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Show methods, the conservation commission, commis-sion, the committee on country life, which were related only incidentally to forestry. Sherlock Holmes, the fiction fic-tion of Doctor Doyle, could not havo solved enigmas with keener relibh than that of Mr. Plnchot in taklDg up the very real problems of Undo Sain asithey are dally presented to him. "Yet, even Pinchot grows thin after months. In Washington, and' Is ever glad to hie himself away to the west. Here he studies the questions of public pub-lic lands policy on the ground, and ho will always go twice aa far to meet and discuss matters with one who entertains different views as one whose ideas coincide with his. "The people of the interior mountain moun-tain region look to the future. fcivor since the earliest settlement of the uninviting sagebrush plain they have been looking to an ever brightening future. Great problems of public improvement im-provement are not solved In a day or a year. What improvement twenty-live or fifty years' rational management of the public forests will bring about can be Judged by the remarkable progress In the five years Jnst passed. It is the business of Mr. Plnchot In Ogdeu to talk these matters over." GIFFORD PINCHOT. Gifford Plnchot, who arrives at mil-right mil-right tonight, will find himseir in the l.omo of his friends when he awakens in the morning, for Ogden is a city in jj sympathy wUh the labors of the chlet j; iorcslcr of the United States and it has for him an admiration sincere and ij enduring. Mr. Plnchot is one of the great men of tho United States, although he Is ' cue of the least pretentious In demeanor demean-or and one of the most approachable. ! He is a man of means, still he labors 1 with the energy of one whose very existence might depend on his everyday every-day exertions. Last summer ho was In Ogden fnnd ho had no more man entered tho door of the office or Mr. Leavltt when he discarded his coat and, in shirt sleeves, set himself at the task of going through the details of affairs pertaining to the local or-fice. or-fice. He 16 a man of unlimited vitality ana wondcnui mental grasp. Ono intimately acquainted with his life's work speaks of him as follows: "Soon after completing his course at Vale; Mr. Plnchot studied forestry at ! Nancy, France, and then reported to Sir Dietrich Brandls, founder ot the forest system of British India, thon retired, for a tour of tho state forests of Europe. It was the practice ot Sir Dietrich to tramp all day tor 2'J or. 30 miles through the woods and then write letters and reports until lar Into the night. Whether It wos from association with this vigorous-nnd vigorous-nnd enduring e.v mplar or sound prae-1 Ileal forestry that Gilford Plnchot got , the habit Is not known, but Brandts' ! 'vorklng day has been hii ever since. With a faculty for concealing every , evidence of fatigue, an Inborn chceri- ress that is positively contagious, aa l ! the good Judgment to banish alPcaics , In a fplrited game of tennis at the ' ' White House or in other athletics eoually vigorous, tho head forester is J nvor knossn to be under the weather. Those who kuow the meaning of t!u ' single light which almost every ulglit gleams forth from the fourth story oi the Piachot home on Scott Circle loni; alter It has lost the companionship ot ruy but the lamps on tho street, are rot surprised at his intimate knowledge knowl-edge of the workings or the affairs ot tliH nation. It Is tor this reason that he is eagerly sought for so many in-veetlgatlons, in-veetlgatlons, tho committee on public j lands, the committee on department |