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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



slopes are heavily timbered with Doug- 

 las fir, western yellow pine, and Engel- 

 mann spruce. 



These timbered mountains are bless- 

 ings to the people of the territory in 

 more ways than one. Streams in which 

 the flow is regulated by the forests run 

 down into the desert where every drop 

 of water is used for irrigation. The 

 forests also supply the people of the re- 

 gion with material for building their 

 houses, for fencing, and with timber. 



The timbered portion of Mt. Graham 

 is in a National Forest. This means 

 that the timber can be used, but cannot 

 be abused. ,For example, the Govern- 

 ment has sold to the Alt. Graham Lum- 

 ber Company, the timber on an area 

 which is estimated to yield 950,000 

 board feet, and the company is now 

 cutting and sawing it and supplying the 

 agricultural community in the valley of 

 the Gila River with lumber, and the 

 mines of the Globe mining district with 

 timbers. 



The company's mill is high up on the 

 mountain side in a little opening in the 

 dense timber. Here, one and a half 

 miles above sea level, the logs are sawed 

 into lumber and a flume seven and one 

 half miles long carries the sawed lum- 

 ber down through the rough canyon of 

 Ash Creek to the base of the mountain 

 where it can be hauled direct to the 

 ranches where it is to be used, or 

 loaded on cars and shipped to the 

 mines. A flume in Arizona seems out 

 of place, but there is plenty of water on 

 Mt. Graham with which to operate it, 

 and there always will be, for the Forest 

 officers allow only carefully selected 

 trees to be cut. and there will always 

 be a good forest cover on the mountain, 

 which will protect the stream flow and 

 supply tin-.ber for the future. 



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Soldiers Extinguish Fire in Arizona 

 National Forest 



A STORY of prompt action in sup- 

 ■^^- pressing a dangerous fire in the 

 Garces National Forest, Ariz., is told 

 in the three following dispatches which 



passed between Supervisor Roscoe G. 

 Willson, of the Garces National For- 

 est. Ariz., and Clyde Leavitt, chief 

 of the office of organization, United 

 States Forest Service, at Washington. 

 Cooperation between the different 

 branches of the Government in admin- 

 istering and protecting the public forest 

 domain is one of the means by which 

 the tremendous annual fire losses have 

 been made a thing of the past. 



"Nogales, Ariz.. July 5, 1908. 

 "Forester, Washington, D. C. 



"Fire in Tanner Canyon, Huachuca. 

 Forest. Assistance troops requested 

 post commandant Fort Huachuca. 



"Willson." 



"Washington. July 6. 1908. 

 "Willson Nogales, Ariz. 



"War Department states Command- 

 ant Fort Huachuca instructed furnish 

 all possible assistance extinguish Tan- 

 ner Canyon fire. 



"Leavitt.'' 



"Nogales, Ariz., July 7, 1908. 

 "Forester. Washington. D. C. 



"Commandant Fort Huachuca wires 

 me fire extinguished by soldiers. 



"Willson.'" 



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Insure Timber Supply for Montana's Mines 



IT IS an old story in Montana that 

 the first information in regard to the 

 Butte copper mines was a message to 

 Marcus Daly, which read, "Cattle on the 

 hills are looking well." The mines have 

 more than justified this message, and 

 to-day Butte is known as the greatest 

 copper-producing town in the United 

 States, if not in the whole world. The 

 streets of Butte to-day are alive with 

 teams hauling ore from the mines to 

 the railroad, and timber from the rail- 

 road to the mines, for a mine produces a 

 vacancv made by removal which must 

 be partially filled with timber or the 

 mine will cave in, and cannot be 

 worked. 



Butte uses 200,000 mining stulls an- 

 nuallv. -A.bout three-fourths of this 



