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(6) The future supply of timber for 

 this nation depends upon the conserva- 

 tion of the remaining forests. 



(7) Transportation between the 

 states will be greatly injured by the 

 sudden removal of the forests. 



(8.) No appreciable effects occur 

 within the state in which forests are lo- 

 cated to compare with the damage 

 done in other states, often far removed. 



(9) On account of local corporate 

 power, individual states are unable or 

 unwilling to control the trust. 



(10) National interstate legislation 

 is the only remedy. 



(11) The recent ruling of the su- 

 preme court in the case of the state 

 of Kansas vs. Colorado, regarding ir- 

 rigating waters, is applicable to this 

 subject, id. est., forest influences. 



(12) The abandonment of many 

 thousand square miles of former for- 

 est areas by lumbermen, after remov- 

 ing all the timber, forces the worthless 

 remaining land upon the state, which 

 can realize no income 'from it, but must 

 maintain it at great expense to the 

 people. 



(13) The loss to the nation from the 

 existence of so large an area of non- 

 taxable, barren property. 



(14) Necessity of importing from 

 abroad the timber required after re- 

 moval of our forests. 



(151 The greatest curse possible is 

 a treeless nation. 



Navigable rivers flowing through 

 many states have their volumes in- 

 creased immoderately, at times, and 

 are again shrunken so as to obstruct 

 navigation, from the rapid melting of 

 the ice and snow upon the mountains 

 in far distant states, which has been 

 caused by the removal of the forests 

 upon these mountains and valleys. For 

 this the injured localities have no re- 

 course except by National legislation. 



River and Harbor improvement are 

 increasing annually because there are 

 no forests to retard the flow of water, 

 while the levees of many states have 

 frequent crevasses and must be main- 

 tained at great expense from the same 



cause. Yet no state is afflicted by the 

 injuries caused within its borders, and 

 cannot alone control the cause which 

 exists in another commonwealth. 



Under existing circumstances it is 

 impossible to induce great lumbering 

 corporations to adopt conservative 

 methods in their operations, the cream 

 is skimmed from the property, im- 

 mense waste occurs, the continuation 

 of the forests being farthest from their 

 aims. 



Under these conditions the land is 

 being rapidly denuded of all that 

 gives it value, the time rapidly ap- 

 proaching when the entire forest area 

 will disappear. 



The rocky, mountainous lands thus 

 stripped of the timber will be thrown 

 back upon the nation, or state in 

 which they are situated, the soil soon 

 eroded, leaving the property valueless 

 for taxation and productive of no in- 

 come for the support of the nation. 



These are ample reasons for strin- 

 gent restrictive laws under which the 

 forests may continue productive to the 

 country. 



THE POLICY OF FOREST RE- 

 SERVES. 



Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, is mak- 

 ing a determined assault upon the 

 President's policy of establishing For- 

 est Reserves. 



In a recent address at Spokane, 

 Washington, he said : , 



'T purpose to urge the adoption of 

 my bill, introduced at the last session, 

 when the next Congress convenes. This 

 is designed to take out of the hands 

 of the president the right to establish 

 any more forest reserves. No one in 

 Idaho indorses the administration's for- 

 est reserve policy, as applied in our 

 state." 



A correspondent in Spokane, in a 

 letter to Arboriculture, says : 



"The creation of four new forest re- 

 serves in Northern Idaho and the ex- 

 tention of two others, adding to the 

 reserve area of that state 7,406,556 



