Show PLEASED WITH FOREST SERVICE Secretary Houston Says Results Re Re- suits of Recent Extensive Trip Are Invaluable Washington ton June 26 lor G.- G. For ot the first time In his official careerS career Secretary i Houston has lias hall hail an opportunity to I investigate atc on the thc groll ground lt the work i of ot the forest ore service and In his Judg- Judg judgment j I ment It Is good During the month of or May Ia he visited all nIl six of oC the na national national na- na na-I na lIonal forest districts In tho the west western rn states and examined per personally the operations upon a number of or typical national forests Ills lIs trip was not I limited to the most accessible portions of or the forests ests but to tho the contrary he le penetrated Into the wildest an and most unsettled unsettle parts traveling tra on onlo lo logging locomotives loc automobiles horseback and ut at times timet on foot Coot Al- Al I AI-I I though had bad weather wea prevailed pre through through- throughout out almost all of or the trip th the see sec sec sec-I persisted In his efforts to get et etIn I In personal onal touch not only w w h the ringers ers and guards but with home home- cattlemen lumberJacks lumberjacks lumberjacks lumber- lumber Jacks anti and mI others with whom the forest officers do their work and was successful suc sue cf srul in securing opinions from a aI large laige e number of local people who have ha havea I II I I a disinterested 1 knowledge o of or the wa way I In which tho the national forests are ad administered ad- ad ministered H. H I Since returning to Washington the secretary ha has summarized his findings ln 8 In a letter to the chief forester Henry S. S Graves Gra lIe He said In part parL I 1 re regret regret ro- ro gret ret that It was WA-S physically all impossible for me to vi visit it more of or the forests In ach each district I feel Ceel however that I accomplished b by hr main purposes and that the results result of oC m my trip are arc In Invaluable In- In valuable I was exceedingly gratified with the evidences c of enthusiasm loyalty and devotion de to duty luty on the part palt of oC all representatives of oC the tue department department de do- with whom I J came In contact contact con con- tact T I wa was esp especially Impressed with the Intelligent an and sympathetic attitude attitude atti atti- tude tilde between the forest foret service lc and the users of the forests and of oC all communities dependent upon them It was pleasing to observe that In the forests foiest themselves the resl residents and other users look to the thc forest or st officers not nol only for fOI information bearing on forestry problems In which thc they are interested but also for a assistance In Inman Inmany inmany man many other matters The efficient and sympathetic handling handlin of forestry problem loins lcm on the part of the service ser Inthe Inthe in inthe the interest not only of or th the nation but particularly IH of the sections Jn n n I th st nr In l. l Drives p promise 1 of C the S successful c s Cu solution 1 of r I an any problems that ma may confront us liS cr er Men Len I In view of the he close study which the secretary gave ga to the tile administrative o machinery and business methods of the thc service to the use of the forests for I grazing purposes purpose the development of their water power lower possibilities tho the timber cutting operations the road road and trail and other Improvement ement work the recreational use of oC the Co forests rests the of land under the act of or June 11 and the relation of or the forests to agriculture his strong approval Isa Isa is isa a source of extreme gratification to the members of the forest service who believe belle that it will set at rest a great reat I many of oC the erroneous ideas regarding I Ithe the tho manner manner In which tho the national forests of or the we west t are being handled I |