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by storage reservoirs, which would catch 

 the surplus waters of the spring and 

 retain them until the summer months, 

 when the mills now have to fall back 

 on fuel or close down. 



The United States Geological Sur- 

 vey has kept records of stream flow in 

 the Appalachians for a number of 

 years and recently they made a care- 

 ful study of the possibilities of storage 

 reservoirs in that region. The Forest 

 Service has published their report un- 

 der the title "The Relation of the 

 Southern Appalachian Mountains to the 

 Development of Water Power," as 

 Forest Service Circular 144. and will 

 send it free to any one upon application. 

 The experts of the Geological Survey 

 who made the investigation, after pick- 

 ing out reservoir sites and estimating 

 their capacity and the area from which 

 they would receive the run-off, consider 

 the figures given above extremely con- 

 servative. Even with onlv one million 

 four hundred thousand horsepower, the 

 annual return at $20 per horsepower 

 per year would amount to $28,000,000. 

 That is equal to a gross income of 

 three per cent, on a capital of about 

 $933,000,000. These figures seem to 

 justify a considerable outlay of money 

 to achieve the benefits promised. 



Forest Service Supply Depot at Ogden 



ARRANGEMENTS have been com- 

 pleted by the Forest Service for 

 a central supply depot to be established 

 at Ogden, Utah. Mr. A. M. Smith, 

 who has been property clerk of the For- 

 est Service at Washington for the past 

 year, began the organization of the of- 

 fice about the middle of June, and after 

 July I all National Forest supplies will 

 be distributed direct from Ogden. 

 The establishment of this supply de- 



pot at Ogden. a central point in the 

 West, is in accordance with the policy 

 of the Forest Service to do as much of 

 its work in the field as possible. It is 

 estimated that both time and money 

 will be saved by having the distribu- 

 ting point at Ogden instead of Wash- 

 ington. It is expected that Western pro- 

 ducers will meet the demands of the 

 depot and cooperate with the Service 

 in making the movement successful and 

 in expediting business. In keeping with 

 the same policy of the Service, a branch 

 of the ofiice of Engineering, which has 

 charge of the extensive permanent 

 works now under way on the National 

 Forests, has been established at Ogden. 



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Maps of the Grant's Pass Quadrangle 



ANEW sheet of the topographic at- 

 las of the United States, known as 

 the Grant's Pass (Oregon) sheet, has 

 been published by the United States 

 Geological Survey. The region cov- 

 ered by the map extends northward 

 from the Oregon-California line to 

 parallel forty-two degrees, thirty min- 

 utes, which is about five miles north of 

 Grant's Pass, and from the eastern bor- 

 der of range three W. to the eastern 

 third of range seven W., correspond- 

 ing to meridian 123 degrees to 123 de- 

 grees thirty minutes W. It shows 

 large portions of Rogue River Valley 

 and that of its tributary, the Applegate, 

 as well as the Siskiyou Forest Reserve. 

 The map is of interest in connection 

 with both forestry and irrigation, as 

 it clearly shows the relation between the 

 two in this part of Oregon. The broad 

 alluvial valleys lying iinmediately north 

 of the reserve contain many reservoir 

 sites, which may be utilized in tlie de- 

 velopment of irrigation and water 

 power. 



