anaheim-gazette 1908-06-25

OUR NATURAL RESOURCES A Story by Gifford Pinchot, Forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture—A Great Problem Before Us. The conservation of our natural resources is a subject which has received little attention in the past; but the facts in the case are so simple, the principles so elementary, and our duty so clear, that they might be fitly presented in a story like one of the old fairy tales that we all loved when we were boys and girls. Such a story would run like this: Once upon a time there was a young nation which left its home and moved on to a new continent. As soon as the people who formed the first settlements began to examine the value and condition of this new continent, they found it marvelously rich in every possible resource. The forests were so vast that, in the early days, they were not a blessing, but a hindrance. The soil was so rich and there was so much of it that they were able at first only to cultivate the edges of their great property. It was quite plain to these people in the early times that, however much land they might cover, however much they might waste, there was always going to be plenty left. As time went on they discovered greater and greater resources. They found wonderfully rich deposits of metallic ore; great oil and gas fields and vast stretches of the richest bituminous and anthracite coal lands; noble rivers flowing through broad expanses of meadow; rich alluvial prairies; great plains covered with countless herds of buffalo and antelope; mountains filled with minerals; and everywhere opportunities richer than ing like our wealth, nothing average happiness of our life be found elsewhere; and mental reason for this is, side, the vast natural resources we had at hand, and on the character, ability and people. Now what have we done with resources which have made and what is the present co-which this marvelously vision of ours finds itself? The of our times is "development" man from New York to San Francisco looks to the development of resources to produce the food and the opportunities he wants neighbors and his friends who questions the wisdom of methods we are using in bright development to pass, because lives we are making misery will be expensive later on, is of being considered an enemy perity. He is in danger of thought of him that he does pride in our great achievement is not a very good American reality it is no sign that a pride in the United States wonderful things our people in-developing this great cause he wants to see that dego go on indefinitely. On the real patriotism and pride in try make it the first of all due that our nation shall continue per. In sober truth, we have ourselves into a condition in very serious diminution of most necessary resources is true. This nation has, on the coast North America, three and a half square miles. What should we with it? How can we make and our children happiest, most ous and efficient, and our othe highest and most influen they entered into this vast possession and began to use it. They did not need to think much about how they used their coal or oil or timber or water—they would last—and they began to encroach on the supply with freedom and in confidence that there would always be plenty. The only word with which they described what they had, when they talked about it, was the word "inexhaustible." Let us see for a moment what the course of development of this young nation was. First of all they needed men and women to settle on the land and bring up children and have a stake in the country. That was absolutely necessary before they could develop the great nation which some of them saw ahead. As the population spread there arose a need that great systems of transportation should be built to knit the country together and provide for the interchange of its products. These railroads called for iron, coal and timber in great quantities. Then began an unprecedented demand upon the forests. They could not build these transcontinental railroad lines without millions upon millions of railroad ties cut from the forests of the country; and they could not mine the iron and coal except as the forests gave them the means of timbering their mines, transporting the ore, and disposing of the finished product. The whole civilization which they built up was conditioned on iron, coal and timber. As they developed their continent, richer than any other from the East coast to the West, new resources became revealed to them, new interests took possession of them, and they used the old resources in new ways. In the East, the rivers meant to them only means of transportation; in the West they began to see that the rivers meant first of all crops; that they must that our nation shall continue per. In sober truth, we have ourselves into a condition in very serious diminution of so most necessary resources is u This nation has, on the coast North America, three and a million square miles. What should it? How can we make and our children happiest, most efficient, and our own the highest and most influential use that splendid heritage not the nation to undertake that question in the spirit of prudence and foresight? The son to think we are on the verge to ourselves: "Let us do can with our natural resource find out what we have, how they be used, how they can best be Above all, let us have clearly in great and fundamental fact that will not end in the year 1935 dred years after that, or five years after that; that we are ning a national history that which we can not see, since we young." In truth we are at point in that history. As Roosevelt has said, we are acting of the ways. We may pass the line we have been follow haust our natural resources to let the future take care of we may do the simple, obvi mon-sense thing in the international, just as each of us own personal affairs. On the way in which we handle this great possession been given us, on the turn we take now, hangs the those who are to come after ever success we may have in line of national endeavor, we regulate trusts properly, while control our great public seporations as we should, whether and labor adjust their relative best manner or not—what may do with all these and our questions, behind and below is this fundamental problem going to protect our spring perity, our sources of well raw material of industry merce, and employer of care labor combined; or are we go sitate them? According as or ignore our responsibility and of the nation's welfare, our lization which they built up was conditioned on iron, coal and timber. As they developed their continent, richer than any other from the East coast to the West, new resources became revealed to them, new interests took possession of them, and they used the old resources in new