the western portion of the state
in which l live was marked in green.
desire to say. Mr.. President that
there are large areas of land withdrawn
there which is not timber land at all.
1t would be impossible to make a reser-
walton of several hundred THOUSAND or
a million or more acres Of land in one
district without including a large
amount OF land that is agricultural.
and in many instances the timber
lands, so-called. are very sparsely tim
4 bered, with here and there a tree that
might well serve as an ornament to the
farm of the homesteader OF as a shade
tree in summer time, If he would go in
: there and take a farm. As I said, the
withdrawal of these great areas of land
include large sections. in the small val
1 leys and plateaus amongst the noun
tairs, of purely agricultural land. with
the suggestion OF the senator from
Colorado CMr. Patterson that these
lands should be classified, 1 entirely
agree. save that I would except the
mineral lands from such classification.
The prospector has the privilege OF go
ing anywhere on these reserves to pros
pect for minerals. but if he should find
them, he viii have to submit to a great
amount of red tape in order TO get a
title thereto.
Protest Against Legislation.
Mr.. President, l do not desire to
take Gp the time of the senate with a
long discussion Of these propositions
but I want simply to present in behalf
of the people of the state in which ]
live. and which / in part represent. a
pi otest against the enactment of legis-
lation that would authorize the leasing
out Of the public lands which have been
free to the settlers of the country from
the time of the first settlement al
jamestown. and since the landing OF
the Pilgrims in Massachusetts. All
, through the New England. middle and
J southern states, they have enjoyed the
privilege OF feeding their animals upon
: the public lands and of cutting down
such timber as they needed i'm the de-
!, velopment of their farms and the build
! ing up of treir towns, and when the
. tide of emigration flowed out beyond
the Allegheny mountains into western
Pennsylvania, into Ohio and over into
Indiana and Illinois, and across tn,
! mississippi river into Iowa and Missou-
! ri, and out over the plains to the Rocky
| mountains. whittier the tide was lef