, 1907-04-29

unless in some big desert country
where there are no settlers inside,
thouh a number of settlers all around
the area in question-and when the set
tiers themselves choose to apply the
permit. But the intention of the presi-
dent n the department was to ZEN
even such areas by the acre to a syndi-
cate of actual settlers of the vicinity,
and let them arrange a per capita tax
if they SO desire. My information upon
is not guesswork or hearsay, but
from the lips Of President Roosevelt
and Forester Pinchot in personal on
cersation.
Differs From Forest System.
"The reasons that exist for permit
systems in forest reserves do not OBJ
tain as to the general public lands. The
forest reserves are practically taken
out of the open public domain and are
to be retained as reserves for growing
timber, and no great number of settlers
are liable to settle therein, hence per
capita permits seem TO be about the
only way to handle the matter, where
is a constant invitation to settlers. All
of the leaseholders would be supposed
to be settlers, or to have their head
quarters adjacent to or in the area
rented; int hence the easiest, best, and
only just way is to lease by the acre.
The open public domain is not like the
water-or a forest reserve practically,
~inseparable body of expected or actual
timber growth.
Sheepmen and the Forests.
GAS to forestry: l regret that the
sheepmen have thought it best to pro-
test against forestry and forest re-
serves as such, and l speak as a sheep
man myself, believing that l have been
a continuous owner longer than any
ether man living within the state
of Wyoming. To undertake at this
time to do away with forest reserves
is futile in the extreme, because, what
ever we in wyoming may think, nearly
every state in the union, east and west,
and more especially east Int south, be-
lieves ardently in the cultivation and
protection of the forests. Therefore,
members of congress from the more
populous sections of the country will
invariably be for forestry, claiming that
the public lands are as much the prop
erty of the eastern states as of the
western states, and they feel at liberty
to vote their views whether or not they
agree with their western brothers.
Fails to Find the Text.
Il notice some of the resolutions
adopted by our sheep and wool associa-
tons state the following:
"+ that is a u%surpation of
virtue of the constitution
Il have read the state constitution in
vain to find the text for this. To the
contrary l find the following in section
8 of the ordinances, which are declared
to be ~irrevocable without the consent
of the United States and the people of
the state:
1.-THE people %inhabiting this state do
agree and declare that they forever dis
claim all right and title to the unap.
%propriated public lands lying within the
borders thereof etc.
Diplomacy Is Needed.
THE resolutions of the National
Wool Growers association were more
moderate, and l am of the opinion that
thoughtful, fair and conservative
will go much farther in aiding us to
obtain desired conditions han the hos
tility sought to be inflamed by some of
our local or state men or associations.
Unfortunately, historians and doc
trinaries have for many decades, enron.
eously, l think, been recording the raw
ages that sheep have made upon forests
in the old countries-Spain and others
and therefore it is something of an
uphill pull to get larger privileges in
forest reserves, or even to maintain
what we have. .
so it is possible that a little more
diplomacy and a little less 'rambunc-
tiousness' should be recommended, if
relief is what we wish, and We wish to
retain what We have and proceed to get
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