The Senate Public Lands Committee searching for grievances inflicted on the people in the administration of U. S. public lands in the West (TIME, Sept. 14) continued its hearings at Klamath Falls (Ore.), at Portland, at Pendleton, at Baker.
It was told: 1) that the pine beetle was destroying $15,000,000 of timber annually, while the Government had only five poorly paid entomologists combating the pest; 2) that the Government has failed to make proper provision for leasing its grazing areas to cattlemen who are being ruined by high fees, and uncertain...
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