Show f LAfORS REAP BENEFIT BENEFITo o lid L d Commissioner Favors avots F Re Repeal Rep peal p al of Timber and Stone Act t HEAVY INCREASE IN ENTRIES UPON WHICH IS L BASED i t Special tt to The TIlle Herald H Washington Oct UIn 12 In tois IQ forth fen forthcoming coming annual report Land Commis Commissioner Richards will present pre ent forceful arguments in to favor of the radical modification of the u timber and ad stone atone act lie He builds his bis arguments upon the showing of rapidly increasing Ine tim Um timber Umber ber her entries in late Inte years Out of ot acres o of public Dc lands tanas III entered during durbas the past put fiscal year 1 were covered by timber entries or more than three times time the t area of or timber Umber entries in the th preceding p year Yea This growth is I better appreciated when it is known that in the years the timber Umber and stone tono act has bu been operative opera ve less leas l s than 7 acres all told have been entered entend under its ita provisions provi Iona Commissioner J Richards RIchardt objects b f to the timber limber and stone act because It allows largely speculator IQ o ac acquire acquire quire for an acre lands land that are aN easily worth eo There is no doubt that the tM e law Jaw kt is Mine being taken advantage of by y speculators laton who are jetting getting tU rich at t the ex expense exp pense p tuIe of the government and of mew met for whose benefit toe the law was primarily I paused says lIy he It Is I tight right that this I Umber timber should be cut eat and aad used coat com commercially 1 menially but bat the government should slid get an adequate return for parting with Ith property Matured Umber timber should be bP cut when ripe J Therefore I would not favor a law that proposed ed to tp cut curt cutoff eu off olf 0 all aU sales but I believe that the he pr PI present law to Is defective and should be he here repelled repealed re The government has bu more timber land Jaad than all the lumber com can companies own together and it wo not be just Jt to put a fence tenee about the Ute forest t and vi t forbid cutting Commissioner Richards also recommends mends mend the repeal re 1 of the commutation clause af of 8 the homestead act |