Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-30
FOR CONSERVATION
AND COMMON SENSE
Forestry Committee OF American
Mining Congress Submits
It's Report.
WOULD AID FOREST SERVICE
orospcctors should Nnt be- Barred
From RCseTNc- or Free
Use OF Timber

Los Angeles. sept 8o.-That the
miners OF the United States should
help the forestry service in any revi-
sion OF the reservation law which
you'd conserve the timber resources.
bst that any effort to bar prespec-
tors from entry into tho national re-
serves or To- restrict tho free use 81
esnber should be- opposed, Was the
hfst of II report submitted by the
forestry committee of the American
mining congress today Tho report
which was referred 10 the resolutions
committee for action. attacked the
present restrictions placed on mine
prospecting lon forest reserves aud rec
commended the adoption Of re-
port rendered hg the Same committee
last year. but sidctrackcd By tho Gold
held convention This report bitterly
criticized the rulings or OXFORD PIN
chut and denounced his administra-
Ton Of the forestry bureau.
PRIEST. TAFT LAuDED.
president TAFT il lauded for his "com-
nonsense talk" before the cUnserva-
ton congress az ~. Paul. and Senator
Nelson's bin relative To timber in ma
tional reserves is denounced In the
report OF the committee on forestry,
which was submitted TO the American
mining congress today. Nelson's adj
minlstration bill the report asserts,
takes away the right Of minera to cut
timber from forest reserves to ard
them In developing claims Relative
20 the president attitude toward con-
servation, the report says:
In the opinion of many who heard
him, he also made response to the
recent agitation for n new
nationalism, or federal centraliza-
tion Of power by declaring that tho
only safe course to pursue was 20 hold
fast to the limitations OF the Consti-
tuition and TO regard as sacred the
power OF the states
HE also declared that the time for
rhapsodies and glitterinG genernlities
had passed and suggested 20 the con
gross that il should invite its speakers
a. come down to details as TO specific
evils and the specific remedies.
I'm connection with tho above II
may he stated In all modesty that your
forestry committee has been dealing
with cold facts. II has collected many
records Of abuses that are iniuhcal tn
the mining industry, upon which IL
ba1cd it's findings and recommended
tiOns which II is hoped and believed 4
might prove useful and favnrnblp 10
ms congress. aud also the forestry
service in AN equitable and legal solu-
zion OF the rights Of all. All this has
been done with nothing but tho friend
Hest feeling toward tho forestry serv-
Ice which the committee desires to as
sist in every way within its power.
not forgetting its allegiance to tho min
ing Industry
FREE USE OF TIMBER
IN the matter Of the free use Of
Timber for the development or pros
1ective mines. u wiz be noted that the 4
ntlre question hinges upon the act Of /
une B. 1878 This act plainly gives the
miner and prospector the right To- cut
imhcr for the development OF hts |
''aims This act never has been re-
'ealed. and IL does not limit the miner
% certain sections Of the public do
main Yet In the Use Book. II IS stated
hat this act applies only Go unre-
erved lands not within national for
SITS
PRosPECToR AND MINER.
Whatever difference NJ opinion may
Xist relative 10 tho Interpretation of
he law Of 1873. II Is quite evident that
ven the officials Of the national forest
aivce clearly r. ,onnize that the PROS
ector and miner has some legal rights
hereunder, otherwise there would be