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his astonishment and consternation, he 

 found it empty. 



So with (iur friends, the irrigalion- 

 ist>. In less thev awaken in time t" 

 the fact that if they ignore the protec- 

 tion i if the sources of their water sup- 

 ply, their ditches will he empty, they 

 will, like my friend who owned the 

 .auto, suddenly discover that thev have 



. 



paid too little attention to the most es- 

 sential re(|uirement. An empty gaso- 

 line tank will not furnish power to 



cured f< >rty millic 



I am auare that 1 d> > \i> <\. v -ice the 

 unanimous .sentiment of all citixen- of 

 our country, and particularly not that 

 a few non-resident owners of tinii 

 lands in California. 'l'he-e persons 

 have lieen particularly active of late, 

 both in the hall> of Cong ..nd in 



-'-called land conventions as well as 

 elsewhere, in endeavoring to en ate a 

 sentin.ent antagonistic to the present 

 National Forest policy, so al>ly con- 



|L - v 

 _ 



att* 



Hillside two miles west of Fredalba, San Bernardino County, California 

 Nearly all the timber cut away Erosicn begun Nothing to hold the 

 water 



propel a motor, neither will empty 

 ditches promote the growth of alfalfa. 

 Our present executive, far seeing, 

 and knowing the protection needed. 

 has wisely set aside tracts of timbered 

 lands at the sources of our water sup- 

 plies. National Forests have been so 

 extended under the administration of 

 Theodore Roosevelt that to-day we 

 have in California over _'O,ooo.ooo 

 acres of timbered lands in fore-t 

 serves, and it is my personal regret 

 "that the President could not have 



ducted under the direct! MI of <'iiffonl 

 1 'inchot. 



Thev say the lands should 

 thrown open for settlement by the 

 pei 'pie. What | 'itnde the 



sons who are fathering this movement 



exhibiting for the poor pe. 

 Let me say that their M-heine is to,, 

 transparent. We have had tOO many 

 demonstrations of tine b"die- of tim- 



1 land which have been acquired 

 by the pi-ople. only to b< traiisf, 

 to the control i .f the limber grab' 



