Land Office, Frederick H. Newell, Chief
Engineer of the Re¢lamation Service
and Gilford Pinchot, Chief of the
Bureau of Foresiry, has during tne
course of two years made a study ot
the public lands’ condition and has
brought in a report which has been
forwarded to Congress by the President
with a special message recommending
the repeal of the Timber and Stone
Act and the substitution of a rational
forest policy of seiling only the stump-
age from the public timber lands, re-
taining tle lands for future timber
growth; recommending the radical
amendment of the commutation clause
of the Homestead Act and a like
amendment of the Desert Land Act in
such manner as to require actual resi-
dence and improvement under bath of
the latter named laws, amounting to
their practical repeal.
The provisions of this report are
highly satisfactory to the Forestry and
Irrigation Committee of the National
Board of Trade, which believes that
their enactment into law, strictly en-
forced, would do away with land and
timber grabbing and promote these pol-
icies on this subject for which the
Board has consistently striven,
The present indefensible land policy
of the United States is resulting in an
actual money loss to the government
of tens of millions of dollars annually,
in the denuding of our watersheds and
the destruction of all chances for a
future timber supply, in the building
up of lordly landed estates in the West
of tens and hundreds of thousands of
acres in single ownerships, instead of
providing for the creating of thousands
of small rural homes—in short in the
mismanagement and waste of the
greatest resource ever possessed by any
nation on earth.
The attention of our lawmakers in
Congress should be urgently called to
the fact that while they are attempting
economy in the expenditure of money,
they are allowing laws to remain in
force under which by far the most
valuable asset of the nation is being
recklessly wasted.
Under the Timber and Stone Act,
the sales of public timber lands dur-
ing the last five years have been as
follows:
Year,
Acres.
396,445.61
545,253.98
. 1,765,2
1,306,261.3
696,677.06
4,709,860.38
A large _ oportion of these lands have
heen in the heavily timbered belt of the
far Northwest and is of the class of
timber deseribed by the Secretary of
the Interior in his report for the fiscal
vear ended, June 30, 1903, in which he
says:
“The Timber and Stone Act will, if
not repealed or radically amended, re-
sult ultimately in the complete destrue-
tion of the timber on the unappropriat-
ed and unreserved public lands, The ra-
pidity with which the public timbered
lands are being denuded of their timber
—and the opportunity offered under the
Timber and Stone Act for the fraudu-
lent acauisition of title to public tim-
bered lands at the uniform price of
2.50 per acre when they are in many
instances worth forty times that ($100)
has been heretofore set forth in the
pages of my annual reports and those
of my predecessors.”
Hundred Million Dol'ar Waste.
But estimating the values only of the
4,700,860 acres of timber land disposed
of in the last five years, and at only
$26 per acre, the government has, in
that time, parted with the title of iand
worth §117,746,500. The price received
for this land has been at the uniform
rate of $2.50 per acre, or $11,774,650,
a loss to the government of over $100,
000,000. Your committee endorses the
recommendation af the President and
his Public Lands Commission for the re-
peal of this Timber and Stone Act and
the substitution ef a rational forest
poliey, by which the title to the public
timber lands shall remain forever in
the government, the stumpage only to
he disposed ef, at its market value,
Under such a plan as this, and under
an agreement whereby one half the
proceeds could be devoted to the For-
estry Service and the other half to
the Irrigation Fund, twe policies of
great internal improvement and im-
portance could he generously main-
tained, while at the same time the
forestry question would be to a great
extent solved, public forest lands being
lumbered in such a manner as to pre-
serve the young growth and leave the
ply from forest destruction is equally |
as great. Large areas in the Southern |
Appalachian and White Mountain |
itanges should be created into ferest
reserves,
For Eastern Forest Reserves.
