Show APPOINTMENT FAVORED District Foresters Cheer When News I of Successor Comes Special to The Tho Ogden Jan cheering and applause followed the announcement be before before fore the convention of distrIct foresters President Taft had appointed Henry S Graves head of the Yale school of forestry to succeed Gifford Pinchot tOday Many ot of the super supervIsors supervisors vIsors In attendance at the convention are graduates ot of the Yale school and former pupils of Graves whom they say is the man In America on matters pertaIning to the forest service It Is expected that before the conven convention convention tion closes resolutions In favor of the appoIntment of Graves will willbe willbe be drafted Settlement and mineral claims on the national forests were the topics of die dis discussIon before the convention today The chief speaker on the subjects in hand was C B Morse technical forester of the reserve ith tars tors at St Anthony Anthohy Ida He dealt chiefly with land values alues showing that where the actual profit of land under forest reserve exceeded Its value for agriculture or grazing purposes the pol polley icy ley of the department should be strictly maintained But where land Included in the reserves could be put to better account in other ways ment was justified Mr Moro also justified the policy of listing lands even though heavily covered with timber when It Itan itcan can an be shown that It Is suitable for tor ag agriculture agriculture However Mr Morse pointed out that future or prospective values alueS of land from an agrIculture standpoint cannot be taken Into consideration and tracts of reserve which In years to come may turn out to be m most st valuable as farm farming farming ing land must be kept within the juris jurisdiction jurisdiction diction of the forest reserve policy while the value of the timber now on It justifies In dealing with the subject of mineral claims Supervisor Hurst of Fillmore FUlmore emphasized the need of great accuracy and diplomacy on the part of the forest officials to see th that t the miners and prospectors were done no Injustice |