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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



Laboratory 

 of Wood 

 Chemistry 



The laboratories of the 

 Office of Wood Chemis- 

 try have heretofore 

 been located at Boston 

 and New Haven. They are now being 

 consolidated in Washington, quarters 

 having been found at 1530 Pennsyl- 

 vania Avenue Southeast. The one 

 hitherto at Boston has dealt with pa- 

 per pulp questions largely ; and the 

 one at New Haven with wood distilla- 

 tion. 



Nevada 



The President has just 

 and'urah signed proclamations 



creating the new Vegas 

 National Forest in Nevada, and mak- 

 ing an addition to the Aquarius Na- 

 tional Forest in Utah. 



The Vegas National Forest includes 

 the area known locally as the Sheep 

 Mountains and is situated in south- 

 western Lincoln County, Nevada, and 

 has an area of approximately 195,- 

 840 acres. Nevada will now have 

 eight National Forests, with an aggre- 

 gate area of 2,528,479 acres. The 

 State's timber resources are light and 

 the creation of this forest will help 

 materially to insure a permanent tim- 

 ber supply. The creation was re- 

 quested in petitions and letters sent to 

 the Forest Service by Nevada citizens. 



Commercial species of trees in the 

 forest include yellow pine, juniper, 

 mountain mahogany, and pinion. The 

 best of the yellow pine averages about 

 5,000 feet per acre. Under adminis- 

 tration the land will be protected from 

 forest fires, theft and wasteful ex- 

 ploitation. The new forest will be in 

 charge of Harry E. Matthews, who is 

 also Acting Supervisor of the Charles- 

 ton Forest, with headquarters at Las 

 A^egas. So far as is possible Nevada 

 men will be chosen to assist him. 



The land added to the Aquarius 

 Forest, in south central Utah, ,1s 

 known as the Table Cliffs addition, 

 and is located in the southwestern part 

 of Garfield County. This territory is 

 a portion of the rim of Salt Lake ba- 

 sin, separating the drainage of the 

 Colorado River from that which flows 



northerly into the Great Basin. The 

 commercial forest consists of pure 

 yellow pine at the lower elevations, 

 while higher up is found this species 

 mixed with Engelmann spruce, Alpine 

 fir, foxtail pine and limber pines. 



Part of the land in the addition is 

 covered with forest growth of a non- 

 commercial type, which is chiefly val- 

 uable for conserving the flow of 

 streams used for irrigation of the fer- 

 tile lands along the Sevier Valley. 

 The village of Escalante receives one- 

 third of its water for municipal pur- 

 poses from this area. It is estimated 

 that 400 acres of land in Upper Po- 

 tato Valley and 600 acres around Es- 

 calante are irrigated by water from 

 the Table Cliffs country. The Aquar- 

 ius Forist is in charge of Supervisor 

 Geo. H. Barney, with headquarters at 

 Escalante. 



Farthest President Roosevelt has 



East National j^g^. signed a proclama- 

 tion creating a National 

 Forest in the west central part of the 

 State of Arkansas. This timbered 

 area, which covers more than 1,006,- 

 000 acres, will have the distinction of 

 being the farthest east of all of the 

 Government forests. This new forest, 

 which will be called the Arkansas, 

 brings the total area of the National 

 Forests up to 161,233,985 acres, a lit- 

 tle more than one-fifth of the country's 

 total forested area. 



The Arkansas National Forest is lo- 

 cated in the counties of Scott, Polk, 

 Montgomery, Yell, Logan, Perry, Sa- 

 line, and Garland. The most valuable 

 stands of timber in the forest are made 

 up of short leaf pine, red, white and 

 post oak, and a little black walnut and 

 cherry. The commercial timber varies 

 from 1,000 to 15,000 feet an acre. A 

 conservative estimate places the com- 

 mercial timber in the forest at one bil- 

 lion board feet, but it is thought prob- 

 able that the actual amount will over- 

 run this estimate by several hundred 

 million feet. 



Samuel J. Record, formerly of the 

 Office of Forest Management in the 



