1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



581 



IMPORTS PINE SEEDLINGS. 



"In the spring of 1906 the board 

 imported from Germany and had 

 planted on the Pilisbury reserve 20,- 

 000 white pine seedlings two years 

 old. They were received well packed 

 in moss and heather and cost at the 

 reserve y 2 cent each. As there was 

 some doubt of their being in a per- 

 fectly fresh condition they were plant- 

 ed four in a spot, the spots four feet 

 apart, where the ground was bare, and 

 in brush two in a spot, the spots six 

 feet apart. There were enough, there- 

 fore, to plant only six and a half acres. 

 In October last they were found to be 

 almost all of them in a thrifty condi- 

 tion. 



"During July, August and Septem- 

 ber of 1905 an examination of the so- 

 called Burntside forest, being the 20,- 

 000 acres granted to the state for for- 

 estry purposes by act of Congress, 

 April 28, 1904, was made for the state 

 by T. L. Duncan, of Northome, with 

 the aid of three assistants, and a for- 

 est working plan for the tract has been 

 published. A number of government 

 stakes ought to be restored on this 

 land, a nursery started, some buildings 

 erected, trails and if possibe roads 

 opened. The board regards any money 

 well spent on this or any reserve as an 

 investment. 



ASK ANNUAL APPROPRIATION. 



"The law of 1903 authorized the 



Forestry Board to purchase for forest 

 reserves at not exceeding $2.50 per 

 acre land adapted for forestry, but not 

 to exceed in any one township one- 

 eighth of the area thereof. No money 

 has been appropriated to carry the law 

 into effect, and we recommend an ap- 

 propriation of not less than $25,000 

 annually to make the law effective. 



"We recommend that provision be 

 made for the examination by expe- 

 rienced and competent land examiners 

 of the remaining vacant public lands 

 of the United States within this state, 

 a portion of which are supposed to be 

 adapted for forestry, for the purpose 

 of ascertaining what tracts therein will 

 be available for agriculture and what 

 tracts would be only suitable for for- 

 estry, with a view of having the for- 

 estry lands, if any, turned over to the 

 state or administrated by the United 

 States Government for forestry pur- 

 poses. 



"The undersigned believe the time 

 has come when reforestation should be 

 undertaken by the state in a business- 

 like manner and on a larger scale than 

 at present, and that it would be wise 

 to make a suitable beginning during 

 this period of prosperity." 



The board is composed of the fol- 

 lowing members : S. M. Owen, presi- 

 dent ; C. C. Andrews, secretary ; A. C. 

 Wedge, M. M. Williams, Samuel B. 

 Green, F. Weyerhaeuser, and W. B. 

 Douglas. 



GRAZING FEES WILL BE COLLECTED 



ON RESERVES 



Regulations Unmodified by Recent Decision of 

 Federal Judge Misapprehension Corrected 



A RECENT decision of a federal 

 ** judge has been widely comment- 

 ed upon throughout the West on the 

 supposition that it declared illegal the 

 regulation of grazing on forest re- 

 serves and the system of charging for 

 grazing permits. As a matter of fact, 



the decision, which was handed down 

 by Judge Whitson, of the United 

 States District Court for eastern Wash- 

 ington, in the case of the United States 

 vs. Matthews, has no bearing what- 

 ever upon the legality of the grazing 

 regulations or of grazing fees, which 



