Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-03

| upon which t0 draw Tor our supplies ~
wood. many of our industries must at
once cease operations Even in house
building. but little of the building MAJ
] torial comes from our own forests
We admit our disappointment upon
reading the dispatches to the of-
feet that so many western senators
eight in nll aldcd in defeating the adj
dition of t500OOO 20 the amount allowed
lr che House bin Tor tho purpose of mae
uonal forestry standardization. And
ve ore corrcspondlngly gratned TO OBJ
servo that Senator smoot was on the
side OF forest conservation.
DO Is fortunate. wC think that SEM
ator Carriers amendment Co reduce che
forestry appropriation from $Gesdooo
as passed the House. to t316oo00 was
laid on che table by vote of a2 Co 26.
During the discussion of the bills.
Senator Teller called attention to the
dauuucatious made against men who
have cut timber on Che public lands
in mining districts Hs declared the
timber had been cut legally. and had
yielded the government in precious
minerals many times the value oi the
timber Tie said hc had drafted and
procured the passage of the act OF
1875. which allowed the people of the
west TO- do what they had been doing
without any law in tho cutting OF tim-
Der on public lands Tor mining camps.
What Senator Teller says may be
true yet the support OF the work OF
forest conservation should not De made
To- depend upon such considerations.
Condemning the forestry bureau sys-
tenn. Mr. Teller said 20 Pinchots plan
had been applied TO Colorado during
the days OF its development that state
would stiH De the home OF the coyote,
the panther and the bear. The system.
Doe said was destroying tho prospects
for settlement iu the future. Eefores-
tmuon, he said. had been failure in
Colorado. The farmers raise more TIM
Der in that state than is raised by the
forest bureau
NOW this Is herosy 90 the idea of ace
tual conservation OF the American f1r-
ests. But few Of them now remain.
and these few can last but a quarter Of
a century. Something must be done,
and that something cannot consist Boz
the mere obstruction OF present efforts.
II the western senators have a super
ior plan for the reforestatlou OF the
lands denudcd OF their former forests
let them declare &c.. Mere fault-hnding
is generally wasted effort
We cannot think that the opposing
Senators have carefully gone into the
nature of this policy one cannot
comprehend the condition OF our for-
ests and the causes which have Ted
TO their Wanton waste and destruction
without careful study OF the situa-
ton Looking at our forests from a
car window or "a hin top gives no ade- /
quate idea Of the value of the timber |
in them, nor does a careful estimate of |
the stumpage from lumberman's |
standpoint. reveal their true condi- !
ton. Lumbormen have been telling |
us for years that the supply Of avail |
Ihle timber is getting low.
W. J. Greene. the Ohio state Forest /
sr states in a recent report that we |
are not buying elsewhere ln order % |
save our own for we have almost none |
left lie shows that we should at |
once experience a timber famine Of |
the worst kind n the outside supply
We're cut on Building operations |
would be greatly reduced. Rents and |
cost OF many articles would advance. |
Many laborers would be thrown out |
N employment Readustmeut OF /
most OF our business relations would /
become necessary and substitutes for /
timber would need to- be found on /
many farms there is not timber en-
1ugh left 10 keep the buildings and |
fences iu repair. The half-wooded /
areas which the casual observer calls |
forests are nearly an wooded pas
lures, the few remaining trees being |
sulls which are unit for lumber.
And we do not think that NJ Green /
puts the case too strongly when he |
says:
"The fact that we can. for "a few /
years longer have share en- the |
worlds waning supply OF timber is not |
Sufficient reason for Tho ignoring OF j
BUR true condition. In few years, |
when old age claims tne few remain |
Ing trees which we can lu no way
utilize, we may come 20 realize our
shOrtsightedness. Those who are full
by aware or what Us coming and know
the troubles which follow dcforosta-
rion. realize that IT IS not possible 10
sound the alarm too soon nor too
loudly nor can the appeal for the
planting and care of trees be mado too
strong
The giraffe Us thu0aty but not Chasty