Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-22
FOREST SUPERVISOR
 HAS DOUGLAS OFFICE
Big Establishment That Has Charge of Thousands of
 Acres.

the immigration Oh1ce-and nearly as important-has this week removed to Douglas. Few people realize that the supervisor of the forest service who is even today putting down carpets in his new office in the First National bank building has control absolutely of 100000 plus 150,000 of Arizona acres which are valuable enough to keep one staff of men protecting them from invaders and another observing them in the service of science. The scientists and the protectors and may be the invaders, too, will hereafter center in Douglas, as the metropolis of southeastern Arizona
 Compelled to Come Here.
 We moved to Douglas because we simply couldn't stay away" said Su- pervisor Charles T. McGlone, while his floors were being scrubbed yes terday. We had our little office in Paradise. on the edge of the Chiri- cahua forest reserve and not far from the Peloncillo reserve. Mouldy ham and mouldy bread for our meals, pre- posterous prices for all our business with Washington and all the incon- Veniences, meannesses and drawbacks of the remote mountain town were what We met in Paradise and so we came down to the biggest, most mod ern city we could find-Douglas. En- tomolOgists and inspectors fro ID Washington, rangers from the forests, and the thousand and one people with whom the office does business will hereafter looks for us in Douglas.
 Objects of Forestry.
 The ChiriCahua reservation begins not more than fifteen miles northeast of Douglas and includes, of course, the finest timber in Arizona. l have half dozen rangers under me keep ing it intact and in perfect condition. Anybody may use the forest lawfully for hunting or grazing, that is, or by carrying away the dead timber. On the other hand the penalties for chop ping down live trees are strict and iuescapable.
 Preservation of a timber area for future generations is only one of the objects of this strict government con trOl. Forests have a vital part in ir- rigatiOn-the hope of millions of acres in Arizona which need only water to make them bloom, not exactly like the rose. but with cabbages and on ions and alfalfa and wheat. So we are saving the means Of giving water by and by to that arid valley you see through the window.
 Storing the Moisture.
 Natures method of saving water by the forests is easily explained and perfectly adjusted to the needs of this country. Forestry men are posted here to save the present generation from cutting off prosperity from their children and their children's children The floor of every virgin forest is simply mat of layer on layer of de composed foliage. The mat acts as a sponge to the rainfall, storing it up and letting it off bit by bit to the valleys below. Burn of the mat or cut away the trees whose leaves have builded it and the rain bounds of the hard adobe soil and reaches the thir- sty plain below in a flood-a flood that washes away the crops or drowns them. When man by irrigation dams learns to extend natures process of storing and directing the rainfall you have the pleasing spectacle of man working intelligentIy in the harness with nature-which is nothing but the end and aim of all science.
 Tt is curious what an awakening the United States government has had on the subject of forests. When first entered the service nearly a dog en years ago the job was more or less-more than less-a joke. 1 lived in the east and man in my town got the appointment of forest super visor in northern New Mexico as a political favor. He wanted me to go along for company and I got ranger appointment at a good salary from my congressman in that spirit.
 Mastered Nature Study.
 But after four or five years of quiet enjoyment of life up in the New Mexican woods I woke up. l saw that someone must do some hustling in the forestry service or get out. So went to work I studied botany In all it's branches and I worked hard in ma lures laboratory. The forestry depart ment in Washington had come to the point of rewarding good workers and getting rid of poor ones, and it was not long before I became a chief of rangers and later a forest supervisor. The work fascinated me the moment put hard work into it, and now there is no job in the United States 1 want instead of this one.
 Graft? No, there is little danger of any repetition of the Oregon timber frauds in the Arizona forests for sew eral reasons. In the first place we have not the immense forestry re sources of Oregon, so there isn't any temptation Then it is not such an easy matter to graft in any depart ment of the government as it was four or more years ago. We have string of protections of one kind or another about the Arizona forests through which it would Dc pretty hard for any would-be grafter to break"
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