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Show PINCHOT SPENDSJUSHAy IN OGDEN Important Matters Are Quickly and Summarily Disposed of by the Chief of the Forest Service. Property Owners Receive Grazing Allotments in Preference o Transient Herders "Little Man" Shall Be ProtectedStrenuous Day Ends in Banquet Followed by Address at TabernacIe'Many Distinguished Guests Present in Honor of United States' Chief Forester. 1 work that has been accomplished by my good friend F. H. Newell of the reclamation service. This was done without reference to forestry, but two years ago, President Roosevelt brought the two policies together under one name conservation. In June, 1907, he made an address In which for the first time in public, conservation was t-tated as a single problem In all this work for conservation, the western people have assisted nobly. The people of Utah have done their share and none more so than your own Senator Smoot. Of all tho m?n who have stood beside us in the work of forestry, there is none to whom we owe a larger debt of gratl tude than to Senator Smoot The service stands for the settler and the man who is trying to get a home for himself. I have said many times, and I will say again, that the forest service would rather assist a man to make a home than a rich man io make a profit. The criticisms which are made upon the service from time to time act more to its credit usually than otherwise. When a thing Is fundamentally right you can not rob it of its worth. You may possibly injure it temporarily in the thought of eome people, but as has been said, you cannot fool all the people all tho time. Our first object Is to protect the j sources of water supply, municipal as well as for Irrigation purposes. When the coal and the oil and the iron and the gold are exhausted the rain will still descend upon the earth, and it is to protect ourselves from overflows and to conserve and use the water in an agricultural way that we must maintain our forests for the people who are to come Mr. Pinchot and party left Ogden early this morning over the Rio Grande for the east, the first stop to be at Colorado Springs, Colo. Chief Forester Pinchot was a very busy man while in the city, moBt of the time being taken tak-en up In the consideration oi business connected with the work or the forestry bureau. He spent the day at the headquarters of the service handling matters that came before blm with an alacrity, precision and competency that well bespoke tho abilities of the man. There were many visitors in the City, who had business with tho bureau, bu-reau, among them being sheep anc cattlemen and ranchers from the various vari-ous sections of this district, which embraces the northern portion of Arizona, Ari-zona, the states of Utah and Nevada, tho southern part of Idaho and tho southwestern part or Wyoming. Every man and combination of men were given a hearing and the matters in which they were concerned were promptly attended to and many explanations ex-planations and adjudications were made. An important decision was given by Mr. Pinchot regarding the grazing privileges asked for on the Humboldt reserve of Nevada. It was that tho property owners or that district would be given grazing allotments In pret-erence pret-erence to the stockmen owning transitory tran-sitory herds. This means that the email stock raiser who has a farm or a ranch in the vicinity or tho reserve re-serve will bo given an opportunity to use the forest reserve Tor grazing purposes. pur-poses. After the allotments have been made to these men what grazing lands in the reserve are still open, will be allotted to the transitory herds. This matter had practically been settled before this time, but had not received the official endorsement or the cnler forester. Mr Pinchot stated that he was determined de-termined to protect the property owners own-ers of all the forest districts against the invasions of the transient people who generally have large herds ot ! 6tock and who would like very much to occupy all of the grazing lands found in the forests. "The little man," be said, "shall not be crowded out so long as I have anything to say about the allotments of tho grazing lands embraced In the resenes. They have their homes in the vicinity of the reserves re-serves and are entitled to the grazing graz-ing privileges there. After they get what they are entitled to, the remaining remain-ing portion of the grazing territory will be given those owning the larger herds that are almost Invariably transitory." tran-sitory." This ruling will exclude great herds, totaling several hundred thousand sheep, owned by Basques, who of late years have overrun tho state with transient bands. . The decision greatly pleased a delegation dele-gation of Nevada sheepmen headed by Senator Warren Williams, and representing repre-senting extensive Interests who were here to meet Mr. Pinchot. After a hard day's worK, .Mr. Pinchot Pin-chot was escorted to the Weber club, where an informal but elaborate banquet ban-quet was given in his honor, other members of the forestry bureau being also distinguished guests. Those who participated In the banquet were: Chief Forester Gilford Pinchot, Clyde Leavitt, district forester at Ogden; L. L. White, chief of silviculture, who has charge of the sale ot timber at Ogden; A. M. Smith, property prop-erty clerk and who has charge or the supply deportment at Ogden; captain James B. Adams, chler of operation at Washington. D. C; H. P. Imes, chief of operation at Ogden; H. B. Cramer, fiscal agent of Washington. D. C; A. T. Mltchelson. district engineer en-gineer at Ogden; A. F. Potter, enter of grazing at Washington. D. C; H. E. Fenn, chief of grazing at Ogden; L. F. Knelpp. assistant chier of grazing graz-ing at Washington, D. C; J. G. Falck, property auditor at Ogden; (j. K. Craft, fiscal agent at Ogden; F. W. Reed, assistant district Torester at Ogden; C. P. Dodge, puDllsher or the Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Bruno Hobbs, representative of the Y..M. C. A. of New York; Mayor Alex Brewer. President A. R. Heywood, A. G. Fell, F, J. Klesel, Wlllard Scow-croft Scow-croft and William Glasmann or Ogden. Og-den. Immediately arter the banquet the party repaired to the Ogdon tabernacle, taber-nacle, where a large and interested audience au-dience awaited the coming or Mr. Pinchot. Pin-chot. who had been programed tor an address on the forestry question. The building was filled with people ana they met with no disappointment in the program that was rendered. The Tabernacle choir, under the direction of Prof. Joseph Ballantyne, furnished music for tho occasion, which was