The Colorado statesman., 1909-08-21
FOREST RESERVE
REVISION ASKED
IN SENATOR PATTERSON'S RESO-
LUTON RECOMMENDED BY
THE COMMITTEE.
FREIGHT QUESTION is UP
SAN ANTONIO NEXT MEETING
PLACE OF TRANSMISSISSIP9I
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.

Denver-The News Frid2y morning
thus epitomizes the work of the Trans
mississippi Commercial Con + es
I thursday:
The resolutions committee of the
Transmississippi Congress unanimous
ly adopted resolutions presented by
former Senator T. NJ. Patterson. They
outline the Vests policy on forest re-
serves and suggest solution of the
entire problem.
The committee adopted resolutions
denouncing freight determinations in
the Transmississippi regions, advocat-
ing reasonable rates between the sea
board and the Transmississippi terri
tory and calling on representatives in
Congress from the West to urge lcgis-
lation that will prevent discrimina-
tions.
San Antonio is chosen as the meet
ing place for the congress in 1910.
Twenty thousand view fireworks at
City Park in honor of the Congress.
Night session postponed until today
so that delegates could attend.
Senator Teller criticises Pinchot's
policy at meeting of resolutions COM
mittee.
The dove of peace hovered over the
Transmississippi Congress yesterday,
and the conservation question, which
had threatened factional division, was
harmoniously adjusted through the
medium of resolutions offered by for
mer Senator T. NJ. Patterson, clearly
outlining the Vests position and pro-
viding way for the permanent set
tlement of the entire problem.
The resolutions warp received nv
the congress as a happy solution of
a controversy that within the last few
days has been the cause of deep anx-
iety to President Taft and promised
for a time to disrupt the congress.
The result was that the resolutions
committee, at a meeting held in the
convention hall at the Albany hotel
last night, unanimously adopted the
Patterson resolutions, and they will
go before the convention today.
Friends and foes of the forest re-
serve policy were unanimous last
night in declaring that the resolutions
paved the way for complete and har-
monious program, which could be sup
ported by both sides and which would
lead ultimately to a forest policy upon
! which all sections of the nation could
unite. The resolutions are as follows:
Recognizing that the chief of the
Forestry Bureau, with other distin-
guished scientists, after thorough
official consideration of the questions
involved, admitted that the bounda-
ries of forest reserves were laid down
roughly for the want of typographical
and economical surveys, and that it
is impossible to establish them scien-
tifically for the want of such surveys,
And, further, that when the houn-
daries were established it was with
the idea that they would be modified
as soon as it was possible to deter
mine accurately what portions were
more valuable for the production of
minerals and for agriculture and graz
ing;
"And further, that lands more valu-
able for mining, for agriculture and
grazing should be taken from the for
est reserve as soon as it is practicable,
and that that part of the public do
main which has been reserved or
which may be reserved, should be ac-
curately surveyed and carefully
mapped be it, therefore
Resolved, That in line with the rec
concentrations of the said official and
distinguished scientists, we urge upon
Congress the enactment of law that
will authorize the President to ap-
point a commission to be composed of
government officials, with two persons
not connected with the public service,
whose duty it shall be to determine,
with the aid of actual surveys and
such other examinations as shall be
found necessary, the boundaries of
those parts of the public domain which
should be retained permanently by the
government as forests, and that upon
its recommendation the President
should be authorized to open all other
lands to entry and sale, and further
quate appropriations to promptly car
ry the provision of such law into ef-
feet. And be it further
Resolved, That pending such ac-
ton by Congress, the President of the
United States is respectfully request
ed to exercise the executive authority
vested in him under the act of June
4, 1897, in eliminating from forest re-
serves, when he can, lands not con.
templated by the forest reserve acts;
and be it further
Resolved, That we approve the
work and policy of the United States
forest reserve, in so far as it is pro-
tecting the timber resources of the
country and the watersheds of our
rivers and other streams, to the end
that the disastrous effects of floods
may be minimiZed and water con-
served for irrigation and power pur-
poses"
Wrghts Sue Patent Vioiators.
New York--Wilhur and Oryille