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will result in the failure of our prescribed boundaries to effect the 

 desired exclusion, but if they should do so in any case prompt correc- 

 tion will be made. 



Since the supposed inclusion of these towns constitutes nearly all 

 your stated grounds of objection, as I understand them, I presume 

 your protests will be withdrawn or greatly modified upon this expla- 

 nation. Perhaps we can agree in certain reserves as a result. 

 Very truly, yours, 



GiFFORD PixcHOT, Fovestev. 



Hon. W. B. Heyburx. Wallace. Id alio. 



Senator Dubois to the President. 



AYashixgtox, D. C, May S, 1905. 

 The Presidext: 



I propose to discuss the question of the establishment of forest 

 reserves by the Xational Government, directing my attention espe- 

 cially to the proposed new reserves in Idaho. 



I am a strong advocate of the policy of forest reserves, and specific- 

 ally indorse the Xational Administration in its proposed reserves 

 in our State. I do this after very careful consideration of all the 

 interests involved. In taking this position I differ radically with 

 my colleague. Senator Hey burn, who objects specifically to the estab- 

 lishment of each one of the proposed forest reserves in Idaho. I 

 understand from the Bonners Ferry Herald and other publications in 

 Idaho that Congressman French and Governor Gooding indorse the 

 position taken b}^ Senator Heyburn. Assuming this to be true, I 

 differ radically with Congressman French and Governor Gooding 

 also. 



AAlien forest reserves were first created and that policy first entered 

 upon, and especially during the administration of President Cleve- 

 land, the Avestern Representatives in Congress bitterly assailed the 

 creation of these reserves. I joined with my colleagues from the 

 Rocky Mountain region in this opposition, and we continued the 

 fight almost unitedly and with great earnestness for a number of 

 years. AVe disclaimed always any objection to the policy, but con- 

 tended against the methods which were used in creating, maintaining, 

 and controlling these reserves. During those years reserves were 

 created without sufficient investigation, and there were not sufficient 

 safeguards to protect stock raisers, miners, lumbermen, agriculturists, 

 and "people of our section generally. The fight of the western men 

 was constant and united. Our demands were set forth in numerous 

 speeches and finally were acceded to. The policy Avhich controls the 

 creation of forest reserves to-day and their administration is sub- 

 stantially the policy which the Representatives of the AVestern States 

 in Congress have contended for, and is substantially what the -West, 

 through its Representatives, demanded. 



The passage of the national irrigation act and the construction of 

 large irrigation works by the Government all over our western coun- 

 try, which will reclaim millions of acres of desert land, has made the 

 further extension of forest reserves already existing and the creation 



