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CHELAN COUNTY BUILDS 100
MILES OF ROAD In WENAT-
CHEZ RESERVES PER CENT
OF COUNTY ON RESERVE.

II am enthusiastically in favor of
conservation in the other fellows
state" said the blind Cd senator
from Oklahoma in the halls of con-
gress Saturday.
The decision reached by a large
majority in the house, headed by
Morse of Wisconsin, that the atti-
tude of the western states in wanting
35 per cent of the returns of the
forest reserves given to the states
that they were in was unjust and
that the government was better en-
titled to the money for general pur-
poses than the state was for pur-
poses of roads and schools, has caus-
ed a storm of protest locally.
Chelan county has so much land
in the reserve that the statement of
Congressman Morse to the eeffct that
there are no roads and schools with
in the reserves attracted general at
tention.
A World representative sought for
an authority on the county's condi-
ton and found VIM. Haywards, who
is as we'll acquainted with everything
pertaining to the timber interests as
any man can be.
Has Roads and Schools in Reserve.
Mr.. Hayward said: 81 will not
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25, 80 or 35 per cent should be paid
from the national resources of the
state, but when Mr. Morse thinks
that we have neither wagon roads or
schools within the bounds of the for
est reserves / think he had better
come here ana learn facts. Accord
ing to the government map of the
Wenatchee national forest reserve
the boundaries of the reserve include
SO per cent of this county, and there
is also part of another reserve in the
county This map shows that there
are 1897 sections in the reserve and
276 out of it. The same map shows
100 miles of principal roads sup
ported and constructed by county
funds, all within the reserve.
Some of the Roads.
The Red Mountain, all in Chelan
county and within the reserve, is 40
miles long and built by the county.
= The Eagle Creek road is eight miles
long and serves heavy settlement
The Entiat, heavily settled, too, Is
IS miles long There are miles of
road from Woodspur to Merritt; 20
miles of road from Peshastin to Swa-
kane, and 25 of the Gle Elum road
The Kelooches road is Is miles; the
Tenaway is 10, and six miles more
from the Columbia up the Swakane.
Besides these there are other roads
too numerous to mention, represent
ing miles and miles of development
work paid for by this county, and
the congressman says there are no
roads in the forest reserves. These
roads lead to ranches worth as high
as $4,000 an acre.
Many Valuable Ranches in Reserves.
Il can tell you of many valuable
ranches within the reserves and these
ranches call for the best of roads and
many schools One ranch of general
reputation is the Sullivan place,
three miles from Cashmere Thirty
one acres of that ranch bring an an
nual cash rental of $4,000. There
are $50 acres more of that same
ranch set out to young orchard and
bringing in cash rental also.
Schools i'm Reserve.
Regarding schools in the reserve
| am not so familiar but l know of
many schools scattered around, either
within the reserve or just on the
edges of it and drawing the children
from the valuable places inside the
limits. There is the Chiwaukum
school, Peshastin, Blewett, Entiat,
Ferris 1.-TWO at Ferris), two or three
at Cashmere, Telma, Merritt, and
more than | can think of now.
Bridges.
ASK the congressman about a
county bridge being built across the
foot of Lake Wenatchee and in the
forest reserve. This county's forest
reserve is full of roads and schools"