In a speecn ai Raleigh, N. C., en
October 20th, last, F resident Roosevelt,
said: “It is the upper altitudes of the
.orested mountains chat aie most valu-
able to the nation as a whole, especially
because of their effects upon the water
supply. Neither state or nation ean af-
ford to turn these mountains over to
the unrestrained greed of those who
woudd exploit them at the expense of
the future. We cannot aiford to wait
longer before assuiuing eontrol in tae
interests of the public, of these forests;
for if we do wait, the vested interests
of private parties in them may be-
come so strongly inwrenched that it
may be @ most expensive task to oust
hem. If the eastern states are wise,
then from the Bay of Fundy to the
wf we will see, within the next few
years a policy set on foot similar te
that so fortunately car: ¢d out in the
igh Sierras of the west by the Na-
onal government. 4)! the higher Ap-
palachiang should be reserved. Such
reserves would be a paying investment,
not only in protection to many inter-
ests, but in dollars and cents to the
government, The importance to the
southern people of protecting the south-
ern mountain forests is obvious. These |
forests are the best defense against the
floods which, in the recent past, have,
during a single twelve months, destroy-
ed property officially valued at nearly
twice that it would cost to buy the
lage him in writing, and advised him
NICK LONGWORTH'S FATHER.| PIGMY ICELAND PONIES.
i Pets in Parlors of London Society
Ohig- Twenty-Light Inches High, -
London society has a bad case of the
President's son-in-law, is a millonaire zo0logicals. = Tiger ari gentle Je
of Cinginnati. His family is one of lemurs; Ze s
i i the Vv yes; fretful porcupines and
the oldest and most aristocratic of that | brown eyes; fre
city, His father, Judge Longworth, was | anteaters have in turn been made
as able a man as ever sal on the su-|pets, but they have all been dethroned
preme bench of the State, and withal, | as rulers of petdom by the parlor ponies
one of the youngest. He resigned this of Iceland.
position as he did not care to take life These tiny creatures are the fun-
.00 seriously after passing fifty. W hen| . t little things imaginable. They are
he died he was a colonel on Gov. MeKin- no larger than a Newfoundland dog
iey’s stalf, death resuiung from ex- their height is twenty-eight inches,
posure on an inauguration day. slightly less than that of the ordinary
Judge Longworth was a man not only : ;
beloved, but brilliant. His courtship
»f his wife, mother of the present Con-
gressman, began when both were but
six years old. She was then littie Sue
Walker. Some years before the judge
lied, he built a small steamboat for
leaure trips on the Ohio river. He
sadled it the “C—O”. It was an odd
name, and people wondered what it
meant. Some said it stood for Cincin-
1ati, Ohio, others said ® meant “Come
>,” but the judge would not make pub-
Was One of the First Men of
Interesting Inciaents oi Lite.
Congressman Nick Longworth, the
lie the origin of such an odd christen-
ing. Years later, ne told this gtory:
As a boy, he had fallen in love with
Sue Walker, and confided his affection
to his mother, who wished %o encour-
to express his love in a letter. He
did so but did not know how to spell
Sue. He pondered a while, then rea-
soned that if d-o—spelled “do,” c-0
ought to spell Sue. That was the way
he addressed his first love letter, and |
Southern Appalachian Reserve.”
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IN THE SOU
The importance of the Appalachian
forest cover to the cotton milling in-
dustry alone, in the Piedmont regions
of North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia is shown by the statistics of
the mills operated by the water power
derived from the streams having their
sources in these mountains. In these
three states there are 163 mills so
operated, with a combined capital stock
of $33,000,000, with 2,770,000 spindles
and 50,926 looms and giving work to
over 45,000 employees. The total an-
nual preduction of these mills is ap-
proximately $64,000,000,
Virginia has intevests also, which
are not included in the above figures,
2s have also Tennesee and Kentucky,
on the western side of the mountains.
A National forest reserve in the
White Mountains of New Hampshire is
also a matter of general concern and
vital to the well being of the industries
of all New England, We are upon the
threshold of great industrial competi-
tion with the producing powers of the
world; to maintain our supremacy we
must retain our hold upon our cheap
forest as a perpetual source of income
to the nation and at the same time
conserve the water supply.
