Show GIFFORD PINCHOT To the Editor of the Your statement that Gif-ford Pinchot is working a political game may be perfectly there are some things connected with his dismissal and with that of Price and Thus far it looks as if these men were dropped from the public service primarily because of their eagerness to protect the public I notice by the public prints that the government has received an offer from a responsible business man of fifty cents a ton royalty on Alaskan It is estimated that such a royalty would net the people of the United States two million dollars on one hundred acres of coal The geological survey estimates that sixteen billion tons of coal are in sight in known coal areas of Fifty cents a ton on this amount would yield the government This is the coal land that the department of the interior has been in under the administration of Secretary to sell outright to the Guggenheim syndicate for an Attention was first called to this monumental grab and public indignation was aroused by L. R. chief of field service of the department of the Glavis efforts were powerfully supported by Gifford by Overton W. his first and by Albert C. assistant law of the forest As a results of their efforts the plunder plan was stopped and the government has received a first offer that promises to produce an enormous Truly A CONSTANT When is a bonnet not a When it becomes a pretty V. S. Salt Lake cj Dear Enclosed check for to pay which I have been ing with much I welcome your and 1 like it for its fairness and to Respectfully ISAAC i Feb 23 V. S. j Dear Find enclosed the paper which is due have enjoyed reading your pi and like the stand you taken in defending the inn The title of the paper is Yours respectfully j P. LINDSA |