1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



497 



They found this out so soon as men 

 settled in Idaho, in Wyoming, and 

 Montana, and in other states which 

 are called "irrigation states," of the 

 western half of the continent. But it 

 is just as true of Rhode Island, of New 

 York, of the Carolinas, and of Tennes- 



shall necessarily make one connected 

 territory, but it is proposed that the 

 national authorities shall control the 

 cutting of timber there. This can only 

 be done if the nation holds the proper- 

 ty as the King of Prussia holds such 

 property in the Prussian forests or the 



Logging the Steep Slopes in the White Mountains 



see, as it is true for Idaho, Wyoming, 

 md Montana. 



It is now proposed that a consider- 

 ible body of land shall be reserved in 

 :he highlands of the Carolinas, of Ten- 

 lessee, of Virginia, and perhaps of 

 Kentucky, where the nation shall make 

 mre that the forests are not destroyed. 

 [t is not proposed that these holdings 



King of Bavaria holds the property in 

 the Bavarian forests. There is ample 

 experience which shows that the na- 

 tional investment in such forests will 

 produce a steady revenue quite suffi- 

 cient to justify such expenditure, even 

 if it were regarded simply as an in- 

 vestment. In the case of Prussia, for 

 instance, in the year 1902, after the 



