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The Congressional party invited to 

 explore the country advocated for a 

 Government reserve by the Minnesota 

 National Park and Forestry Association, 

 left Chicago Thursday, September 28, 

 arrived in St. Paul the next morning, 

 left the same evening over the Great 

 Northern Railway, and at last accounts 

 had reached Walker, Minn., where a 

 houseboat was taken for a trip down 

 Leech Lake. The original itinerary was 

 changed so as to visit Otter Tail Point, 

 where a council was being held by the 

 Pillager and Chippewa Indians. After 

 meeting several influential chiefs, the 

 party returned to Walker for a banquet 



in their honor in the evening. On 

 Thursday, October 5, the party was 

 expected to proceed by special train to 

 Duluth, thence to Minneapolis and Chi- 

 cago, concluding the journey on Octo- 

 ber 7. 



The present plan of the Association 

 is to ask that only 800,000 acres be set 

 aside now, to begin the new park. This 

 area would include seventy lakes of con- 

 siderable size, besides several hundred 

 small ones, with a number of square 

 miles of finest White Pine trees. The 

 settlers in this region have become en- 

 thusiastic supporters of the plan, since 

 they have learned of its true scope. 



The Example of Pennsylvania. 



Reappointment of a Worthy Official in Spite of Political Clamor 



Unanimous Approval by the Press. 



The Governor of Pennsylvania, on many lectures in the interest of forestry 



and has written several books on the 

 subject. 



September 18, reappointed for four years 

 as State Commissioner of Forestry, Dr. 

 J. T. Rothrock, vice president of the 



American Forestry Association for Penn- Governor Stone has done the State a 



sylvania. service and added luster to his adminis- 



tration by reappointing Joseph T. Roth- 

 Joseph Trimble Rothrock was born in rock as Commissioner of Forestry for 

 McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa., April another four years' term. This State 

 g, 1839. He was graduated from Har- first waked up to the necessity of doing 

 vard Universit) 7 in 1854, and in 1868 re- something for the preservation and per- 

 ceived his medical degree from the Uni- petuation of her forests about eight 

 versity of Pennsylvania. From March, years ago. This awakening was due 

 1865, to November, 1866, he was engaged largely to the public addresses and writ- 

 in exploration in British Columbia and ings of Professor Rothrock, and when 

 in Alaska. He had previously served in the Legislature in 1893 was moved to 

 the civil war. From 1869 to 1873 he authorize the appointment of a Forestry 

 was actively engaged in the practice of Commission to look into the subject of 

 medicine in Wilkesbarre. From 1873 to State forestry, Dr. Rothrock, though a 



1876 he was surgeon and botanist to the 

 Wheeler Exploring Expedition of the 

 United States Engineering Corps and 

 served in Colorado, Arizona, New Mex- 

 ico and California. The University of 



Republican, was selected by the Demo- 

 cratic Governor Pattison as the head of 

 that commission 



The State has made progress since 

 then. The Forestry Commission made 



Pennsylvania elected him Professor of a most instructive and valuable report 

 Botany in 1876, which position he still on the forests of the State. The corn- 

 holds, though granted leave of absence mission of two gave place to a single 

 since 1893 to serve as Commissioner of Commissioner of Forestry, to which 

 Forestry of the State. He has delivered place Governor Hastings appointed the 



