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30 were forthwith set to work to secure this more valuable prize. At 
this juncture a few citizens of Tulare County took steps to thwart 
the attempted spoliation of the Sequoia forests. As the forest in 
Township 18, Range 30 was the one the timber men most wanted, 
the inference was reasonable that it was the best of all for the Gov- 
ernment to keep. We need not detail the ways and means adopted, 
but the ultimate outcome of the opposition has been the Vandever 
bill, embracing in its proposed reservation two townships and four 
sections to be set apart as a National Sequoia Park. This reserva- 
tion includes the forest marked on your map as the Sequoia Park 
Forest, and also the larger part of the Homer Peak Forest, some- 
where from 3,000 to 5,000 acres. South of these, following the 
Sequoia belt, in Township 19, Range 30, we come to the Dillon 
Mill Forest, of over 1,000 acres, with but little remaining to the 
Government, and from which thousands of Sequoia fence posts are 
being hauled this season. And still farther southward, partly in the 
southeast corner of the same township and extending into the cor- 
ners of three other townships, is the Tule River Forest. Much 
“ cutting and slashing ” for a period of years, of which Prof. Eisen 
told you at a late meeting, has here been going on; and during this 
time different mills have been drawing their supply of mountain red- 
wood from this forest; and still by far the larger part remains. Here 
exists a noted center of Sequoia growth known as the “ McFadyen 
80,” (acres) estimated by lumbermen to have on it timber sufficient for 
8,000,000 feet of lumber. Only one mill is running this season. This, 
with the Pixley Grove, we will estimate at 3,500 acres. About six 
miles directly south is the Putnam Mill Forest, in Townships 20 and 
21, Range 31, containing some 4,000 acres. A portion of this, that 
in Township 20, Range 31, is still owned by the Government and is 
a very beautiful forest of over 1,000 acres. In the northeast of this 
same Township 21, Range 31, and extending into the adjoining 
townships, is found the Fleitz Forest, owned by a Michigan syndi- 
cate; while in the southeast portion of the same township and ex- 
tending into Township 22, Range 31, are groves owned by the 
syndicate known as the “‘ Kessing,”’ the several tracts comprising 
_ an area of some 4,000 acres. Here again, in the southwest of 
- Township 22, Range 31, the Government possesses a forest of 
somewhat uncertain value and extent, known as the Indian Reserva- 
_ tion Forest, and estimated at 1,500 acres. It is not generally known 
