The Delta independent., 1908-01-10

rests the foundtion and perpetuity
of all governments, and with the
very birth of our Nation there arose
the necessity of laws to encourage
the same, and
Whereas, our National Congress
has heroically met the requirements
of the times by the enactment of
those all-wise Land Entry laws,
which have produced our rich COM
munities, our great commonwealths
and the most powerful nation on
earth, and in its wisdom passed law
placing it in the prerogative of the
President of United States to set
aside and proclaim Forest Reserves
and giving 10 the Department of
Agriculture, power to establish legit-
innate regulations to control and
preserve the same from waste and
destruction, and
Whereas, with the changing con-
ditions coming with the rapid set
, tlement and increased population of
our Public Lands Territory, there
has been constantly growing ne
cessity for some additional laws of
control and there has interviewed a
late Act of Congress temporarily sus-
pending the operation of this law
thereby subjecting a very large por-
tion of our forest timbers and water
conservatories to this waste and des-
,ruction, and
Whereas, the resources of ALL our
Public Domain so increased in value
as to become constant bone of con-
tention and local criminal nuisance
and are being desecrated and des-
troyei for the want of control. and
these resources should be a source
OF Ie;urns to the entire people of
the Unitel States. and
Nhe,eas the large majority of the
users of these resources are ready
and willing to pay for them and re-
ceiNe the proper protection in the
Same ard
Whereas. the Forest Reserve
policy of controlling the resources of
, the Public Domain is effective in
primarily fostering the rights of the
Homeseeker, prohibiting the waste of
timbers and destruction of water
Conservatives, checking the selfish
diversion of water courses from pub
lie use to private. protecting the
grazing rights of the home-maker
against the monopolist and nomad
and above all turning the warning
elements of misuse to that of busi-
ness system and prosperity, and
Whereas. the everlasting termina-
tion of a Public Domain without con-
troll in these United States is dire
necessity. now therefore. be it
Resolved. that we. the Delta
County Live Stock Association in
convention assembled, unanimously
approve of the law providing for the
establishment of Forest Reserves and
their extension. and endorse the
present Government control of For
est Reserves and the administration
policy of improving this control. so
as to. at all times. preserve the land
capable of reclamation for agricul-
tural purposes unto the settler. and
Offering the use of the same to users,
/ subject to these conditions, upon such
favorable yearly terms as will induce
the constant Improvement by the
user of the land. timber, water sup
ply and grass and merely pay for
its ecouomcal administration.
That w are unalterably opposed
to any interior ence, whatsoever, with
any equitable regulation to provide
Just control of our Forest Reserves.
and that we most heartily en-
dorse the Administration policy OF
+ having law established to con-
troll the grazing upon other pub
lie land by giving exclusive
possession to individuals. with
right to fence If desired, limit
ing the number of live stock to be
grazed so as to preserve the range
and equitably apportion 1t 10 appli-
cants for occupancy, leaving It sub
iect at ALL TIMES to appropriation
by settlers under the land laws now
IN force.
Resolved. that copy of these
resolutions be mailed to the State