The Coconino sun., 1925-09-18


of Grand canyon, and a number of
other subjects mostly foreign to game
protection, are included in report
Ly State Game Warden Willard, tiled
with the governor.
The report covers the journeyings
of the game warden and his deputy
through four states, and will be read
With interest by every sportsman who
wants enlightenment on what is being
done to protect the wild life of Ari-
zona. Here are some Of the points
of the document:
The game warden and deputy were
instructed to go to Denver.
The Garden of the Gods is "sell'
to anyone who has seen the Grand
Canyon, Oak Creek canyon or
Schnebly hill.
Schnebly hill would make a hun
dred Gardens of the Gods.
Irrigation in the Salt Lake basin
has reached the highest development
in the world.
Willard takes sides with the forest
service in its controversy with the
park authorities before the president S
committee ON recreational areas.
Feudal hatred exists between the
settlers of northern Arizona and Utah
stockmen.
The report in full reads:
The Report
an accordance with your instruc-
tions, Deputy Pettis and myself left
Phoenix on the morning OF August
10, by auto, to attend the annual
meeting of the Association of Western
State Game Wardens held at Denver,
Colo, August 21-22.
"As the American Fisheries society
was to meet there on the 17th, 18th
and 18th, and the International Fish
and Game association, embracing
Canada and the United States, was
to meet on the Goth, / deemed it adj
visable to attend all those conferences
in the hope of expectation of gaining
information of value TO this state. l
believe the extra time and money we'll
spent.
AT Colorado SPRING we visited the
Garden Of the Gods-Colorado's most
famous outdoor show or attraction and
felt ourselves "sold" and imposed
upon, as anyone must, who mas looked
into Grand Canyon from any point
from either side, or who has passed
through Oak Creek canvon or down
SchneOiy hill. | am aiming not to
exaggerate when | say that from the
Schnebly hill, may be seen at one
glance, the makings of hundred
Gardens of the Gods.
wishing to look into conditions of
the Kaibab forest on our way back,
we returned via Cheyenne, Laramie,
Ogden, Salt Lake City and Kanab.
We were much impressed with the
Salt Lake basin where agriculture by
means of irrigation, has reached the
highest and richest stage of develop
ment perhaps in the world, and that
too, under less favorable natural con-
ditions than Arizona has to offer in
the raw today.
Kaibab Forest is Great
an the four states we travelled
through, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming, we did not see half
as much commercial forest as is
standing in the Kaibab forest, which
itself is insignificant compared with
the Mogollon timber belt which
reaches from Ashfork on the west to
the eastern border of our state, dis
miles in length, with a width of more
than a hundred miles in places.
eve reached the Kaibab just in time
to fall in with the presidents COM
n1ittee on outdoor recreational areas,
with National Park Commissioner
Stephen Mather in charge. Here |
became very much interested, for it
was plainly continuation of the
long drawn strife on the part of Mr..
Mather to bring the Kaibab forest,
deer, timber ana all, into the national
park area If Mather should win his
point, it would mean no grazing, no
timber cutting, no hunting, however
crowded with deer the range might
become. With their bellies full Of
lamb chops, Mather and his followers
pretend to be Mortified at the idea of
permitting a man to kill one of these
deer to feed hungry flock of chill
dren. And he frankly and frequently
declares that it were better to leave
it to nature (meaning lions, coyotes,
bobcats and starvation) to preserve a
balance between the number of deer
and their food supply, than to permit
the overplus to be killed and put to a
useful purpose.
Park Commissioner Wants More
'The forest service offer to yield to
him a strip of about six miles wide,
reaching across the plateau from east
to west, and containing some 10000
acres. But with this concession Ma
ther is not satisfied and is contending
for a line six miles north Of the
park, or 26 miles back from the rim
of the canyon This would give him
about half of the grazing area, and
practically all of the deer herd both
summer and winter.
"The forest service claims that
million dollar annual business could
be carried on in the Kaibab indefinite
ly. That by the time the area was
cut over at this rate the first cutting
would be ready for recutting. AS this
forest is the only inducement to a
railroad ever building into that section
of our state, it seems to me far from
practical to reduce that inducement by
one-half, as would be the case if half
the timber were to come under
the national park jurisdiction. Like the
surplus grass and the surplus deer, it
would no longer be available to sup
ply human needs, further than to be