The Ordway new era., 1908-10-02
FOREST POLICY
IS DENOUNCED
"'NSho' SToCkMEN AND FARM.
tRs ATTACK MANAGEMENT
OF RESERVES.
AT DENVER MEETING
CLAIM IT DRIVES OUT PRospFc.
TORS, RoRs srockmEN AND
cRIFPLEs IRRIGATION


'ne most bitter ever given any govern.
','h' representative in Denver took
pace saturday afternoon when the
forestry system was called "a chcop
Erait' an unmitlgated curse to Colo.
T"do' It's employees incompetent graft.
IT'S III tn" presence OF a. +. Potter.
-h''l ot III" grazing department of the
forestry Bureau and personal repro.
sentative of Clifford Plnchut, chief OF
tn" Forestry Service.
The three great Industries OF the
state, stockraising. mining and irrlga.
'loh all Joined in the common attack
upon tho forestry system. To add to
IN" strength of the statements. many
OF the most prOmincnt men in the
state were speakers Sen. Henry NJ.
Teller, Judge d c. Bcaman, counsel
ior the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com.
pany' Charles d. Hayt. the well known
mining attorney OF this city: Col. Ed
= brown. George Bancroft. a mining
engineer; Mr. Myers Of breckenridge.
state Senator f. NJ. Ammons of Little
ton, all took an active part in de-
nouncing the system
Mr.. Potter answered each question
that was brought in a more or less sat.
! isiactory manner
The meeting. which was held before
tn" forestry committee OF the Cham
bcr Of Commerce. presided over by its
chairman. w. \. Hover. and Gen. Irv-
ing Hale. adjourned at o'clock after
four hours OF discussion with nothing
Gciinitc done. 1t was at first suggested
| by W. G. NJ Stone. president of the
| state Forestry Association. that the
meeting adjourn until Mr. PlnChot
could come To Denver himself. Scna-
| tor AmmOns in . sizzling speech pro-
tested against this. which he said was
an effort to dodge the issue by the
| Chamber of Commerce. and by taking
no action indorsC its resolution com
Intending the Forestry Service in
| everything that it has done. He said
this resolution, to which Senator Tel
Ter also referred rather bitterly. mis-
represented the mining and aEricul-
tural interests Of the state.
The specific charges made by those
| protesting against the forestry sys-
TEN were: That 1t was driving pros
| pectors out of the state: that it was
! holding up thrcc-fourth of the mining
claims on which patents were asked.
though dodging responsibility through
| the land office when an explanation
was asked; that 1t is driving saw-mill
owners out of business; that II was
forcing stOCkmcn to pay taxes for
benefits which they never receive;
| that ii was Gripping the irrigation in
tcrests of the state by claiming owner
shin OF all water on the reserves; in
short. that it is stopping development
of the greatest interests of the state
and making Investment OF capital
dangerous venture while the CONNER.
Cial bodies of Denver are spending
thousands of dollars in advertising re-
sources which cannot be developed be-
cause of the Forestry Service. Many
su.called absurd provisions, such as at
tempting to regulate the state game
laws. enforcing the eight-hour day,
and making "maa an outlaw" rs far
as certain rights are concerned. when
he violates a provision of the forestry
system were roasted.
In regard to irospectors, Mr.. HaNt
said that for them the Forest Service
lines are dead lines. They refuse to
prospect on a government forest re-
serve. said Mr. llayt, because they do
not know and cannot find out the
rules of the bureau and would not
know but that they would be changed
from day to day, if they did.
before the forest reserves were set
aside. he instanced, there were fifty
nrospcctors in the Summtville sec
lion. according to information received
by Mr.. Hayt, but now there is not
enc "If the forestry laws had been
,r effect in the e-rly days" concluded
Mr. Hayt, "the state of Colorado. would
never have been developed.
Specific objections were urged by
Mr. Hayt. which Mr.. Potter said ne
would take up with CHIEF Forester
Pipchot. ,
Mr. Potter answered that the raise
in prices marked in the l9oS pook I'D"
not been put in effect and said tha'
the homestead test had been whetner
the land was good for homestead'hs
or not.
I,dpe Beaman cited the increase IN
Grazing fees and the refusal to gran,
patents to homesteaders on iaho use"
for grazing purposes. A. .,,,
Senator Teller emphasized the lae'
that the problem of water is the great
est in the state. He declared that re,
serves should not be created ~ne.e me, :
mining or agriculture is possible. The
hast thing that could happen for
C6Iorado." he said, would be the re-
neal of the forest reserve laws. e une
forest laws" he added, "are such tnal
thev should not be created In ir''e
country or amorg free people