Speech #590151115

I think. before 1895. before there was a forest reserve created. except the Bitter Root Reserve. which is the one reserve in the center of the State which is not small. but comparatively small. Along capm the forest reservers and placed forest reserves over portions of that road that cost more than $175.000 and took possession of it. and the State itself is there now on its own road only by the grace of the forest reservers. That road was intended to allow the immigrants landing in the east end of the State intersected by railroads to pass easily into tile Interior and settle and take advantage of the opportunities to make homes there. Yet they can go there now over that State wagon road only by the grace of the Forester and subject to the rules and regulations of the Forestry Service. Mr.