The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-30
Effort to Abolish Forests Results Only in Loss to People of Substantial
 Benefits.
LOGIC OF BEN CRAyENS
Couldn't Bear to Have Government Spend $50, Year in Arkan- sas Because It Didn't Make
 a Profit.

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 Samuel J. Record, supervisor of the Arkansas National Forest, whose resignation takes effect on July l, arrived in Mena overland from Hot Springs Wednesday, ac- companied by Daniel w. Adams, who is to succeed him. With them came Supervisor Francis Keller of the Ozark National Forest aud Prof. George l.. Clo- thier of the Mississippi Agricul- tural and Mechanical college.
 The trip was in tue nature of an inspection of the forest and the different stations for the in- formation ot the new supervisor, and took Tn Womble and Slating- ton.
 MT. Record, who leaves the forest service in a few days to take position as instructor ID the Department of Forestry in Yale University, feels strongly the wrong that he believes has resulted from the fight on the Ma tional Forest in Montgomery county, centering around Mt. Ida, and talked freely ou the sub ject. He staies that the result has been to put a stop to the building of roads and trails in the district, this because Congress men Floyd and Cravens and other politicians have carried the fig ht to Congress and have succeeded in cutting down the appropriation to point that makes such work impossible. The effort to abolish the for ests has failed. The strong ar. gument presented was that the government was spending ESQ., 900 a year in Arkansas and get. ting but a few thousand iu re. turn from the forests, therefore 1t was not a paying proposition, CraveDs seemed to obi ,ct to money coming to his district, pectally, and seemed 10 think ,ne government should be very careful how it helped to build roads, etc..
 Mir. Record says that there would have been no trouble ex cept for the fact that those who were fighting the National For ests had personal ends to gain, while those who favored them and approved the work being done had no special reasons to take an interest in the fight and kept still.
 Mir. Record said that the efforts made to control fires in the forest through the cooperation of and hiring of local men had proven a failure. He states that last win ter he had on pay at times in his district as many as 300 men, but that their work was ineffective, as fires were set out as fast as ex- tinguished. He says another system will be tried in the future which he believes will be more effective.
 Prof. Clothier is going to spend the summer in the national for. ests of this state, giving his en- tire time to the study of soil val. ues. The purpose of this is chief. lily to give rules to guide the of- ficials in deciding the respective value of lands, whether best fit ted for agriculture and subject to entry by homesteaders, or wheth- CT more valuable in the produc- ton of timber. The professor has had wide expcrienco iu agri- culture and timber and is said to be probably the best equipped man in the country for thls work. He is especially well acquainted with conditions iu the South. | MT. Record, MT. Adams and Mr. Clothier left Thursday foi l Eagleton, Waldron and other points. MT. Kiefer went to liar risou, the headquarters of the | Ozark forest.
 | July 9 Mir. Record will go tC Milford, Pa, 10 take up his new duties.