Show PROPOSED FOREST RESERVES Not Certain Department Will Heed Protest Regarding Those in Utah TRIBUN13 SPECIAL la I certain Washington March iOIt not that the department will heed the protest pro-test ted by Senator Stnoot In the matter of the proposed forest reserves In Utah Some changes will probably be made In the original programme but It Is I likely J that large tracts will bo withdrawn nail moreover the decision Is expected In avery a-very few days all the papers having been drawn up and simply awiUtlnj Lime sl nature na-ture of tho Secretary of thc Interior Senator Smoot said he favored tho es talllshinont of the Logan and Mantl reserves re-serves and such parts of other reserves Jnt SCrCS as ale necessarY to protect the water supply sup-ply for cities and towns That was as far as he desired to go but It appears IH that the department lit Inclined to go much farther However instead of following the large temporary blanket withdrawals there will probably be created several smaller reserves thereby eliminating as far as poHilblo lands more vnhmblc for agriculture and grazing than for forestry About half the land temporarily withdrawn with-drawn will bo eventually Included In a permanent forest reserve There has been an unusual number of petitIon from all parts of Utah from Individuals In-dividuals xaaoclatlonis municipal corpo ratlono and politicians urging that these reserves bo established asi arly as poul hue Field Investigation1 have bo NI made with unusual care by men especially qual Wed for that chills of busln < H The position of Utah In urging tho malting malt-Ing of these reserves lu I unique In that sho stands along with California In time I ntrong determination to preserve her timber and water supply Other Won tern States have baum HUIPI antagonistic and le l as Interested In these matters A howl Is I alva3 raised from come Interest or other when reserves In other Slates have been created Senator Smoot foara the destruction of the sheep and cattle business It Is I Intimated In those In authority that sheep grazing will bo nllowiid but regulated so an not to interfere in-terfere with the water shod or destroy the undergrowth rgowth Many aigumcntn arc lined for r rscvcr Ing In the forest recorvo business Attention Atten-tion Is I called to the recent grant floods In ton Mississippi river valley It Is held I that the tiprlng floods arc becoming larger each year owlnjr to the destruction of the forests drained to that stream and other largo rivers are cited In tho same connec ton innivud of Jlowlnir out thus hur rjioiy and suddenly to the gulf and Iea all that watir would be held back by well preserved Toronto and made use ofand be distributed along through tho long dry sunnnura Another benefit is mentioned Time dead down and matured timber may Uc told at reasonable coat without ulti mate loss rind this timber la I moro and more In demand thniiichout the country Dejldcfl settlers living near reserves mire allowed under the law the nlowcd Indtr w free use of such timber use ns thoy may require for their own I |