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,, ^. Mrs. W. I. Higgins, Another At Prineville, Illinois, a 



State"Tr°ee Chairman of Forestry f^^^'^^^^^ wealthy citizen has given 



Committee, Montana forty acres of woodland 



Federation of Women's Clubs, writes to the town, and it is to be used in na- 



that Arbor Day in that State has been ture study for the school children. It 



changed this year to the third Tues- will be developed and administered 



day in April, which is an improvement as a public property, 

 on the former date, being more suit- 

 able to planting conditions and school 



^vork. Immense The streams whose 



She says that this spring the school Wat^r^Powers ^^^adwaters lie among 

 children are going to vote on a State the peaks of the South- 

 tree. This vote will take place on Ar- ern Appalachians, flowing westward 

 bor Da^^ to the Mississippi or eastward to the 



The literature which they expect to Atlantic, furnish opportunities for the 



receive from the Forest Service will development of water power so won- 



be distributed by the County Superin- derful that the meagerness of their 



tendents to the teachers ; then the chil- present use for this purpose is little 



dren will make an investigation of the less than marvelous, 



trees and vote for their choice. This Engineers of the United States 



is one way of teaching the oncoming Geological Survey, after making a 



generation about trees. careful study of the streams, the 



quantity of water they carry, and 

 Maine The Forestry Committee their fall in various portions of their 

 Women's q£ |-^g Maine Federation courses, have estimated that they af- 

 Clubs ^^ Women's Clubs urges ford a minimum of about 2,800,000 

 that every club in Alaine give this year horsepower ; at least 50 per cent of 

 one program, or at least a part of a which, or 1,400,000 horsepower, is 

 program, to that most important sub- available for economic development, 

 ject, forestry. It urges them to ar- These figures, it should be noted, rep- 

 range a forestry exhibit, to observe resent the minimum horsepower. If 

 Arbor Day, and otherwise promote the flood waters could be stored and 

 public sentiment in favor of forestry, the flow of the streams properly regu- 

 and to call attention to the White lated, the minumum power available 

 Mountain-Appalachian forest propo- for economic development might be 

 sition. It asks also that the club wo- increased from three to fifteen times, 

 men join the Maine Forestry Asso- ^j^^ estimates of the engineers of 

 ciation. ^ ^ ^]^g Survey are based on the present 



At the midwinter meeting of the condition of the drainage area, but if 



federation at Lewiston it was unani- ^^^ ^^^^^ ^f ^^^ ^^pj^^^^ ^^^^ is ^^^_ 



mously voted to support a movement ^j^^^^^^ ^^^ available power will.be 



to make Mt. Katahdin and the adjoin- largely reduced. Not the height of 



ing region a State forest reserve. ^^^ ^^^^^^ but the length and depres- 

 sion of the low-water season, govern 



New_ Concurrently with the the power that any stream will yield. 



Mexico Sixteenth National Irri- The more uniform the flow of a riv- 



Industry gation Congress, to be er, the greater its value for power, as 



held at Albuquerque, N. M., Septem- for all other purposes ; and this uni- 



ber 29 to October 3, 1908, the people formity is dependent solely on the 



of New Mexico will hold a State In- condition of the land surfaces. An 



dustrial Exposition. The congress upland bared of forests discharges its 



alone would furnish a large attendance rain so quickly that in dry seasons 



for an exposition if all the delegates there is no water left in the ground to 



should attend the show. supply a flow. 



