Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-19
RLORDYkE AND ITS
 BIS FORESTS
Continued from Page O.

the reserves, for instance, one may
 take up "a homestead" Instead of
 going by the regular rules of the
 settlements, the settler in a forest
 reserve. fl 1t is unsurveyed, may
 take up bis l60 acres in any shape
 ne desires, with dezen corners ff II suits his plans. Thus, many have and many more will take homesteads
 that extend for mile up and
 down a stream, wfrs very little out
 On the hiilsides. In this manner know good many who have 75 to 100 acres of the finest land under
 The sun within their homesteads,
 where if the regular rule outside reserves was enforced each would
 nave 20 to 30 acres of this good land, and the balance rocky and
 barren land Of the arid section.
 Prospecting is Encouraged.
 Prospecting is encouraged. The rangers often will build a good trail to a prospect if the owners are active in its development The gov. ernment permits the prospectQr to use whatever timber he needs for any purpose-mining building. fires. etc. And if the prospector be sin cere the ranger makes his life very pleasant so far as the government is concerned. If he needs to go away for a while to earn money to continue his work. he will leave the keys to his cabin with the ranger oftentimes. and the officer will keep an outlook for him. 1T he wants to go to town and the ranger happens along he will find out from the officer just about where his burros aTe-and there are hundreds Of ways in which he is benefited.
 The cOwman also is benefited. pos si5ly more than any other. The gov ernment charges 45 cents per head per year for pasturage of stock 1 within the forest reserve. The gov ernmet sees to it-there is no | guesswoFk about this-that the range 1 is never overstockedi and therefore | the cattle do better than they ever l did before. It is the policy ia fact | according to the regulations printed l in the Use Book to foster every. 4 thing that will tend 10 build ID the | countTy-and this is one Of the | greatest reasons for the forest re. serve. Not long ago some cowboys | were out branding calves in another | district. They were careless, and | after branding an animal they found | on the range they hurried on. | leaving the fire on which thS~ heated | the branding iron stiu burning. IL | just happened that a ranger came | along before the forest fire had 1 well started, and put 1t out alone | He hunted up those cowboys, though | and haled them to the supervisor who | TF owner of the cattle had to put up | the money tO keep the boys out l of jail for 100 days. This seems a | bit drastic-but it will certainly put a stop to carelessness with fires | within the National forests.
 The rangers have rather a good l position. They get s11OO a year. and 1 they are furnished a house and feed | for animals; furnished instruments. | tents, cooking and camping outfits They select the site for the station, and the government usually puts up | a Broom house Of good proportions, ! with porches, and the ranger has considerable time to spend at home Many Of them are married, and their homes are as coZy as one could find anywhere, because it is the policy Of the supervisors to change the married men very seldom. The unmarried rangers are changed fire quently, and these especially are sent to new reserves, as was the case with Mir. Kirby, who was sent here last fallA coming from the Globe district
 The supervisor Of this district is T. T. Swift, stationed at Stafford and each ranger in the district has about 90 suqare miles to cover and care for. NIT. Swift Is now expert menting with the Eucalyptus tree, | having planted a mountain range back Of that place. It is expected | that these trees wili do well here in which case large numbers will be immediately planted. and before many years We shall have eucalyptus 1 forests in place of the barren spots ! now existing It has been found l by the department that many sup Iosedly barren places will produce good forest trees, as the roots gC 1 to water.
 And right here I want to tell some thing strange, at least to me There is in the section what is ] known as the desert willow. The presence Of this trees is an al l most sure sign that water is very deep, if not lacking altogether. ] had always supposed ttat a willow l tree denoted water close to the sur face somewhere but this disprOyes 1 it. The desert willow has at this l tine of year long bean-like pod, l resembling very much the ordinary l string bean and it grows Go about the size of a pea, there being to i 10 in a pod.
 There are a great many intensely l Interesting things to he learnod on | a trip with a forest raHser-and l some day | shall write more about 1 he instruction ] have received.
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