Show TIMBER PROTEST A few facts for secretary lamars consideration people who had been aston phed to instructions given land and tin tier agents froni the depart interior a short time ago says the salt lake herald will stand aghast aheu they know that another order has been promulgated to the effect that timber can only be cut on government land by those who design using it for their own personal wants such a howl went up arom every mining region in montana over this order and formidably n protest was to washington against it that the department telegraphed ita agents to suspend operations until the affair could be more closely clos cly looked into in utah there has risen gc arcely over the rul ing though it has not yet taken the form of any demonstration the mining companies in park city however have just received an anti inti mation that they were to bo investigated ti and yesterday several prominent business inen took the matter in hand got follows ing petition an d sent it on to washington SALT LAKE cm utah november 1885 to the honorable secretary of the interior washington D C fl your of utah engaged in nii nine farming merchandising chan dising banking stock growing lumbering lum berine and all other kinds of business having heard that the interior department contemplates the prescription of new rules for the restriction of the use of timber rowing on the public lands in utah and other territories beg leave to represent that neither mining nor any other business whatever can bp carried on in utah and territories similarly situated without the use of timber for building fencing mining railroading fuel etc people must have the use of the scanty timber supply native to the country or they cannot live here at all any more than they could without the use of the water in the streams or of the air eliat blows ever fields all the timber in the country belongs to the government ever as trustee for the people and the government has provided no way in which the people can acquire alie right to use it suits are now pending in the courts of utah against sundry persons for trespass the trespass being in using the public timber lucli suits have been instituted aiom time to timp during the last quarter of a century but they were seldom if ever pressed to a final issue because they were seen to be unjust that it was the government the law and not the people that was in fault in this dilemma it has been the practice af pf the interior department endeavor to prevent the waste of public timber and to wink at the tres spass on payment by alio trespasser of a certain percentage of the value of the timber used as this was not only a wise action proceeding from a comprehension of the necessities of the case as all government action in the end must but for that very reason it the only ac tion that was or la practicable I 1 J now this policy ie to be abandoned and the law strictly enforced it surely behooves a wise government to provide some way in which the people can lawfully secure the use of the limber growing in the country there are objections to the belling of the timber lands outright to being very limited city they would PASS into lie hands of speculators peculators tors probably of corpora ationo ati ont would the price of lumber be doubled or timber in utah growa in heavy bodies or as large trees but straggling scattered the trees email and clinging fyr the must pan to the precipitous northern acclivities of tho mountains in laigh altitudes on absolutely worthless land but for the timber it would be extremely and expensive to survey a great part ot them and were it to bo provided by law that our timber lands might be purchased atthe it ie questionable tio it 0 per rent of them would ever be bought because it would not aw an our judgment the better course would to continuo the policy of atie past an d if no law for it to make law for it As to alio rule aid to be contemplated by permitting the timber to be used but re each everto doubtless doubt lesa proceeds eda from a laudable desire to prevent or restrict speculation in the public timber hut ia ie an error to that speculation in the far at least this territory is concerned is possibly blu all alie timber cut by lumbermen in butali ia used in utah ata foot of it 1 exported competition in lumbering ia ae close as in other countries and our lumbermen make no than a fair profit on their business they may be by the letter of the law aliey certainly are not they are trespassers of labor which obtains here ae elsewhere and for the su reason and whatever their guilt as trespassers all tho people who buy lumber of them and use it aro equally guilty are the lumbermen to be made all of the people or all the peaple to bo prosecuted as trespassers to suppress sup presa thu lumber business ln the territories bif ro possible would bo equivalent pressing all business anil eliat wound atop the yearly output of or of the precious roel als and force half the inhabitants after bankruptcy to seek homes and business elsewhere your onera cannot bring to that our government waa or is maintained ly harsh and tyrannical work as that but rather to be an advantage advant uge and aid to those alio authorize autho rizo and support it viz the people the leaea that the government can wisely do in view of the facia and the law je to continue the polley of tle appoint limber agents to wate and to colled but if it proposes to abandon that policy reu JOX present that it lias no night to do so until it befall linao provided a way for alie people to acquire these lands for it must bo pevious that no fact whatever they may h in law trespassers for making alio necessary uga of the tim ber growing in tholand they inhabit no government has the right to so ro strict them absolutely nor can any government any such right or onforio it we ask simply that if wa are to be restricted from lifting the public ciui tiui ber aa iu the past paying whatever may a demanded be provided whereby it can become or be made timber and it seems to your petitioners petition ers that no request could be more reasonable or carry more weight union national bank walker bros geo M scott co jeremy A co it C chambers bupt supt ontario win M ferry U J Wenner Prest silver key company T G linus iftner calumet group abes sen 11 N baskin T R jones co J E dooley cashier wells fargo co mccormick co 11 mackintosh john stona co W II 11 bancroft receiver J mcgrigor hugh anderson E 1 ferry agent for proprietors of park city crescent and anchor company A hanauer alio lead mine per N aco boss L E II olden Pru aident and manager old jordan M and aco II 11 W lawrence ager frisco M nod S co charles apex and lawrence coe S P deseret national bank Z F auer back bros kahn bros james sharp mayor john T caine M C merritt marshall bovle osceola gravel M co queen of alio co frisco M co per ben II ampton bonnett bark ness kirkpatrick and sampson mining company per A IIan rue president |