Show SAVING TIMBER IN mississippi state la laws wr for the rite of forest front from timber depredations depredation according accordia to shenew the new york evening post have been stopped practically in mississippi by a I 1 law winch 11 e punishes u 11 i ties offenders severely there itile w are i ilig large areas of fore forest st la land nd there t r b ix 1 longing i n either to the united nitch states government or to tile the state and the temptation to settlers in remote regions to enter upon them and help therall the rael es to wood was often too strong to be when driver drivell from federal land by deputy united states state S s marshals the timber thieves thieve found refuge in the state forests which were dotso not so well policed d and by moving from the one territory to the other they contrived to escape arrest 1 I he federal officers finally became so 0 o vi vigilant that timber stealing proved a dangerous business and the thieves transferred all their operations to th the c state lands the phe legi legislature lature ther thereupon curon pas passed ed the law referred to tn and it has improved the morals moral of the people so MI much that some districts which formerly were the seene scene of wholesale depredations a aio 0 now almost free from the raids raid of poaching goodmen woodmen the statute imposes a I sue fine of two tw dollars per acre for each cacci acre in every forty avre acre sub subdivision division of land upon which bleb tiny any trespass is committed por for the protection of private owners it also at provides that for every tree cut down without their consent a line aoe of five fire dollars lar shall hhall be paid |