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the sum of its splendid deeds." To clothe the waste 

 places of our country with thrifty revenue-yielding forest 

 would be a splendid deed! 



NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES. 



The compiled statutes of the United States, page 1539, 

 provide that " no public forest reservation shall be estab- 

 lished except to improve and protect the forest within the 

 reservation or for the purpose of securing favorable con- 

 ditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply 

 of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 

 United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these 

 provisions, or of the act providing for such reservations, to 

 authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for 

 the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes, than for 

 forest purposes." 



Any mature timber in a United States forest reserve 

 may be sold at its appraised value. Any person, under 

 the regulations of the Interior Department, can enter a 

 forest reserve for all lawful purposes, including that of 

 prospecting, locating and developing the mineral resources 

 thereof; and, more than that, can have free use of timber 

 and stone carrying on his work. Besides, the Interior 

 Department may restore to the public domain any public 

 lands in a forest reserve, which, after due personal ex- 

 amination by a competent person, shall be found better 

 for mining or for agricultural purposes than for forest use. 

 The setting apart of lands that are suitable for the pur- 

 pose as a forest reserve is, therefore, beneficial to the 

 public, though it may not be beneficial to the speculator 

 in timber. 



FORESTERS NEEDED. 



Some of the brightest young men in Minnesota are 

 studying forestry. The United States government will 

 soon want fully 300 trained foresters to have charge of the 