ways. In the East, the rivers meant to them only means of transportation; in the West they began to see that the rivers meant first of all crops; that they must put the rivers on the land by irrigation before they could grow wheat, alfalfa, fruits, sugar beets and other crops that make the West rich. They found that to feed the vast population which had grown up in the East they must have the vast ranges of the West to grow meat. They found that the resources of soil and water which produced the wheat, the cotton and the meat—of iron and coal, and of timber, together made up the working capital of a great nation, and that the nation could not grow unless it had all of these things. In taking possession of them our nation used them with greater effectiveness, greater energy and enterprise, than any other nation had ever shown before. Nothing like our growth, noth- Scott's Emulsion strengthens enfeebled nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and nerve force. It provides baby with the necessary fat and mineral food for healthy growth. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00. MONEY can be borrowed on more favorable terms from the SAVINGS, LOAN and BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF ANAHEIM than from any similar institution in the State A Home Institution... conducted by home men If you want to borrow money at a low rate to pay off your present mortgage, or to build a home or to improve your present one, address or call on Fred A. Backs, Jr Secretary Anaheim When you have that blue and disagreeable feeling drink a glass of the famous Anaheim beer, and smoke a North Light cigar. That will fix you up. Both are union made. First class land with probably the cheapest water supply in the state, on small payments. John Schumacher, Jr., Anaheim, Cal. ON THE TEXAS FEVER TICK Eradication of the Pest will save Stockmen of South and West Millions of Dollars Annually. The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture is resuming active operations for the eradication of the cattle ticks which prevail in the southern part of the country and transmit the contagion of Texas fever of cattle. Its men are being sent into the field and prepare The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture is resuming active operations for the eradication of the cattle ticks which prevail in the southern part of the country and transmit the contagion of Texas fever of cattle. Its men are being sent into the field and preparations are being made to push the work of extermination vigorously during the warm weather, when the ticks are most active. Since this work was begun, two years ago, an area of about 56,000 square miles, or almost the size of the State of Georgia, has been freed from the ticks. As a result the quarantine on southern cattle has been either modified or entirely removed from this area. Last year work was done to a greater or less extent in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and California, and it is proposed this year to continue in the same States with the addition of a small portion of Mississippi. Most of the work has been and will continue to be done in sections contiguous to the quarantine line, the object being to push the line farther south from year to year; but encouragement is given to local work in any part of the quarantined district in the assurance that when any considerable area is rendered tick free it will be released from quarantine. The work is being done by cooperation between the Federal Government and the State and local authorities. Congress has appropriated $250,000 for the year beginning July 1, and it is expected that the States and counties where the work is carried on will duplicate this sum. The committee on appropriations of the House of Representatives expressed itself very strongly to the effect that the States should bear a reasonable share of the cost and that the Federal work should be mainly confined to States where cooperation is received. Various methods for exterminating the ticks are used, including transferring the cattle from pasture to pasture at suitable intervals, and dipping, spraying, and hand dressing the cattle with oil and oil emulsion. In sections there are no reports on these methods. with all these and other such behind and below them all fundamental problem, are we protect our springs of prosperous sources of well being, our trial of industry and commercial employer of capital and business; or are we going to disenchant? According as we accept our responsibility as trustees of nation's welfare, our children children's children for ungenerations will call us blessed, in their suffering at our doors. We decide whether lives, on the earth to be lived in a flourishing full of all that helps to make portable, happy, strong and/or whether their lives are to a country like the miserable regions of the earth which once before us have possessed resight and turned into hope. We are no more exempt operation of natural law than people of any other part of the world when the facts are squarely when the magnitude of the stake is clearly before our will surely be decided right. Various methods for exterminating the ticks are used, including transferring the cattle from pasture to pasture at suitable intervals, and dipping, spraying, and hand dressing the cattle with oil and oil emulsion. In sections where there are large herds and large ranches dipping on a large scale is practiced, either alone or in connection with pasture rotation, while in other sections, where the cattle on some farms frequently consist only of a cow or an ox team, hand dressing with oil is found to be the only practicable method. The damage caused by the ticks and the benefits to follow from their eradication are not generally appreciated. It is estimated that the Texas-fever tick is responsible for about $40,000,000 of loss annually to the people of the infected country, and that it also lowers the assets of the South by an additional $23,250,000, making the enormous aggregate of $63,250,000. To wipe out this heavy loss is the object of the work now under way, and the results already accomplished leave no doubt that success is possible, though a number of years will be required for the completion of the undertaking. Much depends upon the cattle owners, who can either hasten or retard progress according as they co-operate or refuse to assist in the work. Literature giving full information as to the ticks, the disease which they transmit, and methods for their eradication has been issued by the Department of Agriculture, and will be supplied free of charge on application to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D.C. Does your Checking Account Pay Interest? 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