The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-19
SOME new ADDITIONS TO FOREST
GRAZING RULES PUT IN EFFECT


that on February Is, 1924 the Secce-
tary Of Agriculture signed and approx
ed the new grazing regulations to be-
come effective March l, 1924. There
was rumor that the Secretary had
withheld his approval, until stockmen
yielded to commercialization plan.
Our natural public resources must
be greatly depended upon for business
and revenue.
After insuring their use in con-
sentative manner, it would seem the
Government s responsibility next to
surround that use with such principles
as to fit it with good business prac-
tees.
From wealth-producing standpoint
in the long run, the western range
states most important natural re-
source is the annual natural forage
crop on her vast ranges. A great part
of these ranges suited to summer use
are included within National Forest
withdra walls where the grazing use is
regulated by the Federal Government.
Within the National Forests there are
many demonstrations tending to snow
effective work along the lines of con-
servative use. The situation in this
egard is not perfect, but particularly
considering the magnitude of the task,
he new field and the many obstacles
> overcome, mighty satisfactory head
ay has been made. The greater diff
Guilty seems to have been to get the
principles surrounding the range use
.lrmonized with needs of both the
,tockraising business and all business
which that line OF endeavor is re-
.a.ed which, in the west, means practi-
eaIly the whole business structure.
from the iewpoint of the general
business structure certain fundament-
= principles mus, oe Observed IN such
matters if the machine is to function
satisfactorily. The business of the
banker or of the merchant is no safer
than the industries which support that
business.
1t seems, therefore, of paramount
Importance that the Government do
everything within its power to insure
stability in our basic industries.
We all know that business or indus
try is on an unsafe basis when its cap
ital is tied up in property which caa
not be sold or borrowed upon fairly
close to its going value. One of the
popular tests in any investment now
DAYS is to determine from your banker
what could be raised upon that in
vestment in case of need.
Taking the stoclraising and ranch
ing industry in Idaho and the west
where the "key" summer feeding
ground related to the same happens to
be located within a National Forest,
it seems most important in this con-
nection that "way out" be provided
for those whose dependent property
investments back of their live stock
otherwise would be wiped out or great
ly deprecated in value.
The operator owning no dependent
but merely his live stock can
always realize upon the same and to!
almost if not full market value if
given anywhere near a reasonable time
in which to make his trade. The situ- {
alton is vastly different in the case of
he majority of our operators who own
not only their live stock but dependent
in connection Herewith such
is. hay ranches, for instance. 1t is
clear that the value in such properties,
lnder our conditions, through the nat
lral and logical development of the
business in the long period when the 1
'anges were open for the building of
stock raising outfits, included the val
les in the ranges on the public lands
controlled by those ranches. Bus
ness has been built upon those invest '
nent values. Whenever they are de-
'eciated, the values under lying bust
ness is deprecated.
Business can never be safe, in our I
ease, until the values in the industries I
it are safe. There seems |
20 be only two ways out of the situ- l
ltion. Either to legally make the val
les good by tieing dependent owned
and the natural forage re- I
source on the public lands together or 8
or the Government to relieve those, 8
Who settled such land by compensatiug C
hem for their owned part, but only
part, of their necessary base of opera t
ions and thus taking back the COM S
,lete operating base for re-allocat1on
complete sets--meaning tieing to-