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Show J I; NOT FORBIDDEN. j : As we anticipated, Commissioner ! Sparks has made no order forbidding the cutting of timber save by the individual if !' who was going to use it. Such an order j would have been foolish in the extreme, and we never once gave any credence to 1 ; the rumor that it had been made or would I 1 he made. - To credit stch a rumor was to I doubt the sanity of the Commissioner of I the Land Office. The rules of the In- tcrior Department in regard to. land I - and timber are entirely unsatisfactory, I and to act iu accordance with the I rule of to-day is liable to be a breach of some rule to-morrow. The rules seems to be made in accordance , . i . with mere whims, and sometimes the I 1 whims are good and sometimes they are ;! bad, but; they are always inconstant. I j From, the rules that are promulgated I from the Interior Department from time j to time, one would imagine that the I, country was passing from the glacial epoch to the full glory of the nineteenth century all in a year or two. The rules, I : . whatever they are, should be fixed and ! ' should not be continually changing. This I j - applies to timber as well as to j I land, but just , at present the j timber question is uppermost in f Utah and the adjoining Territories. iThe Delegate from Utah, as well as the Delegates from Idaho and Montana, j should interest himself in this mat- . j ter, for the interests of a large number of I j his constituents are dependent ujon i - the timber supply in the mountains and . the ease or difficulty with which it can be : had. The Government should preserve the timber from waste and destruction, ' and perhaps from lieing cut for export j - purposes from the Territories, but the I i t mine owners and all interested in mines ! and the general welfare of the Territories, j j should aid the Government in preserving i j the timber in the mountains. Much of ! ! ; the timber is destroyed by fire, but the : L fires, as a rule, are the result of careless- ( ness, and. could easily be prevented, f Campers and prospectors should never j .; allow afire to remain after "they quit I ; camp or start on their journey. Cannot !, our local Legislature do something to ? preserve the timber trom wanton destruc- . tion, and especially around the heads of j the various mountain streams from which the water supply comes? Something should be done, or it ; will not be many ! years before the Territory will be with- ; j . out water or timber. |