The Chitina leader., 1913-06-24
THE FORESTRY SITUATION

Mir Humphrey has taken an important step in asking the House investigate the Forestry Bureau He produced substantial charges and it sincerely to be hoped that the House makes the investigation he desires.
 Such investigation would be the continuation of pagn for justice in which various papers ested, and none more prominently than the Times.
 In the of 190 correspondent of this paper spent four months travelling through Alaska Investigating coal dtions and also to ascertain why the people there with wealth of this fuel beneath their compelled spend
 couple of million dollars per for British Columbia coal
 The investigation demonstrated that the impractcabe methods of the conservaons responsible for this alous and absurd condition
 The inquiry continued in 1911 at Washington G. and in Oregon As result of inquiry into the Fremont For est Reserve the Times first became suspicious that Senator Mitchell had been illegally convicted by William J. Burns and announced
 On April 21 191 the Times published from the pen it's correspondent d. J. Underwood article entitled he Crime of Conservation It time when the country just commencing to realize that something wrong with the autocac Forestry Bureau widespread interest
 This article reads great measure like Mr. Humphrey charges preferred against the Forestry Bureau The waste the extravaganza the impractical management the selfish terests subserved and the downright questionable methods poyeda these things set forth with detail and ion.
 It charged that Alaska coal the interest the Pocoontas interests conspiracy existed to enrich the railroad and lumber with the of the servaon advocates that Richard A. Banger had victim of these conspiracies.
 It charged that in order to further scheme to keep Alaska coal out of competition honest citizens had been ndcted that the being robbed the
 year by being compelled Pocohonta coa that the government had broken faith with its citizens taking $32O 900 for coal lands which sold and had delivered
 It charged that the benecaries of conservationhe Rail roads, the Timber Baron and the Coad Kngwere support ing the movement that thousands of dollars of public money appropriated teach the people the best methods ation used to build political machine for Roosevelt and Pinchot
 It charged that empire larger than Germany had been dedicated to solitude that the laws of the United had been set aside by Roosevelt that fortune rpened timber being allowed to rot-A for the benefit of the timber barons and order that they might easily advance the price of this commodity.
 That article has been satisfactorily answered. Times believes it be- Recent have demon strated the interest of the various giant corporations the Roosevelt campaign of 1904 Roosevelt at that time the leader of the conservation movement and the expemenas Pnchot, its high priest
 An investigation such Mr. Humphrey demands will be another long step toward that end for which the Times has diligently soughtthe ultimate development of the ocaed eonservaon states the basis the other states of the union and the opening of Alaska wealth development in order that the whole nation profit through the reclaim ing of the Northern empire from the wilderness that on seeks to continue it's allotted condition for ndef nitene period.-Seatte Times