1904 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 13 



have a joint meeting with the Canadian Association are hereby instructed to 

 Association at St. Louis. make every proper effort to obtain from 

 Dr. Schenck thought that this meet- Congress at this session an appropriation 

 ing should be an international one, and of five hund.re'd thousand ($500,000) 

 Mr. Bowers offered a resolution that dollars, to be expended in the construe 

 this association appoint a committee to tion and improvement of roads and trails 

 take charge of an international forestry within the existing national forest re- 

 meeting at St. Louis, and that the com- serves. 



mittee consist of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Resolved, That the existing laws under 

 Mr. Gifford Pinchot, and Mr. Ernest which mineral entries are made within 

 Stewart, with such other members as forest reserves are a menace to the re- 

 they may desire to associate with them. serves, and that said laws should be so 

 This resolution was adopted unani- modified as to prevent mineral entries 

 mously . for other purposes than the development 

 Mr. Stewart then made some inter- of mineral resources, while affording the 

 esting remarks upon the progress of bona fide prospector full opportunity to 

 forest work in Canada, with especial perfect a mineral claim, 

 reference to the success that had at- Resolved, That we favor the passage 

 tended the effort to distribute young by Congress of an amendment to the 

 trees for planting by farmers. law regarding exchange of lands in- 

 After some discussion of tree planting eluded within a forest reserve, so that 

 by Mr. William L. Hall, Mr. Stewart, such exchanges or lieu selections shall 

 and Mr. Ernest Bruncken, the meeting be confined to lands of equivalent value 

 adjourned.. or similar condition as regards forest 



The tea at Mrs. Pinchot's was largely growth. 



attended, in spite of the inclement Resolved, That we are in entire ac- 



weather, and this pleasant opportunity cord with the efforts to repeal the Tim- 



of meeting socially was greatly appre- ber and Stone Act, and we favor as a 



ciated. substitute therefor the passage of an 



RESOLUTIONS act wn ^ cn sna ll confer authority upon 



the proper officer of the United States 



The following resolutions were unan- to sell timber growing on the public 



imously adopted by the Association : lands when such sale shall be for the 



WHEREAS the southern mountain for- public welfare, 

 ests are of national importance in their 



influence upon stream flow and upon JJ 4 Directors' Report. 

 timber supply, and whereas widespread 



loss has already resulted from their Advance of The forest movement in 



misuse, Forestry. the United States has 



Be it resolved. That this Association progressed so satisfac- 



lend its best efforts to procuring the ere- torily during the past year that your 



ation of a national forest reserve in the Directors feel justified in opening this 



Southern Appalachians. report with an exultant note. In no 



Resolved, That this Association, in its previous year has there been so solid an 



capacity as a national organization, en- advance in gaining public support. The 



dorse the effort to obtain a forest reserve lumbermen and railroads have become 



in the White Mountains of New Hamp- convinced that forestry is of the utmost 



shire. importance to them, and we welcome 



WHEREAS experience has demon- such support as a notable achievement 



strated that the first step in an effective of the year. 



administration of great forest areas is Public sentiment, too, in the West, 



rapid and easy means of communication, where the federal forest reserves are 



in order that fires may be extinguished located, has changed from an attitude 



in their incipient stage and depredations of hostility to one of friendliness, and 



anticipated: we confidently believe that it only re- 



Bc it resolved, That the officers of this quires a more complete understanding 



