to speak. You realize that the disoiotion of Porest Officers 

 is to "bo exorcised with a air consideration for the pur- 

 chaser. The purchaser doesn't knew that, and, if human 

 nature moans anything, a purchaser would "be foolish to go 

 into a proposition with the more general faith that the 

 officials will treat him fairly. lie is entitled to a def- 

 inite assurance on all points. If you give it f will got 

 better prices, and you. will got noro competition. 



This thought oocurs to me as porhaps of interest 

 to you - There hao been some objection to the sale of tim- 

 ber in lar^.e amounts. Of course if the sale of timber in 

 large amounts were anything lilio , - at all comparable to - 

 the sale of oil to the Standard Oil Coiirpair^, or in any way 

 a monopoly, that would bo of course a sound objection. T7e 

 all loiow that nothing of that Irind exists in the timber 

 business. ^ sale in large amounts won't foster any monopo- 

 ly having a bearing on lumber prices. The real objection 

 is that it robs the small man of an opportunity to put up a 

 little mill and go into the timber business. I feel that 

 the C-overnniont is not in the business of conserving the 

 small man r o right to go into the lumber business. It seems 

 to me that the Government^ duty is to conserve the timber 

 for the consumer. Everything that the Government does is 

 referable to the terms upon which the timber is finally to 

 be sold to the consumer. I hardly think that the sale of 



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