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3 This bill however plausible seems to me only a cunningly devised lawyer's fable--a sounding brass tinkling cymbal in which
the few garden patches so-called farms located in the lower western margin of the park the one mine that has ever paid for
working are made use of in the interests of lumbermen sheepmen to get the other three sides of the park cut down,--on the
north for lumber, on the south for lumber, on the east beneath the summit peaks for sheep pasture. On the other hand the
argument for the preservation intelligent managment of the nation's forests seems to me solid as geometry has been demonstrated
over over again by the experience of every nation under the sun in which the question has arisen. Bancroft Library