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not pay as high a dividend during its the Gallatin Forest Reserves in Mon- 

 earlier years if such a conservative policy tana. The Utah Legislature had memo- 

 is adopted, but in the long run its pro- rialized Congress to grant a part of the 

 moters would be justified in encouraging Fish Lake tract for use as a State park, 

 the very movement they now seek to As it is difficult to secure the passage of 



such a measure Representative King, of 

 Utah, concluded that a forest reserve 

 would answer practically as well. The 



oppose. 



Much of the land in the Sacramento 



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ountains is not fit for agriculture. It 

 is destined by nature to produce forest 

 crops and nothing else. If its forest 

 cover were removed it would sooner or 

 later become a barren waste, unproduc- 

 tive and incapable of holding in check 

 the rapid descent of waters that might 

 otherwise be utilized for irrigation. The 

 retention of lands better suited for agri- 

 culture or mining has never been advo- 



lands embraced within the limits of this 

 reserve are all of a mountainous character 

 and surround the lake from which it 

 takes its name. Its area is 67,480 acres. 

 The Gallatin Forest Reserves include the 

 even-numbered sections on a tract that 

 is drained by the Gallatin River near 

 Bozeman. These 640-acre reserves, 

 whose aggregate area is 40,320 acres, 

 cated even by the most ardent forestry were created at the request of Mr. S. M. 

 enthusiast. Moreover, it is not proposed Emery, Director of the Montana Agri- 

 to withhold the products of the forests of cultural Experiment Station, and others 

 any reserve from the use of the people who were equally as interested. The 

 for whose benefit all reserves are created. odd-numbered sections in the tract are 



The regulations of the Department of the 

 Interior make ample provisions for the 

 use of timber from the reserves for do- 

 mestic, agricultural, and mining purposes. 

 The establishment of a reserve within the 



embraced within the limits of a railroad 

 land grant, thus necessitating the creation 

 of separate reserves of each of the even- 

 numbered sections. Although technically 

 the Federal Government will have no 



bounds of the region indicated would not jurisdiction over these unreserved lands, 



interfere with the rights of any one, but yet it is plain that they will be benefited 



in the end it would inure to the benefit for they will at least be protected from 



of all. the ravages of fire by the forest patrol. 



New Forest Reservation. 



By proclamation of President McKin- 

 ley, dated January 30, the Trabuco 

 Canon Forest Reserve in Southern Cali- 

 fornia was enlarged by the addition of a 

 contiguous area estimated to contain 

 50,000 acres. The total area is now 

 109,920 acres. It was enlarged as the 

 result of the petition of the residents of 

 adjoining valleys. 



On February 10 two new reservations 

 were created by executive proclamation 

 the Fish Lake Reserve in Utah and 



Reference is made elsewhere in this 

 issue of The Forester to excessive tax- 

 ation of pine lands in Minnesota. In a 

 recent letter on this subject Mr. H. B. 

 Ayers, of Carlton, Minn., states that in 

 1898 he paid $3.94 in taxes on a tract of 

 thirty six acres of pine land which is 

 valued at S3. 00 per acre, virtually at a 

 rate of 3.64 per cent per annum on the 

 actual market value. On another tract 

 of forty acres, also valued at $3.00 per 

 acre, the tax was $6.58, amounting to a 

 rate of 5.4 per cent. 



