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essary to prevent monopoly and
abuse from absolute ownership on
the other. These recommendation
are incorporated in bills he has
prepared and they are at the dis
position of the congress. | earnestly
recommend that all the suggestions
which he has made with respect to
these lands shall be embodied in
statutes. and especially that the
Withdrawals already made shall be
validated SO far as necessary and
that doubt as to the authority OF
the secretary of the interior to
withdraw lands for the purpose OF
submitting recommendation as 10 fu
ture disposition of them where now
legislation is needed. shall be made
complete and unquestioned.
The forest reserves of the Unit.
ed States, some 100000 acres in
extent, are under the control of the
department of agriculture with au.
thority adequate to preserve them
and to extend their growth so far
as that may be practicable. The i'm.
portance Of the maintenance of our
forests cannot be exaggerated. The
possibility of a scientific treatment
, Of forests In order that they shall
be made to yield large return in
| timber. without really reducing the
supply. has been demonstrated in
other countries and we should work
toward the standard set by them
so far as their methods are appli.
cable to our conditions.
Upwards of four hundred million
acres of forest land in this corr.
try are in private ownership, but
treated scientifically and with Il
view to the maintenance of tie
forests. The part played by the
forests in the equalization of .hc
| supply of water on water sheds Is
matter of discussion and dispute,
/ but the general benefit to be de.
| rived by the public from the exten.
| sion of forest lands on water eh"ds
/ and the promotion of the growth q.
trees in places that are now denud.
/ ed and that once had great flour
ishing forests, goes without saying
] In hA
private owners in their treatment
of the forests which they own is
a matter for state and not nation.
al regulation. because there is moth.
ing in the constitution that authoc
ICES the federal government to ex
ercise any control over forests with
in state. unless the forests are
owned in IA proprietary way by the
federal government.
of the inland waterways. He would
be blind. indeed, who did not real
ize that the people OF the entire west
and especially those OF the Miss
issippi valley, have been aroused to
the need there is for the improve
nent Of our inland waterways. The
Mississippi river, with the Missouri
+ on the one hand and the Ohio Oh
!. the other. would seem To offer
great natural means of interstate
, transportation and traffic. How far
, if properly improved, they would re
. lieyc the railroads or supplement
. them in respect TO the bulkler anC
cheaper commodities is mltter o
+ conjecture. No enterprise ought q
, be undertaken the cost of which Il
, Lo, definitely ascertained and tn,
benefit and advantage OF which ar,
b not known and assured by compe
( tent engineers and other authority
% When however, a project of DEF
I mite character for the improvement
/ of waterway has been develope,
E 50 that the plans have been drawn
}, the cost definitely estimated. an,
h the traffic which will be accommC
e dated is reasonably probable,
}. think it is the duty of congres
G TO undertake the project and max
;. provision therefor in the proper az