"Many of the existing laws affecting rights of way and privileges on public lands and reservations are illogical and unfair."
"I am gravely concerned at the extremely unsatisfactory condition of the public land laws and at the prevalence of fraud under their present provisions."
"The money value of the national forests now reserved for the use and benefit of the people exceeds considerably the sum of one thousand millions of dollars."
"I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers."
"The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation."
"To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitation of the Isthmus, would have been disastrous."
"Some work injustice by granting valuable rights in perpetuity without return."
"Especial care has been devoted to minimizing the risk due to the presence of those species of mosquitoes which have been found to propagate malarial and yellow fevers."
"The timber and stone act has demonstrated conclusively that its effect is to turn over the public timber lands to great corporations."
"I visited many of the different villages, inspecting thoroughly many different buildings."
"Many of the buildings they put up were excellent and are still in use."