IQOS 



IN THE DEPARTMENTS 



287 



Irrigable Land on Main Truckee Canal, Nevada 



Bartolome Fernandez land grants and 

 the original forest. A greater portion 

 of this area is covered with a fair stand 

 of yellow pine timber, which, although 

 it may not be of any great commercial 

 value at the present time, promises to 

 be of great importance in the future. 



In the other addition to the Man- 

 zano No. 2, on the ridge lying north- 

 west of the town of San Mateo, there 

 are some scattered bodies of yellow 

 pine upon the higher points, while the 

 remaining area is clothed with a dense 

 stand of juniper and pinon, which will 

 average at least ten cords per acre. 



Cheap 



Cement 



Production 



During the year 1907 

 there were produced at 

 the cement mill at Roose- 

 velt, on the Salt River project, Ari- 

 zona, 42,145 barrels of cement at an 

 average cost of $2.27 per barrel. The 

 mill was shut down for over four and 

 one-half months of the period, but all 

 expenses for office salaries, superin- 

 tendent's wages and skilled laborers 



kept on the payroll have been included 

 in estimating the unit cost. The cost 

 of repairs has also been included, but 

 no allowance has been made for gen- 

 eral depreciation of the plant. The 

 shutting down of the mill was necessi- 

 tated by the lack of requirements for 

 cement by the contractor and the con- 

 sequent crowded condition of the 

 storage bins for both the clinker and 

 the finished product. Moreover, the 

 mill, when running, was doing so at 

 only a little over one-half of its 

 normal capacity. Had it been operated 

 at full capacity continuously through- 

 out the year, the average cost of the 

 output would have been considerably 

 less than $2 per barrel. 



Y.M.C.A.and Mr. Clarence J. Hicks, 

 Reclamation o-eneral secretary of the 

 Service y ^j ^ ^ ^f ^^^^ 



York, has called at the Washington 

 office and discussed with the Director 

 the oracticability of introducing Y. M. 

 C. A. work in the principal camps of 



