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CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



IRRIGATION IN EASTERN WASHINGTON Frontispiece 



THE PATHFINDER DAM— By C. J. Blanchard 317 



WATER CIRCULATION AND ITS CONTROL— By Bailey Willis 325 



A MILLION WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION 3.^6 



THE GREAT TREES OF CALIFORNIA— Po£';n— By Archibald Hopkins 347 



HOW THE HOUSE VOTED— By Edwin A. Start 348 



EDITORIAL— 



How Water Transportation Saves 358 



Kansas City's Figlit for Her River 358 



.Missouri for Waterways 359 



State Parks 3G0 



Towns witliout Taxes 3ti0 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



(Jood Words for Conservation 3G7 



Setting an Example 3G7 



Senator Root Planting Trees 307 



Progress in Massaelinsetts 367 



Conservation in Rluxle Island 3(j7 



Conservation in Arkansas 307 



What Illinois Women Want 367 



The Ogle County Wliite Pines 368 



State Parks Win Public Favor 36S 



Immense Profits of German Forests 369 



Tlie Biltmore Fires 369 



Yale Forestry Students in Texas 369 



American Pomological Meeting 370 



Remember the Raisin ! .... 370 



The Counties Committee at Work 370 



Utilizing a Volcano 370 



Mr. Xewell's Visit to Hawaii 371 



Conservation in Hawaii 371 



Protecting Water Supplies 373 



Good Work by the Pennsylvania Railroad 373 



(Jrowtli of the Forest Service 373 



Mr. Pineliot at Delta 374 



Public Activity Plus Private 361 



Prosperity to Be Genuine Must Be General 363 



New Jersey Protects Woodlands 363 



Waste of Resources Due to Fire 364 



Wliat Sliall We Do aliout It ? 365 



To Examine National Forest Boundaries 



Withdrawal of Public Lands 



Senate Committee to Visit Irrigation Projects... 



Irrigation in Wasliington 



The National Irrigation Congress at Spokane... 

 Mr. Pineliot to .Vttend National Irrigation Con- 

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gress 



Competition for Next Irrigation Congress 



Land and Irrigation Exposition 



Nebraska No Longer "Wild" 



Investment in Water Transportation 



To Reclaim Oklalioma Land 



The Largest Fountain in the United States 



The Smoke Nuisance 



Maine's Peat Bogs 



To Save Miners' Lives 



Mississippi's Rank in Naval Stores Production... 



To Create Municipal Forests 



Saving Storm-felled Trees from Borers 



Consumption of Pulp Wood in the United States 



Japan Fights Paper Famine 



Waste in Iron Menaces Race 



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