| Show IN I FOREST POKES RANGES RAGES II nit flInt Sections Of or SIn to Ho lIe Io Included Local forest officials say Imy applications are aro 1 being received continually from froni farmers about the tho state asking that this that or the other tract of land 1111 bo be 1 Included In hI ii tho the forest ranges and amid thus from Cram rums tile the timber cutter and from ravage by sheep There lher are uro six states wherein n the president cannot sot ft 1 any ausy moro more forest reservations except Ihy Iby act of ot Congress viz Iz lz Montana Washington Oregon Idaho Wyoming and Colorado Hut But no 10 such restriction obtains In Ill any other state an anI 1 tho the ex culls can In accordance with wih proper petition polton declare re any Iny tract withdrawn from frema of ot any nn kind and Ind assign tho the same to enclosure In tho the forest range In Imi the tide Salt Lake offices II mire ara Iro smiling yet over tile tho way tho the president availed cyClIc up with timber trust a IL year ago ugo Tho ClIe he trust tnt through the tile sen Jen atom and ld congressmen In the tho six states stales mentioned said ald one of ot them theiu had I limo ld worked through Congress Con cs a n bill bi prohibiting withdrawal from entry of or any moro bore Inor lands In U so states fur Cor forest purposes unless through congressional action Hut But Jut with wih tile the unsigned hill bill tying lying on 01 his hil desk President Roosevelt by a I sweep of ot his hise pen sinned signed a ii n procla proclamation mation maton withdrawing from entry 17 00 acres lereS of ot lino timber lands in inthe Into intha the tha to six states slates 8 mentioned Then ho lie sign signed sig ed cd eltho tho tue bill bi taking away tho tue power from himself within those these thoe limits Ot Of course his hiI action acton raised a co howl htmL but It did dl no good and but for tor tile the the timely action or Of ortho orthe go the tho th government In setting apart so 80 much luch land In Idaho for tor forest ration tho tiso timber Sharks would no doubt era er this havo have cleaned oft of every oer foot of at good god timber at ut the tue sources of ot tho the streams that havo their headwaters In central Idaho laho |
