Show LAKES ANITRtVEnS DRYING UP The people of southern California have become aroused to 1 realizing sense of the disastrous effects of denuding the Sierras of timber The leading ranchmen farmers and fruit growers are preparing an immense mense memorial or petition to Congress asking that the timber claim system be abolished Kings river ten years ago was a very important river and Tularc lake wes a very extensive body of water Today the river is perfect dry just below the mouth of the Fresno irrigation system away up in the mountains and Tulare lake has receded at least ten miles since 1879 There Is less than three feet of water in the deepest part of the lake today Lake Elsi nore in San Diego county was formerly I the outlet and terminus of the San Jacinto river but since the timber has been nearly all taken from that grand old San Jacinto mountain thestream has become 1 thing of the past There is no greater mistake in the world than allowing the timber to be ent from the mountins Orchardistsliving in the region west of Tnlare say that after July of each year there is no water whatever what-ever for irrigating purposes Tho people of the Yale say It is absurd talk about irrigation schemes and big reservoirs when the government will not observe the laws of nature The sale of timber land in California is a matter that means simply the satisfying of the rapacious craws of the government land fiends There is no necessity ne-cessity for tho cutting of timber from our mountains There Is plenty of lumber in Alaska and the Pusjet Sound reion < Virginia Vir-ginia Nev JUntsrprtie August 2 |