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and the pre-emption and settlement policy of the Government r 



of the arable portions of the public in the highest < 



lands have rendered it important that ward all interest-, and peculiar! 1 . 



we should reclaim the waste places the rights of tli 



and make them productive through a whole. We are havin 



wi>e irrigation system which lies be- the excellent influence of th 



yond the capacity of individual ef- rules of our Forestry Ilim-au in the 



fort." treatment of the forests in the north- 

 ern portion of this State. Th. 



Kx-Gov. Geo. C. Pardee, of Cali- have learned that the purpo- 



fornia, sums up the problem of refor- estry is not crudely to pn 



estation as follows: by forbidding the cutting of trees, but 



"The natural storage reservoirs, to encourage the proper cutting of 



from which the now arid country once trees so that forests may renew th' 



received its moisture, lay beneath the selves. The McCloud Lumber Com- 



forests that once covered the now pany, of McCloud, near Mt. Shasta, is 



naked mountains. These forests now doing all of its cutting under the 



should be restored." direction of the Bureau of Forestry. 



Continuing, he adds: "Thanks to with results satisfactory to it and high- 

 President Roosevelt and Gifford Pin- ly beneficial to the country. None of 

 chot, the head of the U. S. Forest Ser- the good things that have come 

 vice, both of whom are true and loyal pass under President Roosevelt's ad- 

 friends to California, the Government ministration will redound more to his 

 of the United States is doing much to credit than the development of the 

 solve these problems that confront Bureau of Forestry and the extension 

 us." of its influence and authority. \Yith 



this will rank, I am satisfied, when the 



J. O. Davidson, Governor of Wis- years unfold their result, the benefi- 



consin, is heartily in favor of National cient workings of the National Irri- 



Forests, and testifies as follows: gation Law." 



"I am pleased to advise you that I 



am always glad to do what I can to The Governor of Utah. John C. 

 assist the cause of forestry, both State Cutler, endorses the National Forest 

 and National, believing that the pro- policy of the Government in tin fol- 

 tection and proper use of the forests lowing convincing statement : 

 is one of the most important questions "I am strongly in favor of the Na- 

 which confront us to-day. I am tional Forest policy of the Govern - 

 heartily in favor of the President's ment. The preservation of the ; 

 policy in creating National Forests, the conservation of water, and the 

 as they mean timber for the settlers transmission of an adequate timber 

 now and in the future, and the protec- supply and consequent wealth to com- 

 tion of those streams which are all- ing generations demand the enfo-- 

 important to the people of the West, ment of this policy. Opposition to it 

 The remaining forests in the Appala- is usually based on short ' mi? 

 chian and White Mountains should be understanding, or selfish- 

 conserved, and I trust that Congress interest of the bona fide settler and 

 will appropriate the money for their honest home-maker. th>- Government 

 purchase." should maintain the National I 



already created and establish otl- 



To President Benjamin Ide Wheel- where necessary." 

 er, the distinguished head of the Uni- 

 versity of California, we arc indebted From Charleston. South Carolina. 



for this splendid and convincing te-ti- comes the following from \ttop 



mony : Vn-'iistine T. Smythe. which i 



"In my opinion, the present forest cially interesting in that it gives a 



