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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



several feet and furnish sufficient water 

 for the land owned by the Palouse Irri- 

 gation and Power Company. The lake 

 is ten miles in length and from one-half 

 to three-quarters of a mile in width. 

 This work will be done next year. The 

 company owns the water rights on the 

 Palouse River and on Rock Creek and 

 Rock Lake. 



At the point where the main canal 

 taps the Palouse River a dam one hun- 

 dred feet in length has been built at a 

 cost of $14,000. This will divert prac- 

 tically all of the flow of the river into 

 the canal during the minimum flow, 

 if it is needed. The dam is solid con- 

 crete, its foundation resting on the solid 

 rock in the bed of the river. 



In taking the water from the river 

 it has been necessary to tunnel seventy 

 feet through the solid rock, and at that 

 point the flood gates are established, 

 keeping the water under perfect con- 

 trol. During certain months of the year 

 enough water rushes down the channel 

 of the Palouse to water one hundred 

 thousand acres. 



Three railroads will operate through 

 the district, and of these the Oregon 

 Railroad and Navigation Company is 

 hauling traffic. The others are the Spo- 

 kane, Portland & Seattle, and the North 

 Coast Railway. Grading will be com- 

 pleted on the Spokane. Portland & Se- 

 attle by June i , and trains will probably 

 be in operation by the end of the year. 



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American Irrigation Scheme 



ONE hundred thousand dollars will 

 be expended by D. K. McDonald 

 and A. C. Jamieson, of Spokane, in in- 

 stalling an irrigation plant and domestic 

 water system on one thousand acres of 

 land in the Spokane Valley, five and a 

 half miles east of here. Two wells with 

 a combined capacity of eight thousand 

 gallons a minute will be bored, and water 

 for irrigating land will be distributed by 

 means of ditches and flumes. The 

 pumps will be driven by electrical 

 power, the cost of this apparatus being 

 $10,000. The land will cost $100,000, 

 and it is expected to have it in readiness 



for next spring. Electric lights, tele- 

 phones, and other conveniences will be 

 installed. 



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More Resolutions 



HE following resolutions were 

 adopted by the Faculty of the 

 School of Agriculture, of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, at a meeting held 

 recently : 



Whereas, The great natural re- 

 sources of this and other states in the 

 Appalachian region are being exhaust- 

 ed rapidly for the purpose of immedi- 

 ate development and profit without 

 proper regard for the future agricul- 

 tural possibilities of this State ; and 



Whereas, Investigations of the United 

 States Forest Service have shown that 

 the destruction of the forest cover on 

 our mountains and hills has not only 

 destroyed in large part the lumber in- 

 dustry of the East, and seriously in- 

 jured mining and manufacturing indus- 

 tries which are dependent upon a regu- 

 lar and permanent supply of timber, but 

 have_ also shown that the wholesale 

 clearing of forests from the watersheds 

 of streams rising in the Appalachian 

 Mountains has resulted in tremendous 

 and irrepairable damage to farms and 

 orchards along these streams. The ero- 

 sive action of freshets and floods has 

 seriously injured agricultural land upon 

 steep hillsides, and by the covering of 

 bottom lands with gravel and other de- 

 bris has rendered lands valueless for 

 farming purposes. It has been shown 

 that with a forest cover at the head 

 waters of the streams and upon steep 

 mountain sides the very disastrous 

 floods of recent years could not have 

 occurred. Therefore, be it 



Resolved. That the Faculty of the 

 School of Agriculture of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College recommend the in- 

 crease of forest ownership and control 

 by the National Government, and to 

 further this movement recommends the 

 earl}' establishment of the proposed Ap- 

 palachian-White Mountain Reserves. 

 And be it further 



