of California, a total of fifty-two organizations having repre- 

 sentatives. 



(Signed) "Clarence E. Edwards of San Francisco, 



"H. H. Whitmore of Stanislaus County, 

 "WiLBER Walker of Alameda County, 

 "Geo. Henderson of Humboldt County, 

 "D. W, Coolidge of Los Angeles County, 



"Committee on Credentials." 



On motion, duly made, seconded and carried, the report was 

 adopted as read. 



G. B. Lull, State Forester, read a paper on the "Forestry Laws 

 of California." He reviewed the principal provisions of the laws 

 and their enforcement by the State Board of Forestry, under the 

 immediate direction of the State Forester and his two assistants. 

 The benefits of the policy of forest protection were pointed out 

 and suggestions made for a further broadening of the scope of 

 the work. Mr. Lull laid emphasis on the fact that more money 

 was needed to pay the salaries of the assistant foresters, who 

 should be technically trained men. 



Congressman Duncan E. McKinlay of the Second District 

 was asked to address the meeting, though not on the program. 

 He spoke of the formation of the Orland Irrigation District under 

 the reclamation law. He explained that fifteen thousand acres 

 of land had been set aside, no one person being permitted to hold 

 more than one hundred and sixty acres. He stated, further, that 

 the Secretary of the Interior had, on the report of the engineers 

 of the Geological Survey, assigned six hundred and fifty thousand 

 acres to the Orland Water Users' Association, and that a dam 

 would be built at Stoney Creek, fifteen miles from Orland. He 

 explained that the money would be paid back to the government 

 gradually and become a revolving fund : 



More than one hundred and ten million dollars' worth of 

 projects have been recommended by the government engineers, 

 and the United States is contemplating the expenditure of one 

 hundred million dollars at least in irrigation service. 



Last year the Goverrmient appropriated one hundred and forty 

 million dollars for the construction of a great canal between the 

 Atlantic and Pacific at the Isthmus of Panama. Each year more 

 and more money is being appropriated for irrigation. 



I can assure the gentlemen of this convention that the Cali- 

 fornia delegation, as a unit, are alive to this great question of 

 irrigation, and stand shoulder to shoulder to obtain appropria- 

 tions from the Federal Government. We have had it intimated 

 that if the people of Orland meet the requirements of the law 

 another apportionment will be given. 



9 



