anaheim-gazette 1907-10-31

LAND'S NATURAL RESOURCES Their Conservation The Only Basis of Future National Success—Public Lands System The most prosperous nation of today is the United States. Our unexampled wealth and well-being are directly due to the superb national resources of our country, and to the use which has been made of them by our citizens, both in the present and in the past. We are prosperous because our forefathers bequeathed to us a land of resources still unexhausted. Shall we conserve these resources and in our turn transmit them, still unexhausted, to our descendants? Unless we do, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. When the natural resources of any nation become exhausted, disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course. Therefore the conservation of natural resources is the basis, and the only permanent basis, of national success. There are other conditions, but this one lies at the foundation. We are in the habit of speaking of the solid earth and the eternal hills as though they, at least, were free from the vicissitudes of time and certain to furnish perpetual support for prosperous human life. This conclusion is as until it can pass into the hands of settlers who will make their home it. As methods of agriculture and new dry-land crops are interspersed vast areas once considered useful for cultivation are being made prosperous homes, and this means only begun. The single object of the public system of the United States, as President Roosevelt has repeatedly cited is the making and maintenance of prosperous homes. That object be achieved unless such of the lands as are suitable for settlement conserved for the actual home. Such lands should pass from the session of the government directing only into the hands of the settlers lives on the land. Of all forms ofervation there is none more imminent than that of holding the public for the actual home-maker. It is a notorious fact that the land laws have been deflected their benificent original purpose home-making by lax administration short-sighted departmental decision and the growth of an unhealthy sentiment in portions of the Great areas of the public domain passed into the hands, not of the maker, but of large individual whose object is always the make profit and seldom the making of it. It is sometimes urged that enlighten self-interest will lead me have acquired large holdings of lands to put them to their most productive use, and it is said with that this best use is the tillage of areas by small owners. Unfortunate facts and this theory disprove even the most cursory examination large holdings throughout these will refute the contention, that matter of course. Therefore the conservation of natural resources is the basis, and the only permanent basis, of national success. There are other conditions, but this one lies at the foundation. We are in the habit of speaking of the solid earth and the eternal hills as though they, at least, were free from the vicissitudes of time and certain to furnish perpetual support for prosperous human life. This conclusion is as false as the term "inexhaustible" applied to other resources. The waste of soil is among the most dangerous of all wastes now in progress in the United States. In 1896 Professor Shaler, than whom no one has spoken with greater authority on this subject, estimated that in the upland regions of the states south of Pennsylvania three thousand square miles of soil had been destroyed as the result of forest denudation, and that the destruction was then proceeding at the rate of one hundred square miles of fertile soil per year. No seeing man can travel through the United States without being struck with the enormous and unnecessary loss of fertility by easily preventable soil wash. The soil so lost, as in the case of many other wastes, becomes itself a source of damage and expense, and must be removed from the channels of our navigable streams at an enormous annual cost. The Mississippi river alone is estimated to transport yearly four hundred million tons of sediment, or about twice the amount of material to be excavated from the Panama canal. This material is the most fertile portion of our richest fields, transformed from a blessing to a curse by unrestricted erosion. The destruction of forage plants by overgrazing has resulted, in the opinion of men most capable of judging, in reducing the grazing value of the public lands by one-half. This enormous loss of forage, serious though it be in itself, is not the only result of wrong methods of pasturage. The destruction of forage plants is accompanied by loss of surface soil through erosion; by forest destruction by corresponding deterioration in the water supply; and by a serious decrease in the quality and weight of animals grown on overgrazed lands. These sources of loss from failure to conserve the range are felt today. They are accompanied by the certainty of a It is sometimes urged that enlightenment self-interest will lead me have acquired large holdings of lands to put them to their most productive use, and it is said with that this best use is the tillage of areas by small owners. Unfortunate facts and this theory discredit Even the most cursory examination large holdings throughout these will refute the contention that the intelligent self-interest of large ones results promptly and directly in making of homes. Few passions on human mind are stronger than hunger, and the large holder climbs his land until circumstances make actually impossible for him to buy any longer. Large holdings reshape sheep or cattle ranges, in huge range in great areas held for speculative in price, and not in homes. Use the American homestead system small freeholders is to be replaced foreign system of tenantry, there few things of more importance than west than to see to it that the lands pass directly into the hands the actual settler instead of into hands of the man who, if he can force the settler to pay him the earned profit of the land speculator will hold him in economic and practical dependance as a tenant. If we to have homes