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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FOREST SERVICE MAN SELECTED AS CITY 

 MANAGER OF ALBUQUERQUE 



TN selecting a man to serve as its manager, the city of 

 * Albuquerque, New Mexico, reached into the Forest 

 Service and picked out Paul G. Redington, who has 

 recently held the position of district forester of the 

 Southwestern National Forest District. 



Mr. Redington was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 

 -;. 1878, and gained his early education in the public 

 and high school of Evanston, Illinois. He was graduat- 



PAUL 0. REDINGTON, WHO LEAVES THE FOREST SERVICE TO 

 BECOME CITY MANAGER OF ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 



cd from Dartmouth College in lyoo with the degree of 

 bachelor of arts, and after two years in the employ of a 

 large Chicago concern he entered the Yale Forest School, 

 graduating in 190*4 with the degree of master of forestry. 

 He then entered the Forest Service of the United States 

 and gradually won promotion through the various grades, 

 including that of supervisor of the Sierra National For- 

 est. The distinction of his selection as City Manager 

 of Albuquerque is an honor well deserved. 



BLASTING STUMPS NEAR BUILDINGS 



BY JOHN N. LEWIS 



'T'HE accompanying view shows the stump prepared 

 for the blast. It will be noted that it has been heav- 

 ily covered with cedar boughs to prevent flying pieces 

 from breaking windows of the house nearby. 



When blasting is done near buildings it is important 

 that the blaster should know how to load the charge so 

 that the main body of the stump will be thrown away 

 from the building rather than toward it. To accomplish 

 this, the charge should be placed on the side of the stump 

 nearest the building. It is not good practice to load a 

 charge under one side of a stump, but much better to 

 center the charge under it. When a charge is centered it 

 usually splits the stump into several pieces, which are 

 likely to be thrown in several directions. When loading 

 this way it is advisable to have the charge two and one- 

 half or three feet in the ground under the stump. 



T^ R. BARNES, of St. Louis, who entered the Twenti- 

 L eth Engineers (Forest) as a captain, was recently 

 promoted to major in the regiment. 



HOW TO BLAST SAFELY NEAR HOME 



By observing a few simple rules, blasting may be done with perfect 

 safety, as in this case, where the stump blasted was within thirty-five 

 feet of the house. 



The stump shown in this picture was within thirty-five 

 feet of the bay window of the house. This window was 

 not injured and no dirt was even thrown upon the white 

 clothes shown on the clothes line. I find it advisable to 

 raise the windows about two inches before blasting to 

 prevent their being broken by the jar or shock of the 

 explosion. 



The stumps that were taken out were sixteen and 

 twenty inches, respectively, in diameter; both were sur- 

 face-rooted. Three and one-quarter pounds of 40 per 

 cent dynamite, six feet of fuse and two blasting caps 

 were used on the job. These cost about 70 cents. 



