1899. 



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forestry question is one that should be 

 seriously considered by lumbermen; that 

 when as a class they did take the matter 

 up it would be well taken care of. 



In the March number of The Irrigation 

 Age there appeared a paper on "The 

 Irrigation Problems and Possibilities of 

 Northern Wyoming," by Capt. H. M. 

 Chittenden, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 

 The purpose of Captain Chittenden in 



in the Bighorn Mountains under the patronage, 

 I believe, of the Burlington Railroad. It may 

 have been the surpassing beauty and sublimity 

 of the scenery around Cloud Peak Lake, which 

 I had seen but a week before, that caused th's 

 much-advertised spot to appear altogether tame 

 in comparison. More probably, however, it 

 was the desolate appea r ance of the surrounding 

 country, which is almost divested of the noble 

 forests that once covered it. Here indeed is 

 an impressive example of the ruin that has 

 spread over many fores^ areas of the West. It 

 alone is sufficient to convince any believer in 

 the necessity of preserving our forests, that 



LOGGING SCENE IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 



making a tour through Wyoming in the 

 months of August and September, 1897, 

 was to investigate the question of the 

 construction of reservoirs in the arid 

 regions through the agency of the Gen- 

 eral Government. As a close observer 

 he does not fail to note the importance 

 of forest preservation in the region in- 

 cluded in his professional investigation. 

 Of the effects of forest destruction he 

 writes: 



On our second day out from Sheridan we 

 visited Dome Lake, a nascent summer resort 



prompt and vigorous measures ought to be 

 taken by the Government to save what remains 

 and to restore what has been lost. 



In this connection I may mention a matter 

 which came to my attention about a week be- 

 fore. I made a short excursion from Buffalo, 

 up the valley of Clear Creek to the old military 

 reservation of Fort McKinney, where I had 

 spent some time nine years before surveying 

 its boundaries I passed through the aban- 

 doned pos f , now the property of the State of 

 Wyoming. The perfect state of preservation 

 and the neat appearance of everything spoke 

 highly for the care with which this piece of 

 property is being preserved. But I imagine 

 that the State is at a loss to know what to do 



