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CHAPTER IX. 



PASTURAGE IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS. 



In the San Jacinto range, all the public forest lands are practically 

 without pasture. 



In the San Bernardino range, there is no public land that has pas- 

 ture of value in the forests. There is, however, more or less scattered 

 pasture on private holdings, which, with the customary use of adja- 

 cent, unimportant public pasture in forests has brought sheep and 

 stock into the mountains irregularly. The whole of this pasture is of 

 comparatively small value. 



In the Pine Mountain reserve, there is rather more pasturage than 

 in the San Bernardino range. 



In the Trabuco reserve, there is very little. 

 In the Sierra Madre range there is very little pasturage, and this 

 little is very difficult of access. This reserve is in our county, and for 

 that reason, we will find interest in going into its pasture question 

 somewhat in detail. 



This extensive and precipitous range has not in Its entirety as much 

 pasture as a single high Sierra township. From repeated personal 

 visits, I believe it safe to say and well within limits, that the entire 

 range would not carry five thousand sheep or eight hundred horses. If 

 it could carry such an amount of stock, how infinitesimal would be the 

 value of that interest, compared to the value of the interests of the re- 

 sorts, power companies, and above all, of irrigators on its water-sheds. 

 We still say nothing of the valley lands subject to injury or destruction 

 by torrents. The stocl; interests In the mountains is nothing. In fact, 

 I do not believe that the entire Sierra Madre reserve could carry two 

 hundred and fifty horses during the open season. 



The range has, however, long been used on and off by a few 

 horse owners. Sheep have been a small factor in this reserve. The only 

 occasion when even an attempt was made in an extensive way to In- 



