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Show wtter" power and lea'drnjTt into .camp T VWe may hopelestly dull, but'what the grvat gain i to bt by oipsr out on the denert and tyiu? the et-tie et-tie r '. hand, we fail to Me. A coal mine cannot be made available for commercial ,urpoe nave through i. heavy outlay of money. No oil can be developed except by a large expenditure of money; neither can a water powei. And until this money if spent iieither proposition iit worth a penny. To make either of any vulut. either the government or-individual must put up the money. And thr. individual who would advance money for such purpose, would, in Mr. I'inchot's estimation, at once become odious monopolist. There you are. What do the advocates of conservation con-servation hope fort ' Then there is some grafting going on or in contemplation. con-templation. . , . For instance, some months ago an Indian reservation reser-vation was stretched over a large portion of San Juan county id this state. This was done in Jie face' of several facts, one of which is that there are no Indians who need a reservation. .Another, that if there were, nd were they sent thcre'and held there, if they did not die of starvation in three weeks they would commit suicide in horror of the place. The country has some marked oil indications. Some one wants to create great oil company there and got the reservation made to mature his plans.- Who is he and what is his pull! The whole business is a fraud. THAT CONSERVATION POLICY. .Nothing bss been besrd from Mr. rim-hot now for month or more. W wonder if h ha gone into retirement to prepare plans, specification and blue prints, through which to make clear how any honest man could ever make a dollar were hia pol-. pol-. . icy of cotwervation of water power, coal and oil lands carried out If the. oil lands are by and by restored to locstioa, wbst poor man could benefit ben-efit by itt Caii the poor men employ men to bore for oil anywhere T If the price of coal lands is in creased from 100 to 2000 per cent, what poor man is to locate it? Then when the government takes i' Inn'! from the streams, what poor men are .go-- .go-- t - t suddenly rich by thro wing a ope, on a |