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3. The separate states in which for- are located. The amount handed over 



est reserves are proposed should pay for by the National Government to such 



them out of their respective state treas- state treasuries last year was $444,379. 



uries. The states and territories in which 



The answer to this statement is that, there are now National Forest Reserves 

 with the exception of New York, and are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Col- 

 one of two others, the states separately orado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Michi- 

 cannot afford it. gan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, 



One of the most needed of these re- Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, 



serves is in the state of New Hamp- Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, 



shire, about the headwaters of many of Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, 



the great rivers of New England, al- Not one state of the old thirteen that 



ready shrunken in volume, already dam- fought the Revolution is benefited di- 



aged as a result of the neglect by a Na- rectly by these reserves not one state 



tional Government that has been lavish that helped to pay for the Louisiana 



in its expenditures to save woods and Purchase is directly benefited by these 



water-power and water supply for the reserves not one state that fought the 



states beyond the Mississippi. The lit- war of 1812 is benefited directly by these 



tie state of New Hampshire cannot af- reserves not one state taxed to pay the 



ford, with her small population and bill for the cession of Florida by Spain 



rocky soil, to buy and manage such a is benefited directly by these reserves, 



reserve. Yet none of these states, now neg- 



The Nation, however, out of taxes, lected in this respect by Congress, 

 to which New Hampshire contributes, grudges the present expenditure or re- 

 has maintained National Forest Re- grets the treasure of blood as well as 

 serves of 25,605,700 acres for the rich money so freely given in the past, 

 state of California alone, and last year Nor would this comparison now be 

 added 2,364,483 acres to the National made were it not for the claim that the 

 Forest Reserves located in that state. separate states, not the Nation, should 



If it be said that these forests are part now pay for new reserves, 



of the National domain, it may be an- No existing National Forest Reserve 



swered : Was it not the whole Nation has been acquired and paid for, none 



that paid for the National domain? is even now exclusively maintained, by 



California and her citizens receive the the people of any state or states directly 



direct benefit of these forests. New benefited by it. 



England does not. It was not Cali- The forest reserves in Wyoming and 



fornia alone that paid the bills of the Oregon are in the very strip of land 



war with Mexico. The support in Cali- granted by the King of England to the 



fornia, led by one of her governors, colonists of Massachusetts Bay. The 



of Appalachian reserves shows that claim of England to them was drowned 



Californians themselves appreciate that in the blood of Lexington and Bunker 



such a course is not merely generous, Hill and the states themselves exist to- 



but just. day as Wyoming and Oregon in part 



There are altogether 194,505,325 acres because Massachusetts relinquished her 



of National Forest Reserve. They are c l a i m to these lands and give them to 



cared for by fifteen hundred National t j ie ]\T a tion. 



Forest officers. The total National ap- Washington is American and not 



propriation for last year was $3,908,- Canadian because a Massachusetts sea 



249-32- These forests yield a revenue, ^ Vancouver on a voyage of 



and though these reserves were pro- & -^^ 



vided at the cost of all the states, the _ 



distribution to the states, one-quarter River after his ship. Idaho and 



of all the gross revenues of the National son, Montana, Wyoming, the 



Forest Reserve, goes only to the states and Oklahoma and the National domain 



in which these existing forest reserves and forest reserves therein were not 



