The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-19
"Enemies of Pinchotism" De
clare That They Are Salts
fed With Speakers Ideas,
and Cheer Addresses Justify.
NATIONAL FORESTS ARE
IN NEED OF PROTECTION
Reclamation Urged and Speak
er Outlines Benefits and Fu-
ture Prospects From Water
Reservations,
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED

Denver, Colo, Aug. 18.-Gifford Pin
chot, chief forester of the United States
department Of agriculture. and Thomas
F. Walsh, millionaire mine owner, ex-
changed ben mOts today before the
Trans Mississippi congress, and as a
concluding note in the harmony Of the
session the delegates wound up Mr..
PinchOts address with a round Of ap-
plause that shook the auditorium.
The sO-Called enemies of PinChOt-
ism" said they were satisfied with the
conservation idea OF the speaker and
Joined in the cheering as Justify as did
the adherents Of the chief forester.
Mr.. Walsh, in presenting Mr.. PinchOt,
referred to the latter as a patriotic
young American, who, rich in his own
right, is devoting himself to the service
of his country and whose mistakes, if
there are any, are those of the head and
not the heart.
In return Mr. Pinchot spoke of the
mine magnate as a soldier Of the com
mon good" and wished for more of his
kind. And in this mood the congress
listened with evident satisfaction now
and then punctuated by handclapping.
Conservation Discussed.
Based on the Roosevelt policies" Mr..
as a practical business policy. He said
that the loss or injury of one great
staple viii not only injure that particu-
lar business, but will strike at the heart
OF many allied interests. He paid his
compliments TO Roosevelt and then said
in part:
That the national duty lies in the di-
reCtiOn of conservation there is no
doubt. I can conceive of no higher
plane of duty than that we conserve our
vast resources along the lines of the
Roosevelt policies and to these policies
! am committed.
1T Is folly for US to say there is land
in plenty and forests in plenty, when
we know that our forests are being de-
pleted far more swiftly than it is pos
sibie for US TO reforest. We have for
ests in plenty for the present generation
and perhaps for the next, but in the
years TO come there will be famine a
plenty if we don't at this time take the
stitch in time.
John W. Noble, former secretary of
the interior also spoke on conservation.
He said i'm part;
The statutes relating to and author
iZing forest reserves and the reserve Of
reservoir sites either in letter or spirit
confined them TO the close limits in
Cisted upon by some, but used broad
terms suitable to the nature of the sub
Ject matter in hand, and the more re-
cent acts did not contemplate the re-
linquishment of reserves and giving
them back to private settlement where
they were needed or useful for a suffi-
Client water supply as contemplated by
their original selection OF segregation. %
The speaker showed the present bene-
fits and future prospect from forest and
water reservations. He discussed the
matter of protecting the reservations
from infringement and their being grad
ually pared down by the claims of in
dividuals and small local communities
who asserted that the reservations were
too large, and that covered areas, which
might be Of use for grazing should be
turned back to the public domain and
be subject to settlement and private
ownership.
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