i6o Proceedings op the 



money needed to pay for the land, perhaps without 

 exacting a promise, so the claimant could swear "he 

 took the land for his own exclusive use and profit" 

 and "had not promised to mortgage or deed." Later 

 he could change his mind. 



Still more ridiculous and criminally wrong was the 

 lieu land law, by which anyone claiming within a 

 forest reserve, relinquished to the Government, and 

 selected equal areas outside the reserve. 



Floating on Puget Sound upon a summer's day, 

 when gentle zephyrs fill the sail of the boat, one's 

 languid gaze wanders back over vast areas of dense, 

 dark green woodlands, on up the slopes of the moun- 

 tains, until arrested by the towering snow-cap of 

 Rainier, 14,000 feet above; to the south, not seen, 

 stand St. Helen, Adams, Hood, and Jeflferson, of 

 nearly equal height, and to the west glisten the Olympic 

 range with long reaches of snow-capped peaks. Part 

 of these peaks are in the Rainier, part in the Olympic 

 and part in the Cascade reserve, and part are also 

 within railroad grants, and for these glaciers and rocks 

 our Government has exchanged some of her best tim- 

 bered townships. Along the lower side of some of 

 these mountains, loggers have been busy with axe and 

 fire, and for their denuded, fire-swept lands, our Gov- 

 ernment has given fresh timbered areas. Many men 

 who have secured a quarter section, under the 

 Homestead or Pre-emption or Timber Act, have been 

 investigated for fraud. These larger selections are 

 authorized by Act of Congress and have not been 

 questioned. 



In the home of the fir, the spruce, and the cedar, the 

 song of the axe, the saw, and the hammer begins with 

 the dawn and rests only with the close of the day. 

 Go where you will the crop of the centuries is being 



