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project, was met with frequent applause. It was easily 
apparent that the forest reserve proposal awakens en- 
thusiasm and approval wherever it is presented. 
Mr. Cristadoro called attention to the fine collection of 
photographs displayed about the room, all views taken in 
the region i:nder consideration of the forest reserve. 
These pictures showed the wild nature of that country 
very fully, and were artistic of themselves. He thought 
but very few white men had ever been so close to that 
region as they might now be by looking at these pictures. 
Mr. F. S. Baird moved the amendment of the resolu- 
tion on organization so that five more names might be 
added to the committee to be selected by this meeting. He 
suggested that the names of Geo. O. Shields, M. R. Bor- 
tree and Geo. W. Strel! should be added. These were 
added, with the names of Mr. John E. Williams and Geo. 
E. Adams. Adjournment was had till Aug. 11. Col. 
Cooper .said that at that meeting he hoped to have many 
distinguished guests, possibly the Secretary of the In- 
terior, among others. Mr. Cristadoro, of St. Paul, said 
he thought his State would perhaps send down a special 
car party. The best of feeling seems to prevail in the 
State of Minnesota in regard to this movement, and it is 
already clear, what all the Chicago men have anxiously 
hoped would be clear, that this is not to be considered a 
Chicago movement in any sense of the word. 
The following are names of Minnesota gentlemen who 
are naturallj' expected to feel a keen interest in this 
matter: Of St. Paul, Governor John Lind, Jas. J. Hill, 
President Great Northern Railroad; D. R. Noyes, Bishop 
M. N. Gilbert, Gen. C. C. Andrews, State Fire Warden; 
Geo. R. Finch, Conde Hamlin, Geo. Thompson, G. S. Gif- 
ford, A. S. Talmage, R. C. Jefferson, Moses E. Clapp, 
Milton Griggs, Thos. Lowry, C. A. Pillsbury, Dr. Parks 
A. few arrests have already been made. One man had 
killed an old hen and five chicks; the old hen did not 
have a feather on her breast — chicks the size of quail. 
While in Springfield yesterday I was informed in the 
Secretary of State's office that fifty applications for 
licenses had come in from a single club in St. Louis. The 
i-eal sportsmen of that city are perfectly satisfied with the 
new law; the only kick is that one license for the State 
would have been the proper thing, instead of each and 
every county. I agree with them; had it been so we 
would have more money and more protection. It might be 
well for you to inform the non-resident shooters in our 
State to send to State Secretary Rose for blank applica- 
tion to avoid delay at the time they want to go shooting 
in Illinois." 
Gov. Tanner's Deer. 
In regard to the killing of the deer in Colorado by 
Governor John R. Tanner, of Illinois, there is no doubt 
at all, and the matter is not a mere newspaper rumor. 
The act was done deliberately, and it was done by a man 
who knew the law, or who ought to know the law. In- 
terviewed at San Francisco on this matter this week, 
Governor Tanner made the very lame explanation that he 
killed the deer on club grounds, and that the law did 
not apply on such club grounds. I do not know what 
club there is owning a game preserve near Debeque, Colo., 
and I do not know what Glen Beulah Park is, this being 
the place where he is stated to have killed the deer. If 
Glen Beulah Park is really a private preserve, with 
domestic deer, it is- difficult to attribute any sportsman- 
ship to the act of killing a deer under such circumstancs. 
Of course Governor Tanner must know that the owning 
of a piece of land does not give any one the privelege of 
breaking the laws of the State upon that land. It used to 
be said that a farmer might kill game on his own land at 
any time, but a great many farmers have learned to their 
cost that it is a.s illegal to break State game laws on 
their own land as it would be to commit murder or larceny 
there. A warranty deed to a piece of real estate does not 
warrant that such real estate is a place of refuge or ex- 
emption from the laws. The State Game Warden of 
Colorado at once started out after Governor Tanner's 
party on hearing of the offense, but the latter had left the 
State and gone to California. I fear it will be difficult 
for Governor Tanner to set himself in a sportsmanlike 
light before the public in this matter. E. Hough, 
4S0 Caxton Building, Chicago, 111. 
