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Service by the water-power interests. The right to 

 charge for water-power development was, however, 

 sustained by the Attorney-General. 



"In 1907, the area of the National Forests was 

 increased by Presidential proclamation more than 

 forty-three million acres ; the plant necessary for the 

 full use of the Forests, such as roads, trails, and tele- 

 phone-lines, began to be provided on a large scale; 

 the interchange of field and office men, so as to pre- 

 vent the antagonism between them which is so de- 

 structive of efficiency in most great businesses, was 

 established as a permanent policy ; and the really ef- 

 fective management of the enormous area of the 

 National Forests began to be secured. 



"With all this activity in the field, the progress 

 of technical forestry and popular education was not 

 neglected. In 1907, for example, sixty-one publica- 

 tions on various phases of forestry, with a total of 

 more than a million copies, were issued, as against 

 three publications, with a total of eighty-two thou- 

 sand copies, in 1901. By this time, also, the opposi- 

 tion of the servants of the special interests in Con- 

 gress to the Forest Service had become strongly 

 developed, and more time appeared to be spent in the 

 yearly attacks upon it during the passage of the ap- 

 propriation bills than on all other Government Bu- 

 reaus put together. Every year the Forest Service 

 had to fight for its life. 



"One incident in these attacks is worth record- 

 ing. While the Agricultural Appropriation Bill was 



