IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 



The American Forestry Associa- 

 tion has recently written its members, 

 urging their aid in securing what an 

 enthusiastic member calls "short term 

 educational subscriptions" to Forestry 

 AND Irrigation — i.e., six months' sub- 

 scriptions, at the rate of 25 cents each. 

 The responses daily pouring into its 

 offices have far exceeded its expec- 

 tations. Members thus co-operating 

 are cordially thanked, while those who 

 have not replied are urged to do so. 



As announced, the current issue of 

 Forestry and Irrigation is devoted 

 to a report of the White House Con- 

 ference. To find space, the size of 

 type used has been reduced, and the 

 number of pages increased twenty- 

 five per cent. 



That none desiring it may fail to 

 receive a copy of this report, the forms 

 are being held, that another edition 



of the magazine may, if needed, be 

 run oiT. 



Trial subscribers should, in every 

 case, receive the June number. Mem- 

 bers, therefore, intending to comply 

 with the request made of them in the 

 letter above referred to, should act 

 promptly. 



Numbers soon to follow will treat 

 of inland waterways, drainage, water- 

 power, reclamation of arid lands, and 

 other questions connected with the 

 conservation of natural resources. In 

 pushing its educational propaganda, 

 the Association desires to avail itself 

 fully of the deep and widespread in- 

 terest aroused by the Governors' Con- 

 ference. Members willing to aid its 

 work can find no better time and no 

 greater opportunity than that afforded 

 by the great gathering so recently ad- 

 journed. Let the orders come. 



THE DRAINAGE CONGRESS 



THE friends of Federal aid to drain- ware. Hon. William Jennings Bryan 



age have every reason to feel en 

 couraged at the meeting held by the 

 National Drainage Association in 

 Washington on May 12 and 13. While 

 the Congress was not so largely at- 

 tended as had been hoped, this is ac- 



volunteered a most excellent talk, in 

 which he assured the audience of his 

 thorough belief in the cause of Fed- 

 eral aid through the reclamation of 

 overflowed and swamp lands- 



Under the call of states, every dele- 



counted for by the Conference of the gate was emphatic as to the absolute 



Governors, at the White House, and necessity, both from a commercial and 



by other gatherings of scientific and a sanitary standpoint, for prompt ac- 



professional men in the Capitol at the tion by Congress in this great work 



same time. ~ of internal improvement. There was 



The several sessions were replete a slight diversity of opinion as to the 



with general interest ; some of the most best methods of obtaining Congres- 



pronounced advocates of Federal aid sional action ; however, eleven-twelfths 



to drainage appeared before the Con- of all present were in favor of a bill 



gress, and in no uncertain terms gave such as has been formulated by the 



assurance to the members of their Secretary of the Interior, and which 



thorough conviction that the cause will is known as the Flint Bill, 

 ultimately triumph. At all periods of the Congress the 



Among those speaking were Sen- iitmost harmony prevailed. Every 

 ator Clapp, of Alinnesota, Senator delegate realized that the cause of Fed- 

 Newlands, of Nevada, Representative eral aid to drainage had made remark- 

 Nelson Steenerson, of Minnesota, and able strides since the first meeting at 

 Representative H. R. Burton, of Dela- Oklahoma City, in December, 1906. 



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