MAP OF THE PROPOSED RESERVE. 
This map gives tlie area of the proposed forest reserve in northern Minnesota which the Government is to be asked to set 
aside for the preservation of the historic headwaters of the Mississippi. It is probable that the tract when eventually re- 
served by the Government will be much larger than the district shown here, but this is to be determined in the future. The area 
shown contains the gem lakes of the northern region, is traversed by the lines of the Great Northern system, is replete with all 
kinds of game, and easily accessible. Geographically it is located northwest of Duluth and northeast of Fargo. A considerable 
p.ortion of it is in the famous Itasca county. The distance from Chicago is about 500 miles via Duluth, or 600 via St. Paul. It is 
the most extensive hunting and fishing region in the middle West, 
:ect the headwaters of our greatest river, to save that 
•egion from the devastating axe of the lumberman. Wis- 
:onsin and Michigan were devastated now, and part of 
\linnesota. All that was left of the great virgin pine 
'orest was this little region in Minnesota, a speck upon 
:he map. To cut it would leave no timber like u in the 
;ntire West. It would mean that there would be here, as 
n Wisconsin and Michigan, a series of decayed and deso- 
ated towns, the wreckage of the lumber regions, with no 
lope and no future. To save this region meant to give it 
I. future, and a great one. 
Col. Cooper now offered the following well-considered 
■esolution, which was really the main business of the 
ivening : 
"Whereas, This meeting has been called solely for the 
mrpose of counseling togethering over otir common pur- 
>OSe of saving to the present and future generations the 
lative forests at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the 
state of Minnesota; 
'And, whereas, We desire to make the proposed organi- 
.ation national rather than local in its constituen:; mem- 
lership, and especially to act in harmony and co-operation 
vith the friends of this movement in Minnesota : 
"Therefore be it resolved, Tliat the action of this meeting 
hall be confined to the appointment of a committee on 
»rganization as follows: 
"The committee shall cor^sist of fifty gentlemen, of 
vhom thirty shall be from Minnesota and shall be elected 
•y the joint action of the Commercial Club of St. Paul 
nd the Commercial Club of Minneapolis; and the other 
wenty members of said committee shall be from gentlc- 
nen present, or who have indorsed this movement; and 
ueh committee shall report a plan of permanent organi- 
ation at the next meeing, to be held on Friday, Aug. ii, 
899, in the Chicago Athletic Association, at 8 o'clock 
\- M. They shall also have full power by correspondence 
nd otherwise to enlist other gentlemen from Minnesota 
ad elsewhere, in this movement, and add their names to 
he membership of the organization ;'^and they shall also 
eport to such meeting the different offices of the organi- 
ation, together with the names of the respective gentle- 
nen whom they shall recommend for election thereto. 
?hey shall also recommend the name for the pennanent 
•rganization. Said committee shall appoint an executive 
oramittee of a smaller number, who shall have full power 
o act for the whole committee," 
The foregoing was carried unanimously. On motion 
\i Mr. Fitch a sub-committee on membership was ap- 
ointed by the chair, consisting of Col. J. S. Cooper, H. S. 
•"itch and Jas. B. Clow. These retired and later reported 
he following list of names : Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of 
^ew York; Dr. O. W. Nixon, Dr. Frank Billings, Hon. 
C. Kohlsaat, Gen. John McNulta, Hon. H. S. Fitch, 
:;apt. J. B. Clow, Col. J. S. Cooper, Messrs. E. Hough, 
)tis R. Glover, Arthur Orr, C. D. Peacock, H. G. Mc- 
'artney, J. H. Whitbeck, Joseph Leiter, Joseph Winter- 
lotham, L. W- Pitcher, E. W. Blatchford, J. A. Kelsey 
nd E. F. Daniels, of Chicago. 