highly appreciated. Before leaving the city Mr. Pinchot took occasion to tender his gratitude, to tho choir tor the beautiful renditions and tho Weber club desires to also extend its thanks to the choir and also to the authorities who so willingly gave up the tabernacle for the occasion. Mr. Plnchot's remarks were nilea with advanced Ideas or the forestry work of the government, expressed m well chosen language and in a very convincing manner. The program rendered at the tabernacle taber-nacle was as follows: Selection . Quartette and Choir Prayer David O. McKay Solo Miss Ueddis Address of "Welcome. .Mayor Brewer Address .' I ...Chief Forester Girrora Pinchot. Mr. Pinchot said In part;. Mr. Mayor, Indies and Gentlemen If there Is anything that could add to the pleasure of being here with you it would be such a greeting as you have been kind enough to give mo and ' I thank you most heartily for it. This Is not the first time I have been in this tabernacle nor spoken from this platfoim I was here during tho great Irrigation congress, at which more distinguished dis-tinguished men were present than at any other irrigation congress ever held. I shall never forget the lmpres sion which the meeting made upon me and (he vigor with which some of the points were broueit out. I have not been In Ogden for some time, but the Impression made then and what the various forest men learned learn-ed about It led to the establishment here of a supply depot for the west, because be-cause It was the most central polut and best suited for tho work. Some months ago I visited the supply depot to sre how things were getting along and was entertained by the Weber club. Some of the members and officers brought up then the question of locating lo-cating the headquarters for this district dis-trict in Ogden. There was a good deal of discussion about IL Salt Lake wanted It and other cities wanted It, but finally it was located In Ogden because be-cause for all reasons taken together, Ogden was thought to be the best place, and I am heartily glad to be ablo to tell you that the experience of tho service so far justifies in every way the choice that was made. (Applause) People of Ogden told us that they would do certain things if the headquarters head-quarters came here.'and It Is a further pleasure to say that In everything promised to us. Ogden has made good. (Applause) We are more and more glad as time goes on that the headquarters head-quarters of the fourth district is located lo-cated here, and I think we are going to keep on being glad. (Applause) I also hope that the citizens of Ogdon will not bo sorry that wo came here. I am exceedingly glad that Mr. Kiesel invited the men in. lie forest service to come and sit upon' tho platform bo that the people may see what they look like in a body. I "like their looks myself my-self and hope you do. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to take a little while tonight, not to ' talk about forestry, but about conservation, conserva-tion, of which forestry Is a part and then a little about. the forest service, Itself, what It la'.trylng to do and how it is trying to do 'it. If you will allow me, I will use. to begin with, a sort of a parable which seems to meet the situation in certain points and make It clear. Once upon a time there was a young man to whom a great property was left and who went into a far country across the sea to examine that property prop-erty and to make hs home upon it, When he found it he traveled all over . it from end to end and tried to see what it could be used for. and to take careful stock of all resources and values. val-ues. After a while he found a wife In the new country and by and by. children chil-dren were added to them and his family fam-ily grew. This young man and wife began to think further Into the future than ever before. At first they thought onlv for the next month or the year, and then the next decade and finally the next generation and it was not very long before all plans were made and all actions were conditioned on tho fact that their children were to inherit in-herit this great property after them, and that the land must also be made to support those coming after them. They began to plan as to how this property could best be used for their children and themselves, taking their livelihood from and living upon it. Once upon a time there was a young nation which crossed the sea and took possession of a great property. The young nation began to explore the land into the possesion of which it had come. It sent its citizens here and there and everywhere, across the rivers riv-ers and over the mountains and on the plains, until . finally this people 6pread from coast to coast. They grew to know that the land was good and thereupon took possession of it from sea to sea and began to use it. Instead of looking forward and planning plan-ning for the next generation, Instead of getting ready to have their children and their children's children occupy it in comfort. thi6 young nation cast aside all thought of the future ami I directed itself purely to the development develop-ment of the next few years, or, what would have been in the life of a man, the next few weeks, making all plans for the immediate future. As the nation grew In population, there came u time at last when It was forced to consider tbat what was good for the young man and his wife, was good for all the men and all the wives of that nation, and all the Individuals began to think of the future and what the coming generations were to do with this land, of the responsibility which the people of today have for the people of tomorrow. Now it is a. curious cur-ious thing that it was not until this nation had grown to become the greatest great-est in the world and one of the most populous, it began to glvo thought to the future. . A The forest service Is working for tho future, as it takes a long time for a tree to grow Practically the first measure of statesmanship which President Roose- ! velt took up after the death of tho la- , mented McKlnlejv before he had even moved into the White House, was tho i irrigation question. He made up his j mind to push the irrigation bill, and it j was a great thing for a man to do upon the threshhold of n career into J which he had been thrown in so ter- ! rlble a way. With the courage, how- j ever, which marked him and always has marked him. ho took it up very j strongly in his first message ' to con-j greas. There are many gentlemen : here upon this platform with me tonight to-night who know and appreciate what j the conditions were at that time. . . 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