1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



455 



chance to get possession of the beauti- 

 ful shores of the lake for speculative 

 purposes. I think these shores are 

 destined to be used as sites for hun- 

 dreds of summer cottages, and that 

 thousands of people, not only from 

 Minnesota cities and towns, but from 

 all the larger cities of the Mississippi 

 Valley, will here find rest and recrea- 

 tion. The Morris law will permit of 

 such a use of these shores, and did it 

 not I would favor an amendment for 

 promoting it. With a suitable system 

 of leasing cottage sites for this reser- 

 vation, under the supervision of the 

 Forest Service of the National Gov- 

 ernment, there can be built up the 

 finest summer resort in the world. 

 There can be no question but what if 



those who are intersted in the develop- 

 ment of this section will ask the Na- 

 tional Government to lay out a suitable 

 system of roads and driveways 

 through the reservation, the request 

 will be granted and would do very 

 much to hasten its development. It is 

 more than probable that the Govern- 

 ment would lay out roads in this sec- 

 tion much as it has laid out roads in 

 the Yellowstone National Park. 



The present Cass Lake business 

 ideals and methods are destined to dis- 

 appear, but in their place will come a 

 new Cass Lake with higher and better 

 business ideals and methods, and a 

 prosperity established on a sure foun- 

 dation, compared with which the pres- 

 ent progress will seem trite and weak. 



PROTECTION OF WHITE MOUNTAIN 



FORESTS 



BY 



ALLEN CHAMBERLAIN 



'MEW England's sons and daugh- 

 ters, whether living at home or 

 settled far and wide in other sections 

 of our land, always think of Mt. 

 Washington and the Presidential 

 Range, with their flanking and en- 

 circling mountains, as being worthy 

 to rank among the most superb gems 

 of our national crown. They would 

 not claim for the region the distinc- 

 tion of possessing the very finest na- 

 tural beauty in the land, nor herald 

 it as the largest "wonder of the age," 

 but they do fondly believe, and with 

 good right and reason, that there is a 

 vast store of beauty and charm con- 

 tained within those comparatively nar- 

 row limits. All this might be set 

 down to a proper local pride, were it 

 not for the fact that hundreds of peo- 

 ple from other sections of the country, 

 resort there summer after summer, 

 and ardently endorse the native New 

 Englander's praise of the White 

 Mountains. 



It is unnecessary to enlarge upon 

 that topic of the economic value of 

 natural beauty in the life of the na- 

 tion, through its power to refresh and 

 inspire men for the directly practical 

 work of the world, for that is gen- 

 erally conceded to-day. But those 

 mountains mean something more than 

 tonic force to New England, and 

 therefore to the nation of which she is 

 a patriotic member. Located within 

 the political boundaries of a single 

 state of the group they nevertheless 

 have their influence on the trade and 

 commerce of all the neighboring com- 

 monwealths. The mountain forests 

 have long been a principal source of 

 lumber supply, and have guarded in- 

 numerable fountain heads which feed 

 some of the most important water 

 powers of the northeast. 



For a time the lumlH-nnan was con- 

 tent to take only the mature timber 

 from those mountains, and of that 

 merely such as stood in the valleys and 