The list was adopted without dissent. 
Meantime general discussion went on. Mr. Bortree rose 
0 ask what would be the eft'ect upon the game of that 
ountry if this reservation were established. The chair- 
nan explained to him that it had been the history of the 
ountry that when game was protected it Avas not ex- 
erminated, no matter how old the region. This reserva- 
ion Avould be under the absolute protection of the United 
states Government and United States troops. Meantime 
etters of regret for obligatory absence were read from 
iiany gentlemen to whom invitations had been sent, and 
vithout exception these were of most cordial indorse- 
nent of the enterprise. Such communications were from 
iUdge C. C. Kohlsaat, Dr. Frank BilHngs, 
/[arshall Field. E. W. Blatchford, Arthur Orr, F. T. Bent- 
ey, Edwin F. Daniels, W. P. Mussey, J. B. Knight, J. B. 
sanborn, Joseph Winterbotham, Dr. O. W. Nixon, Jas. 
Beeks, J. M. Oliver, Gen. J. M. McNulta, Sidney 
1 Eastman, J. A. Kelsey, W. P. Tuttle, Wm. Annan 
Taylor, all of Chicago, who pleaded absence from city of 
ither pressing reasons for not being on hand. Among 
imilar letters from gentlemen outside of Chicago were 
hose from Messrs. W. E. Moses, of Denver; Leo. M. 
"rafts, of Minneapolis; Burdett Loomis, of Hartford, 
3onn., and letters of great interest were also read from 
jovernor Theodore Roosevelt, of New York; officials of 
mportance in railway circles of the West, from W. B. 
Chamberlain, editor of the Minneapolis Journal, etc. The 
■eading of these communications, from men who were- 
!ither well acquainted with the country in question or who 
!Xpressed the warmest and most intelligent interest in the 
Ritchie, Dr. Henry Hutchinson, Burnside Foster, A. Mc- 
Laren, C. L. Greene, E. J. Abbott, Dr. H. M. Bracken, 
State Health Board ; Harris Richardson. Of Minneapolis, 
Messrs. E. J. Phelps, J. B. Gilfillan, F. H. Peavey, S. A. 
Harris, R. G. Evans, F. G. Winston, W. C. Edgar, John 
F. Calderwood, W. E. Haskell, J. B. Murphy, John S. 
McLain, Dr. J. W. Bell, W. A. Jones, R. O. Beard, F. F. 
Westbrook, A. P. Williamson, W. E. Leonard, F. B. 
Walker. Of Duluth, C. A. Stewart, S. M. Stocker. Of 
St. Cloud, W. L. Beebee. 
Acreage on the Proposed Reserve. 
Of public lands in the region concerned in the Minne- 
sota forest reserve movement the acreage is as follows : 
Total 
Coimty. Acres. Reserved. in County. 
Beltrami 1,105,000 594,000 2,710,000 
Itasca 1,528,942 618,014 3,676,000 
Cass 1,273,940 421,240 1,768,000 
Ashland , 515,680 2,520 607,000 
Total 4,723,562 1,635,774 8,758,000 
Illinois Game Commissioner's Work. 
