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INDEX 



Otis, Representative, 130 

 Overman, Senator, 209 



Pacheco, Representative, 60 



Pacific Northwest, timber ownership in, 



318-324, 328, 329 

 Paddock, Senator, 92, 122 

 Page, Representative, 57, 60 

 Patterson, Senator and Representative, 



57, 60, 80, 159, 197 

 Payne, Representative, 274 

 Payson, Representative, 78, 116 

 Pearson, Representative, 209 

 Penn, William, interest in forestry, 21 

 Pennsylvania, state forest reserves in, 



144* 

 Perjury, difficulty of punishing, 245 

 Perkins, Senator, 199 

 Perkins, Representative, 285 

 Permit Act, 239, 241, 242 

 Pettigrew, Senator, 108, 115, 116, 132, 



133, 139, 140, 173, 180, 185 

 Pickler, Representative, 116, 123 

 Pinchot, Gifford, 122, 129, 141, 143, 149, 



150, 153, 156, 158, 161, 172, 174, 175, 

 • 194, 196, 201-205, 227, 232 n., 254, 270, 



282, 284, 288, 293, 295, 367, 370, 373, 



377, 378 

 Piatt, Senator, 173 

 Plumb, Senator, 92, 110, 115, 116 

 Poehler, Representative, 89 

 Political party platforms, 149 

 Pollard, Representative, 210 

 Pools in the lumber industry, 340 

 Portland, Astoria & McMinville Rail- 

 road, 249 

 Posterity, objection to saving for, 53, 



271 

 Power, Representative, 229 

 Pray, Representative, 237 

 Predatory animals in forest reserves, 



306 

 Preemption Act, 48, 56, 79, 99 

 "Press bureau" of the Forest Service, 



the, 287, 288 

 Price regulation, government, 363-366 

 Prices, efforts by lumbermen to fix, 338- 



350 

 Pritchard, Senator, 208 



Private ownership of standing timber, 

 cost of, 357-359 



Private timber owners, advice and as- 

 sistance to, 154, 299-302 



Profits of lumbermen, 354, 364 



Profits of timber owners, 355, 358 



Progressive party, 149, 201-205 



Protection of forests, act of 1897, 133, 

 141 ; appropriations for, 41, 100, 107, 

 141, 154, 155, 158, 159, 243; difficulties 

 in the way of, 84, 85, 90, 91; need of, 

 119-122; under Secretary Schurz, 40, 

 86 



Public Lands Commission of 1880, 98, 

 99 



Public Lands Commission of 1903, 150, 

 227, 264 



Public Lands Convention at Denver, 

 174, 175 



Public sale, 49, 56, 58, 59, 72, 99, 331 



Puter, S. A. D., 187, 225 



Quarles, Senator, 229 

 Quay, Senator, 69 



Railroad Indemnity Act, 54, 55, 86 

 Railroad land grants, 53-55, 102, 104- 



106, 246, 253, 327-330 

 Railroads, tree planting by, 30, 37, 38, 



149 

 Railroads, trespass by, 83 

 Range lands, conservation of, 149, 308 

 Ranger stations, objection to, 260, 261 

 Rawlins, Senator and Representative, 



124, 125, 134, 140, 158, 173 

 Receipts from national forests, 284 

 Recreational uses of the national for- 

 ests, 305 

 Redwood lands, 319, 320 

 Reeder, Representative, 236 

 Reforestation, 309, 310, 361 

 Remedies for present situation in the 



lumber industry, 362 

 Republican party, hostile to reserves, 



201-205 

 Resources, withdrawal of other than 



timber, 270 

 Retailers of lumber, price activities 



among, 342 