on the public lands, must be conserved for the men make homes. The lowest estimate reached by Forest Service of the timber now standing in the United States is 1,400 billion feet, board measure; the highest, 2 billion. The present annual consultation is approximately 100 billion while the annual growth is but a third of the consumption, or from thirty-forty billion feet. If we accept larger estimate of the standing time 2,000 billion feet, and the larger estimate of the annual growth, 40 billion feet, and apply the present rate of sumption, the result shows a probable duration of our supplies of timber not more than thirty-three years. Estimates of this kind are almost evitably misleading. For example is certain that the rate of consumption of timber will increase enormously the future, as it has in the past, so long as supplies remain to draw upon. Act knowledge of many other factors needed before closely accurate itself, is not the only result of wrong methods of pasturage. The destruction of forage plants is accompanied by loss of surface soil through erosion; by forest destruction by corresponding deterioration in the water supply; and by a serious decrease in the quality and weight of animals grown on overgrazed lands. These sources of loss from failure to conserve the range are felt today. They are accompanied by the certainty of a future loss not less important, for range lands once badly overgrazed can be restored to their former value but slowly or not at all. The obvious and certain remedy is for the government to hold and control the public range Dentists Use milk of magnesia because of its antacid and cleansing properties. Boradent Tooth Paste is made with milk of magnesia as a base; antiseptic oils to destroy mouth germs; aromatics to make it agreeable; precipitated chalk to polish the teeth. The daily use of Boradent Tooth Paste means freedom from the customary tooth troubles. At all druggists, 25 cents Troy Pharmaceutical Company PUZZLED OVER THE MEAT question? Then come right here and solve the problem. In the first place we can suit your taste, whether you desire MEAT, POULTRY OR PROVISIONS And every pound you buy here is the best that money can buy at any price. Yet you will find that our charges are so much lower than the usual that the meat item in your household expenses will be considerably reduced. CITY MARKET, Chris Gelderman, Prop. Odd Fellows' Bldg. Center St. Sunset 201 price of coal, iron, and other minerals. The railways, which have as yet failed entirely to develop a satisfactory substitute for the wooden tie (and must, in the opinion of their best engineers, continue to fail), will be profoundly affected and the cost of transportation will suffer a corresponding increase. Water power for lighting, manufacturing and transportation, and the movement of freight and passengers by inland waterways, will be affected still more directly than the steam railways. The cultivation of the soil, with or without irrigation, will be hampered. KEEP your eyes open. Visit Hatzfeld's Drug Store. Loys of seasonable goods there. 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Rhodes Scholarship Word has just been received from the Trustees of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in England that the next qualifying examinations will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 21-22, 1908. The places for examinations are Berkeley, Stanford University, and Occidental College, Los Angeles. The examinations are qualifying rather than competitive. Those who qualify in this institute for the wooden tie (and must, in the opinion of their best engineers, continue to fail), will be profoundly affected and the cost of transportation will suffer a corresponding increase. Water power for lighting, manufacturing and transportation, and the movement of freight and passengers by inland waterways, will be affected still more directly than the steam railways. The cultivation of the soil, with or without irrigation, will be hampered by the increased cost of agricultural tools, fencing, and the wood needed for other purposes about a farm. Irrigated agriculture will suffer most of all, for the destruction of the forests means the loss of the waters as surely as night follows day. With the rise in the cost of producing food, the cost of food itself will rise. Commerce in general will necessarily be affected by the difficulties of the primary industries upon which it depends. In a word, when the forests fail, the daily life of the average citizen will inevitably feel the pinch on every side. And the forests have already begun to fall, as the direct result of the suicidal policy of forest destruction which the people of the United States have allowed themselves to pursue. First Name AND Drafts sold directly Interest F OFFICERS W.F. BOTSFORD, President JOHN HARTUNG, Vice President FRANK SHANLEY, 2d Vice O. ZEUS, Assistant Cashier Word has just been received from the Trustees of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in England that the next qualifying examinations will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 21-22, 1908. The places for examinations are Berkeley, Stanford University, and Occidental College, Los Angeles. The examinations are qualifying rather than competitive. Those who qualify in this test will then be judged on their standing in scholarship, together with the qualifications laid down by the late Cecil Rhodes in his will. These include "his fondness for and success in manly out-door sports, such as cricket, football, and the like," his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the week, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, and his exhibition during school days of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates. The chairman of the Committee of Selection in California is President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, and the other two members of the committee are President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, and Dean E. C. Norton, of Pomona College. 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