102 C. A. SCHENCK. 



2. Provides for the protection of the forest reserves under 

 regulations by the Secretary of the Interior against fire and 

 depredations. 



3. Provides for the sale, from the forest reserves, of dead, 

 matured, and large growth of trees. 



4. Provides for the free use of timber and fuelwood by 

 settlers, residents, miners, and prospectors for minerals, 



5. Provides that the jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, for 

 persons living within the forest reserves, shall not be affected 

 or changed by reason of the existence of such reserves, except 

 so far as the punishment of offences against the United States 

 therein is concerned. 



6. Provides rather ambiguously that all waters in such re- 

 serves may be used for mining, milling, irrigation, either under 

 the State laws or under the laws of the United States. 



7. Provides for the restoration to the vacant public domain, 

 by proclamation of the President, of public lands embraced 

 within the limits of any forest reserve found to be mineral or 

 agricultural. 



8. Provides that mineral lands within forest reserves are open 

 to entry hereafter as heretofore; which means to say that, as 

 far as mineral entries are concerned, the national forests are 

 non-reserved for public use. 



From 1897 to 1Q07, it might be said, all opposition to the 

 forest reserves in the west became dormant. It is worthy of note 

 that the lumbermen of the west have never objected to the 

 establishment of forest reserves; that the opposition of the 

 cattlemen and sheepmen has been changed into support through 

 the wise policy of the Forest Service ; that the irrigation interests 

 have been until quite recently^ very favorable to the establish- 

 ment of national forests ; and that the fight against the national 

 forest policy in recent years is one of state versus nation rather 

 than a fight of any definite industrial interest against the Forest 

 Service. 



Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt had increased by 1904 

 the number of the national forest reserves to 53, and the ag- 

 gregate acreage thereof to 63 million acres. The General Land 

 Office, from 1897 on and from time to time, was preparing 