If the $100,000,000 which have heen
lost to the government under the above
showing, were at hand, a seore or more
of enermous irrigation projects could
be immediately eonstructed, reclaiming
from 2000,000 to 8,000,000 acres of
desert land, and enormous areas of
Eastern forest reserves created through
the purchage of meuntain timber lands
east of the Mississippi,
In this eonnection, y-ur committee
is much impressed with the importance
of the creation of federal forest re-
serves to preserve the water supply
of eastern steams, upon the continued
flow of which depends much of our
manufacturing agtivity, Ths western
half of the United States has ever 100,-
000,000 acres set aside in national forest
reserves, as a source of future timber
supply and for the preservation of the
flow of streams .for irrigation; but
the east has no such an advantage,
water power, which, through electrical
invention is being utilized as never be-
fore and greatly aiding to our national
prosperity,
The creation of the Appalachian and
White Mountain Forest Reserves can-
not be left to the states; the question
is an inter-state and therefore a na-
tional one. Nearly all the rivers of
New Fngland head in the White Moun-
tains of New Hampshire and it is of
supreme imnortance to the industries
of all the New England States, repre-
senting tens of millions of dollars, that
the forest cover at the river sources
shall be preserved and improved,
National delay in the acquisition of
these “reserves” would be dangerous
and wasteful. Timber land which a
few years aro could have been pur-
chaged at $1.50 to $3 an acre has now
trebled and quadrupled in value, Ad-
ditional delay will mean a further in-
crease In cost. Congress should act
at once and preserve from destruction
one of the greatest resources of the
whereas, the menace to her water sup-
nation.
TH CAROLINA APPALACHIANS,
when he was a man grown, “dear C. O. LOOKS LIKE A BIG TOY.
table, are as woolly as sheep and quiet
as lambs.
Seven of these little fellows were
imported by Mr, Jamrach, the natural-
ist, and he insists that they are quite
at home and well mannered in the
house and that a baby might safely
play with them. Two of the herd are
chestnuts, two mouse, one bay, one
black, but the “pick of the bunch,” the
smallest of all, has a long cream-
colored coat and a tail that sweeps the
floor.
All seven were bought at $75 each
on the first day of their exhibition.
One of the customers is an intimate
friend of the Queen, so that it is quite
probable that a pigmy pony will find
a royal mistress.
——
Stoker in First Locomolive,
Letchworth Cox, who was a stoker
on the first locomotive that ever got
up steam in America, celebrated his
ninety-first birthday at his home in
Jamesburg, N. J, on Christmas Day
Mr, Cox was the son of Joseph and
Hannah Cox and was born in Chester
county, Pa., in 1814. He is still in
possession of all his faculties.
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They Must Gnaw.
Rats, mice and squirrels unceasing
ly gnaw at something, not out of pure
mischief, as people generally imagine,
but because they are forced to,
Animals of this class, especially
rats, have teeth which continue to
grow as long as the owner lives, This
being the case, the rodent is obliged
to continue his gnawing so as to keep
his teeth ground off to a proper length,
The OId Folks Were Absent.
tel in Kansas City, saying with enthu-
siasm: “Well, sir, I enjoyed your lecture
very much last night” “I didn’t see you
there,” remarked the lecturer. “Oh, I
wasn’t there.” “Well, what do you mean
by telling me you enjoyed my lecture, and
you were not present?’ “Oh, I bought
Judge Longworth was once travel- tickets for my girl's father and mother,
ing in Italy. He was in a forward car and they both went!”
with a friend; and when his wife sent
became his wife and the mother of his
son, the present congressman. The
mother still keeps and prizes her first
declaration of love.
A man came up to a lecturer in a ho-{
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word for him te come back to her, the
judge remarked, “We had best take all !
our things as the dago marquis here |
might swipe them.” This remark was
made concerning a swarthy looking
man in the opposite seat. The judge
was only joking, thinking too, that the
stranger did not understand English.
When the train stopped, the Marquis
handed the judge a card. He was
a sure enough marquis and he knew
English, The card meant a duel, but
Longworth was equal to the occasion,
for he responded, “Why hello Marquis,
glad to meet you,” The offended noble.
man had to laugh and the two be.
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the bandits in Thessaly. With sever-
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famous robber chief and told him they
wanted to have a social visit with him
and his men. A bag of gold was giv-
en the outlaws and for two weeks
Longworth and his party ‘saw much
of a section and people which had
been a sealed book to even the near-
est inhabitants. They hunted and
played games, but the robbers com-
mitted no crimes during the visit.
When the stay was over the chief
escorted them to the frontier and saw
them in safe hands. There was a
price on his head and beyond a cer-
tain line he dared not go. The judge
often remarked that he never enjoyed
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