The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-27
BRADY TALKS
ABOUT IDAHO
Governor Tells His Views of
Conservation and Boosts
the State.

Gov j. II. Brady made the follow
ing interesting comment about the
Gem state:
Idaho probably has a larger ma
tional forest reserve in its borders
than any other state. She has suf-
ficient waterfalls, if properly har-
messed, to run every train and turn
every factory wheel that is i'm opera
ton today west of the Mississippi.
Our phosphate beds are the only
ones west of the Rockies that are
actually producing, and in our coal
fields, which have not been fully de-
veloped, we have plenty of fuel and
of just as good quality as Wyom-
ing furnishes to- the market.
I'VE believe that natural resour
ces should be conserved as much as
possible for the benefit of the state
in which they exist, and at the same
time that there should be the ut
most harmony between the national
and state governments in handling
them.
ut has been felt by a very large
number of our best citizens that
Clifford Pinchot was attempting to
centralize the power of administra-
ton too much in Washington and
that he was handling the zoe, OOO,-
900 acres of land under his control
too much by authority from bureaus
instead of by enacted laws. On
the other hand the people of my
state seem to have every conf
dence in Secretary Ballmgers in
tention to administer the laws as
he finds them on the statute books
and that he is just as honest in
his desire to conserve and protect
the country's natural resources as
Mr. Pinchot. We in Idaho believe
both men to be both honest and
capable.
What we don't like about the
conservation laws is that three
fourths of the net proceeds of the
sale of land and water rights goes
to the federal government. The peo-
pie OF New York, Ohio-in fact
most of the states in the east
have devastated their forests, have
taken up or sold all the water priv
ileges, without paying the federal
government cent. On the other
hand Idaho has paid $14S,000 this
year to the federal government as
its share of the proceeds from the
forest reserve alone. At the asme
rate, If the development of the state
continues as it promises, within 10
years we shall be handling over a
million dollars a year tribute to
the federal government.
We are absolutely in favor of
conservation, but we want to find
way somehow to keep a reasonable
part .of this money in our state for
schools and good roads.
Il don't think here in the east it
Is realized what we are doing out
there. In the last five years there
have been built and are building
$30,O00,000 worth of canals Dur
ing that time we have constructed
canal that would carry a. fair sized
body of water from New York all the
way to San Francisco, putting under
cultivation 100000 acres Of land.
ton than California, Utah, Montana
and Wyoming combined. Farmers
are pouring into the country and
fully 90 per cent of them are Ameri-
cans, mostly from the middle west.
Boise is just erecting a state capi-
tai and they have lately financed
Dig eight-story building, which will
be our tallest building so far. The
population of Boise has doubled in
the last 10 years. The railroad de-
Veiopment of the country is going ON
at rapid rate. Some of the men
who had made q lot in the Occur
dAlene decided that as they had Ia
Ken so much money out of the state
II would be only fair for them to do
something In return. SO they built a
railroad from Occur d'Alene to Spo-
Kane, a distance of 80 miles.
None of them knew anything
about railroading and they were pre-
pared to sink their money, SO no
body was. more. surprised than they
when the little road paid dividend
OF Is per cent the first year. The
result was that the people In that