574 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION December 



which shall be able to raise funds by to the extent of millions of dollars by 



the sale of -bonds, said districts to be every state and territory, while the 



organized only upon approval by the benefits of national administration will 



Secretary of the Interior who shall b e vastly extended. We commend this 



employ the engineers of the Reclam- . 



" . F , u subject to the earnest attention of the 

 ation service in the construction of 



district irrigation works. Thus the re- legislatures of our western states and 



clamation fund will be supplemented territories. 



THE RELATION OF FOREST RESERVES 

 TO THE MINING INDUSTRY 



BY 

 MAJOR F. A. FENN 



SUPERINTENDENT OF FOREST RESERVES IN IDAHO 

 AND THE GALLATIN RESERVE I N MONTANA 



Ever since metalliferous mining first covering such forest reservations." 

 became an important industry in the And further still : "And any miner- 

 United* States the Government has a j i an d s in any forest reservation 

 dealt with it in the most liberal man- w hich have been or which may be 

 ner. The steadfast policy has been to shown to be such, and subject to entry 

 stimulate the prospecting of the coun- under the existing mining laws of the 

 try and encourage the development of United States and the rules and reg- 

 its mineral resources. Whatever tends ulations applying thereto, shall con- 

 to retard the progress of the miner's t j nue to be subject to such location 

 work contravenes that policy, anything an( j entry, notwithstanding any pro- 

 calculated to advance his interest ac- visions herein contained." 

 cords with it. While the act contains the above 



Congress in the enactment of the quoted provisions, it also outlines a 



law authorizing the setting apart of pj an f or the preservation of the for- 



portions of the public domain as for- ests w i t hin the reserves and gives to 



est reserves consistently adhered to its tne Secretary of the Interior power 



course respecting mining when it pro- to elaborate the system and make it 



vided in that act as follows : effective ( by authorizing him to "make 



"It is not the purpose or intent of such rules and regulations and estab- 



these provisions, or of the act provid- lish such service as will insure the ob- 



ing for such reservations, to authorize jects of such reservations, namely, to 



the inclusion therein of lands more val- regulate their occupancy and use and 



uable for mineral therein, H to preserve the forests thereon from 



than for forest purposes." destruction." 



And further: "Nor shall anything Realizing the vital importance of the 



herein prohibit any person from en- mining industry to the national pros- 



tering upon such forest reservations perity and at the same time appre- 



for all proper and lawful purposes, in- dating the necessity of protecting the 



eluding that of prospecting, locating, forests for the benefit of the people, 



and developing the mineral resources the law-makers devised a scheme of 



thereof; Provided, that such persons forest protection that enables forest 



comply with the rules and regulations reserves to be maintained and the min- 



