, 1910-01-13

Yes, Piuchot is tout" But, gentlemen, you who re $ o hilarious owe his
dismissal remember that the Forest Reserve policy has come stay. Men
ire small things in comparison to great principal. You will find that
things will move IN much the same as before, when Pinchot was
at the helm. The people of the Uuhed States ARE alive to the situation and
the FORESTS Is veil as tn watera n o. supply Oft the land The down
fall" of Pinchot, as you pleased to call it cannot be construed as in any way
affecting the great principle of the conservation of the countrys natural re-
sources.
For many years the merchants of Saratoga have been compelled to carry
the ranch and stockmen of the valley for months at a time and some of them
1t is almost UNIVERSAL III matters have change here in the past
six months. Go Ito any business man in Saratoga and ask him and he will
tell you that nearly, if not all, of the ranchmen have paid their accounts in
In fuh. The wonderful crops OF lasts summer, together with the railroad ia
cilhies furnished by the & E Ry, is the solution of this remarkable sit
uadon. They have had good crops and the railroad has carried them to
market.
The ROY between Secretary Balinger and Forest Pinchot ended Friday
last in the President Diminishing MI. Pinchot from the service. The incident
happened for "A decade OF years by reason OF the prominence of the parties
L iss said that the only request Theodore Roosevelt made of Taft was that
wre IN eco IN tn matter OF the nservatio Of the nations resource
es. Had Garfield remained there would have been nc trouble in the admin-
istraton family. Pinchot vas the lastr remnant of the Roosevelt adminstra-
tn President Taft could not ignore the violation by Pinchot if the rule
that no information should be given out except thru the heads of the depart
ments. Piuchots dismissal is but a n incident. The great fight is to come
when the investigation takes place. Let ush hope that it will be a searching
one and that the truth may be known about those Alaskan coal lands.
The question of water works for the town of Saratoga is that comes
up at intervals for discussion. Now that we have IN abundance of money in
thu treasury the matter hs been revived. 1t will be we'll to ponder owe this
matterb before any steps aret taken, in order that not a dollar be wasted, or
any mistake made. 1t is clear to many of our citizens that any smt of en-
or pump is but a temporary make-shift at best. If water could be had
iron any source, the river, or any of the small streams adjacent to the town
that would be inexpensive, yet permanent, then such a plan should be
adopted. But no such plan comes within the means of town 1t. the present. If
atesian water could be had this would eem to be the best and cheapest
plan. There is a body, OF stream of fine, soft water, underlying the town at
about 70 feet. If this body of water could be struck at some point b,ub
enough above the town and at a point where it would flow, then the town
would be in lit. This would furnish a gravity presurei in last of fire. WouId
it not be we'll to prospect for such water at some pont an he nr,,,ndt
bench, well back toward the hills, 10 that if flowing wateris struck it would
furnish the pressure needed in cae of fire. 1t would be money we'll spent
if an effort we're made to find flowing watera anywhere ear town.