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President Roosevelt believes that Representative Lacey’s bill authorizing the leasing of public lands and the removal of natural resources from them is the best of the three bills.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-22
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock copies of the text of several letters concerning grants of land and oil and gas leases held by Richard C. Adams. He tells Hitchcock that it would be unfair to deprive Adams of privileges he had been assured of by one of these earlier letters, allowing him to lease 9600 acres rather than the usual 4800 acres, and therefore directs that newly amended regulations not apply to Adams’s leases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-01
Gifford Pinchot reflects on the conservation record of the Woodrow Wilson administration in this open letter. Pinchot believes that because Wilson refused to take sides, or took the wrong side, the question of the people winning in the Shields and Myers waterpower bills and the Phelan oil bill is questionable. It is not possible to compromise with men who would use public resources for private profit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-09-20
Gifford Pinchot sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the statement issued from the Chicago meeting. Pinchot also believes defeat possible for the Phelan oil bill, a measure that would take oil reserves away from the Navy; the Shields and Myers bills may be beatable as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-12-15