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ihe Avaters of Emma Matilda and the Twin Ocean lakes. Eeservoirs 

 also will be built around the Heniys Lake counti\y, and the storage 

 capacity of these various reservoirs will suffice to reclaim from 

 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 acres of new land, none of which can be culti- 

 vated with the existing water supply. In addition to this, the build- 

 ing of these great reservoirs and the conservation of the flood waters 

 Avill make sure the adequate supply of water for the lands in the 

 KSnake River Valley Avhich are already under cultivation. The pro- 

 tection of forests is one of the very great factors in this great devel- 

 opment. 



I quote now Senator Heyburn's protest against Henrys Lake 

 Reserve. In all my quotations from Senator Heyburn's protest I 

 use his exact language. 



The Senator protests — 



Against all that part of the Henrys Lake Reservation covering Beaver and 

 Spencer stations and the adjacent country, and to all that part lying south of 

 the standard parallel and extending eastward into the Yellowstone National 

 Park. 



The reason for my objection to this is that the growing towns along the rail- 

 roads should not be included within a reservation. That the reservation south 

 of the standard parallel and extending to the national park amounts simply to 

 an enlargement of the Yellowstone Park, in Idaho, without carrying with it the 

 privileges of the park, and practically shuts off entry from Idaho into the 

 national park over its own border. Much of the lands included within this 

 proposed reserve are not timber lands at all and never will be. An examination 

 that would result in reporting them as fit for timber reserves must have been 

 made either at a great distance or very superficially. They are largely grazing 

 lands. 



In his protest against this reserve Senator Heyburn has absolutely 

 ignored facts. He assumes something wdiich does not exist at all and 

 then objects to his own supposition. I am surprised that in all the 

 protests which my colleague has made he has been so utterly oblivious 

 to or careless of facts. 



Beaver is on the Utah Xorthern Railroad, a few^ miles above Spen- 

 cer. Beaver never was much of a town and never could be, but what 

 there was of it moved to Spencer some years ago, until now there are 

 but tAvo or three families liAdng there and about one-half dozen 

 empty houses. It is abandoned and abandoned for all times to come. 



Spencer is a bright little place. It has a hotel, a good-sized store, 

 a saloon, and a few houses. I doubt if Spencer will ever grow much, 

 because there is no good agricultural coimtry near it. However, 

 Spencer is not in the proposed reserve at all. 



How the part south of the standard parallel (presumably the third, 

 although not specified) will " shut off entry from Idaho into the 

 national park " is not easy to see, for not a road or trail crosses this 

 mountainous strip, which contributes largely to the Avater suppty of 

 the Henrys Fork of Snake River. In addition, while it is not to be 

 expected that there Avill be any road building over this mountainous 

 strip, the existence of a reserve would not in any w^ay affect such road 

 building. Senator Heyburn should have known that every privilege 

 of a national park is alloAved in a forest reserve, besides A^ery many 

 more priA^leges. 



As I haA^e stated aboAe. this reserve, as proposed, protects Beaver 

 Creek, Camas Creek, and Henrys Fork of Snake River, and any 

 restriction of its area Avill endanger the irrigation from these streams. 



