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President Roosevelt has no additional statements about forests for M. I. McCreight and will send his letter to Chief of the U. S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-28
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of Agriculture Wilson that ranchman Walter C. Staton will submit evidence of the case. The farmers involved are unsure how to proceed and are potentially “suffering a grievous wrong.” As it is of “great personal interest,” Roosevelt instructs Wilson to thoroughly investigate the matter, reiterating that if the allegations are true, “immediate and drastic action is called for.”
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1906-09-05
President Roosevelt was interested to read Senator Beveridge’s letter, and wishes he could have gone on a canoe trip in the woods himself. He promises to speak with Gifford Pinchot and try to convince him to accompany Beveridge, although he cannot promise he will be successful.
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1906-08-15
President Roosevelt greatly appreciated a recent editorial by Frank Irving Cobb, and believes that Cobb is correct in highlighting the administrative work of government of enforcing and administering laws as important. Roosevelt names a number of people involved in his government who he believe are doing very good work.
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1906-07-03
President Roosevelt dictates a letter to, and in the presence of, Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, recording the attitude of himself, Hitchcock, Senator Frank P. Flint of California, Director of the Geological Survey Charles D. Walcott, and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, on the topic of the Los Angeles water supply bill. Hitchcock believes that the city should be prohibited from using the water obtained by the bill for irrigation. Flint worries that because the water bill aims to supply water for the next half century, there will be a surplus at the beginning of the term that will need to be used in order to keep their rights to it. Walcott and Pinchot believe there is no objection to using the water for irrigation so long as it is surplus water not needed for drinking, washing, fire, and other work. Roosevelt notes that much of the opposition to the bill as a whole comes from power companies, and ultimately recommends that the bill be passed without a prohibition on using the water for irrigation, but with a prohibition against the city selling water rights to corporations or individuals for the purpose of subletting it for irrigation purposes.
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1906-06-25
President Roosevelt recently received a book containing Philip J. MacMahon’s report on the timber in Queensland, Australia, and thanks MacMahon for the information.
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1906-04-16
President Roosevelt tells Arthur W. Little that he thinks an article about Seth Bullock like Little proposes would be interesting, but he does not think it would be possible to write it in the way Little hopes. Roosevelt proposes an alternate method of writing the article.
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1906-04-09
President Roosevelt thanks Robert H. Gardiner for letting him see an address given by Gifford Pinchot.
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1906-04-10
President Roosevelt comments on a number of Land Office matters to William R. Lighton, and sends him a copy of Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot’s comments about a forest reserve matter in Nebraska. Roosevelt has begun investigations on United States Land Office Register James Whitehead, as well as the removal of illegal fences of Bartlett Richards’ in Nebraska. He has been heavily petitioned to pardon George G. Ware, who has been convicted of land fraud. Roosevelt comments on the difficulty of enforcing laws when “the people are almost a unit against the enforcement of a given law.”
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1906-04-06
President Roosevelt is “delighted” with the interesting volumes from botanist Charles G. Rogers. He will share them with Gifford Pinchot, head of the Forestry Service.
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1906-03-10
Jacob A. Riis’s son John Riis accepted the position of Forest Guard offered to him by Gifford Pinchot.
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1906-02-22
President Roosevelt thanks Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, for sending him Flora L. Shaw’s book, as well as his courtesy to Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot. He asks Grey to let him know if he can do anything to increase the good feelings between the United States and Canada.
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1906-01-19
President Roosevelt will carefully go over John Barber White’s two letters with Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot. Roosevelt thanks White for the service he has rendered to the government, and would like to have him to lunch or dinner if he is going to be in Washington.
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1906-01-03
President Roosevelt is grateful to John Campbell Greenway for taking “so much trouble” about a certain matter. He has followed Gifford Pinchot’s advice.
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1905-12-04
President Roosevelt agrees with his son Kermit’s thoughts on Nicholas Nickleby, and says that in general, he prefers novels that have joyous and noble aspects, rather than ones that are depressing and have sorrow, shame, and suffering in them. He updates his son on the activities at the White House, including a visit from African big game hunter Frederick Courteney Selous, and Quentin Roosevelt’s birthday celebrations.
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1905-11-19
President Roosevelt is glad that his son Theodore Roosevelt visited Kermit Roosevelt at Groton School, and is glad that Kermit had a chance to play football this fall. He encourages him to “peg away” at his studies. He is having his “usual number of difficulties” that any President has, and has taken scramble walks in Rock Creek Park and gone riding with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt discusses the books that Edith is reading to Archibald B. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt, and the books that he plans to read them in her absence.
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1905-11-12
President Roosevelt tells Charles Sheldon that Frederick Courteney Selous is visiting for a night or two, and asks him to come to Washington. He will try to get Gifford Pinchot and a few other men to come to dinner to discuss “nothing but forests and big game.”
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1905-11-12
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a surprise weekend visit from Ted Roosevelt. Ted, who brought a friend, is enjoying Harvard even though he will not make the freshman football team. Roosevelt leaves tomorrow for his southern trip, and looks forward to it being over, when he will be done with “tours of speech-making.”
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1905-10-17
President Roosevelt comments on the “corking buck” that Stewart Edward White got, and thinks he could have preserved its antlers. He wishes White luck with the bears. He has sent White’s letter to Gifford Pinchot for advice.
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1905-10-05
President Roosevelt outlines for Attorney General Moody the tension between those in the state of Colorado who favor the construction of the Moffatt Railroad at the expense of dams, and those along the lower Colorado River who insist that the dams are vital to their well-being. The railroad owners and investors insist that the railroad cannot be built without great expense if the dam in question is built, though the Reclamation Services says that it can. Roosevelt asks Moody to contact Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock on the matter at once.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-09