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Show NO RESERVE WANTED. Citizens Express Themselves as Opposed Op-posed to Forest Reserve on Pine Valley Mountain. lDlxloAdvocate.1 At the close of afternoon services last Sunday the male portion of the congregation con-gregation was requested In remain and consider the propriety of favoring the reservation of the Pine Valley Mountain Moun-tain as a water shed. Pres. K. II. Snow I who was In communication with Sena-1 I tor Sinoot In relation to the matter, ex-I ex-I plained that he had been asked whether I I the'ptople of this county desired to have .the government make yhnt Is known - VS-nwiJfjrlo-lCu.W-oi r.tU "-"ltliaL he'ho,d at that time replied that he did not know. Thut it hud been' his purpose pur-pose to ascertain the sense of the people of the entire county on tho matter when they assembled here a short timo hence at quarterly conference, but that he was just in. receipt of another fetter from -Senator Sinoot, urging au immediate immed-iate roply, bo that an earlier consideration considera-tion of the question had become necessary. neces-sary. lip. I muic C. Maefurhine, who was for a number of years a member of tho Statu Hoard of Lund Commissioners, being present, was asked to throw what light he could on tho matter. He stated that should tho Pine Valley mountain be bet nsidens.i forest reserve, the people would bo dobarred from cutting cut-ting or removing any poles or saw timber tim-ber from tho reservation. And that there would bo other restrictions placed on them that might prove very Inconvenient wheroaslu thlscase hesaw no benefits to bo derived from tho reserving re-serving of this territory, as it had never been a range for sheep. After some little discussion Pres. 1 Cannon moved that It bo tho sense of the meeting that the people of Wash ingion comity did not caro to have tho reservation. Tho motion received half a dozen seconds aud carried unanimous, ly - - - - . |