Chicago, 111., July 29. — State Game Commissioner 
Harry W. Loveday, writes me to-day regarditig the work- 
ings of the new Illinois game law, whose somewhat radical 
features received mention at the time of the passing of the 
law. Mr. Loveday thinks that the new law will be all 
right, but naturally deplores the county license feature 
■with l*ie multiplicity of details which that means. It 
must be a little odd for the shooters of Missouri and 
Iowa to have to put up money for a license when they 
want to shoot in an Illinois county, but this lisence idea 
has obtained too strong a hold in this section of the West 
to be denied. Whether it will stand the test of years is 
something which remains to be seen, but it is certainly a 
step forward over the old loose methods under which the 
Western game was practically destroyed. The license idea 
may not be fully right, but if it teaches the doctrine of 
protection and advertises the fact that there are game 
laws, it cannot help doing good in a way. Warden Love- 
day has ahvaj's believed in this license law, and I hope 
that it will give him the machinery to still further carry 
©n the good work he has always done in protection in this 
State. He has made more arrests and seized more illegal 
game than any warden we have ever had in Illinois. Non- 
resident shooters will do well to note the last clause of his 
communication, which is as below : 
"Ninetjr-three new deputies have been carefully selected 
and appointed by me throughout the State. Over 100 
more applications are in, many of whom will be appointed 
as soon as they qualify. Hundreds of very encouraging 
letters have been received at this office, declaring that 
now that we have at last got a law for the protection of 
game, they will do everything in their power to assist me. 
The Equipment of Camps and 
Expeditions. 
BY PROF. CHARLES H. SNOW, NEW YORK UNrVERSITY, NEW 
YORK CITY. 
(A paper presented before the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers at the New York meeting in February, 1899.) 
The engineer has often to penetrate difficult or un- 
known regions. Mineral, irrigation, boundary and rail- 
way problems frequently necessitate journeys through, or 
long residence in, localities whence sustenance cannot be 
drawn. The selection and conveyance of provisions, out- 
fit and implements thus become a matter of the first im- 
portance. Scientific skill, even of the highest order, is 
powerless unless supported by the proper appliances and 
foods. The advance of civilization favors the engineer, in 
that it is constantly enlarging his facilities and thus re- 
ducing his difficulties. Notwithstanding this fact, many 
are yet brought face to face with the problems con- 
sidered in this paper. 
Distinction must be made between parties which are to 
be in constant or even occasional touch with a base of 
supplies, and those which will be for a long time dependent 
on their original outfit. Again, the requirements of a 
party on the march are different from those of a fixed 
camp. The district, season, climate, size and personnel 
of party also influence the character of the outfit. A 
party that is to be detached from its base of supplies for 
some time requires a greater variety of food than if it 
is to be gone for a short time. Much less in proportion 
need be taken where the journey is not long, so that 
privation is confined to a limited period. The ability to 
establish a fixed camp permits a larger outfit than would 
be possible if the camp were to be moved from day to 
day. Transportation, climatic and other conditions are 
thus so varied that lists prepared for one work could 
hardly be applied to any other without some modification. 
Lists that have proved successful in some instances may, 
however, serve as bases to be added to, or otherwise 
altered, for the case in hand. The mistake usually made 
is in providing too large an outfit. Every emergency 
cannot be provided for; so that it is well to take, not. 
what may be needed, but what cannot be spared. 
The present subject has been exhaustively studied by 
the military authorities of all great nations. The re- 
quirements of the civilian engineer seem to differ, how- 
ever, from those of the soldier, the sailor and others ex- 
posed to extreme privation. The soldier is disciplined to 
hardship, and forms a part of a large, well-supported na- 
tional system, with facilities differing from those con- 
trolling _ private enterprises. The sailor does not have 
to take into account the question of transportation, which 
is usually the all-important factor in the work to be 
specially considered here. Arctic exploration, on the 
other hand, subjects its srnall following to such an ab- 
normal maximum of privation that preparation for phys- 
ical requirements assumes the position of first importance. 
The engineer, who is as pronounced in his needs as the 
soldier or the sailor, may be subjected to privations so 
severe as to suggest, at least, those of the explorer, and 
is often responsible for the health of others, , Notwith- 
standing these facts, the writer has failed to find that 
any attennpt has yet been made to collate and compare 
the experiences of engineers in this important particular. 
The organization of any camp or expedition necessi- 
tates attention to one or more of the following depart- 
ments : Transportation, food, shelter, clothing, miscel- 
laneous implements, instruments, personnel and medi- 
cines. These will be considered in the order given. 
TransportatloD. 
The difficvdties of camp and field life increase in direct 
