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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



divided into three sections as follows: 

 The Division of Forest Management, with 

 Mr. Overton W. Price as chief ; the Di- 

 vision of Forest Investigations, in charge of 

 Mr. Geo. B. Sudworth, and the Division 

 of Reports and Records under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. Otto J. J. Luebkert. 



The present arrangement of the gov- 

 ernment forest service is a great improve- 

 ment over the old system, and permits of 

 a much more rapid and efficient handling 

 of all forest matters requiring the atten- 

 tion of the government. The entire work 



85,000 acres of hardwoods located in Ten- 

 nessee, and belonging to Senator George 

 Peabody Wetmore, of Rhode Island. The 

 investigation of the forest conditions of 

 Nebraska, mention of which is made in 

 Mr. Hall's article in this number, is also 

 being carried on by the Bureau. 



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Foresters in the The following resolution 

 Philippines. of the Philippine Com- 

 mission will be read with 

 interest by those interested in the science 



of the Bureau of Forestry is being pushed of forestry 



forward rapidly ; and the field work covers "Resolved, That authority be granted 



an unusually large amount of territory and Captain George P. Ahern, Ninth Infan- 



includes a number of interesting pieces of try, while in the United States, to visit the 



forest work. forest schools of Cornell, Yale and Bilt- 



Agents of the Bureau of Forestry are more for conference with professors, grad- 



collecting the data necessary for a work- uates, and students of those institutions; 



ing plan on a tract of 300,000 acres of 

 land in Maine, belonging to the Great 

 Northern Paper Company. Fully 150,- 

 000 acres of this tract will be covered 

 during the present year. In the Adiron- 

 dacks, New York, the work begun some 

 time ago is being continued and working 

 plans will be made for Townships, 5, 6, 

 and 41 of the State Forest Preserve. A 

 working plan for Township 40 of this 

 Preserve was completed during the past 

 year and recently published as Bulletin 30 

 of the Division of Forestry. Lumbering 

 in the Adirondacks is being' carried on 

 upon Dr. Seward Webb's estate at Ne- 

 hasane, and upon Mr. William C. Whit- 

 ney's estate around Little Tupper Lake, 

 under the supervision of the Bureau. 



In Michigan a working plan will be 

 made for the tract of the Cleveland Cliffs 

 Iron Company, 10,000 acres, on Grand 

 Island; in Arizona a working plan is in 

 progress for the Prescott Forest Reserve ; 

 in Idaho a working plan for the Priest 

 River Forest Reserve; in Wyoming a 

 working plan for the Big Horn Forest 

 Reserve. A working plan for the Black 

 Hills Reserve in South Dakota is prac- 

 tically finished. In addition to the fore- 

 going work the Bureau is making a study 

 of the Sugar Pine, in northern California; 

 there is also a large field party engaged 

 in making a working plan for a tract of 



that he be allowed his actual and neces- 

 sary traveling expenses from Philadelphia 

 or New York while visiting these three 

 schools, and that he be authorized to em- 

 ploy three additional inspectors for the 

 Philippine Forestry Bureau, at the salary 

 of $150 gold per month, who shall he 

 graduates of some duly accredited forest 

 school, and three additional foresters at 

 the salary of $200 gold per month, who 

 shall be graduates from some duly ac- 

 credited forest school and shall have had 

 practical field experience." 



All applications for service should he 

 addressed to Capt. Ahern, Bureau of for- 

 estry, Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. None but graduates of 

 recognized forest schools need apply. 



The Civil Service examination at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, will be necessary before an 

 applicant will be received into the service. 



Trans-Missis- 

 sippi Con- 

 gress. 



The twelfth annual ses- 

 sion of the Trans-Missis- 

 sippi Commercial Con- 

 gress was held at Cripple 

 Creek, Col., July [6-19, with delega 

 present from all of the twenty-three states 

 and territories having membership in the 

 organization. There were many plans dis- 

 cussed whose object was the early and rapid 

 development of the trans-Mississippi sec- 



