No. 6. DJfiPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. iV.l 



ottered tlieiu a tempting" field. In Ihe iiatiu-al course of e\cu(s the 

 liine would have come when it would have paid them to invest 

 in such lands at low prices and hold it against Ihe time when dis- 

 covery of minerals would have made their development profitable, 

 or the increasing scarcity of land, due to increase of population, 

 would have enabled them to reap large financial returns by entering 

 into grazing- or lumbering. In either case it would have passed 

 beyond the power of the people. State acquisition of this land 

 secures it to the people. It would be a most unfortunate thing 

 for our citizens if there should ever come a time when the people 

 at large would cease to have ground which was wholly theirs and 

 upon which they could go for the rest and the recreation which 

 are made so necessary by the accumulating demands of our busy 

 civilization. 



These reservations now b(^long to the j)eo])le. and may the owner- 

 ship never be changed. 



