Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-26
HEAD OF THE FOREST SERVICE WILL COME TO THE TER
 RITORIAL FAIR
WITH MERDo MCKENZIE HE WILL ADDRESS THE CATTLE GROW
 FRS ASSOCIATION
Government Official Will Be Shown the Natural Resources of This Magnif- cent Commonwealth by Fair Associa tion and Stockmen.

During fair week Phoenix will have as visitor Clifford Pinchot, head of the United States forest service, says the Arizona Gazette. Mir. Pinchot, as pre- viously announced in the Gazette, comes as the guest of the Arizona Cattle Growers association. He will address the stoekmen upon the occasion of their annual convention. J. J. Riggs, presi- dent of the association, has the matter of the entertainment of the distin- guished man under consideration, and in a few days, when D. B. Heard re- turns from his summer vacation, will begin the preparation of a detailed pro gram.
 It is not his intention that Mir. Pin. chot shall miss seeing anything of our great valley. Even though his plans are not yet made, he states that the guest shall see the Granite Reef and Roosevelt projects, for they are the greatest things we have to show. Then he will be taken north to inspect Ari zona' 8 forest reserves, particularly the White mountain and Grand Canyon re- serves.
 There is no discounting the tremen- dous significance of MT. Pinchot s visit He is beyond question the closest man to the president in the government ser vice. He is intrusted with what Mir Roosevelt considers one of the greatest tasks of his administration: the regula- tion of the forest reserves. Those on the inside at Washington freely state that Pinehot would long ago have re- ceived the appointment as secretary of agriculture, had it not been for the fact that the forests cannot safely be turned over to anyone else just at present. Their regulation has not been aeocm- plished.
 President Riggs and the Cattle Growers association are entitled to a great deal of credit for bringing MT, Pincrot to Arizona. We need men like him to come here and see that this is not the wild, untenable dried up eoun- | try that it has been painted.
 In regard to the present widespread attention attracted by the forestry de partment, the Literary Digest in re- cent number says:
 It has been predicted that the keen est battle of the coming congress will be fought between the supporters and the opponents of the administration < public land policy. The forces have been organizing for the battle, it is said, ever since last spring, when the president, in the face of congressional opposition, withdrew an additional if teen and half million acres from sale or entry. The sentence of ten years imprisonment and a fine passed last week in San Francisco upon John A Benson and E. B. Perrin, convicted of stealing public lands, brings the whole subject just now into notice, as do a number of recent magazine arti cles. Hundreds of others are under indictment for the same offense-an of fense which, as the Chicago Journal remarks, for years passed as almost no offense at all, although the man who steals public land "steals from every one of the inhabitants of the United States" It is interesting to note that the sentences passed upon Benson and Perrin meet with the general approval of the press. "There has been too much leniency in the past, ' remarks the Chi cago Tribune. The Post of the same city asserts that most of the opposition to the president s public land policy has it's roots in the "get-rich-quick' " spirit the spirit of "spendthrift enterprise that would denude the country for i'm mediate big returns and "let the future look out for itself.'